RE: (ET) Re: Any Takers/scams

Life isn't easy. Neither is invention.

My first experience in patents was 1977. I tried patenting an evacuated vacuum window on my own. Yes, I built and tested them. I paid attorneys well over $1,000

in 1977 cash, which for recent college grad was big bucks. I gave up. I had a good idea. I had innovation. I had inspiration. I believed that stupid adage; "If you

build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door." I was naive. I couldn't even get an energy grant! If you do great things, you have to make sure

someone making minor changes to your things can't patent something better based on your work. THAT'S what invention is today.

I now have at last count about a dozen full patents, and the lawyers tell me I have 41 in the works. I'm not rich. Ford sold 6 of mine to a university in 2003 for

several million. I got $500 each. I'm not bitter. But I am wiser. MOST (a hundred?) of my best inventions were already patented. Some 80 years ago! The

idea that; "My great idea will make me rich!" is VERY naive. Yes, I even have one disclosure on a very efficient motor controller (not issued yet) but I guarantee

the money is with the people who are willing to make the investment, not the inventor.... unless the investor wants to get some P.R. by touting the inventor. Edison

said invention was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, and it feels like that sometimes, but without the 1% the 99% won't get you anywhere. I'm glad to get the

1% once in a while. BTW, someone else said it's 1% inspiration, 10% perspiration and 89% desperation, and I've been there too!

Larry Elie

-----Original Message-----
From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu [mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu]On Behalf Of Dan Conine
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 9:52 AM
To: Bfayette aol com
Cc: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: (ET) Re: Any Takers/scams

There's always a pissant.

Yes, writers shouldn't get paid for books. They get paid for stories. When they are written. They should not get paid for manufacturing a million books.

Supply/demand economics is bunk. Production is not the purpose of life. Creation is. Look it up. In the Bible if you choose that blind faith type of answer.

Jesus doesn't get paid for every one of those that's printed, yet he is the most famous of all idea men.

Dan

Bfayette aol com wrote:

Oh, I get it.  Writers shouldn't be paid for books.  Only the printer.



In a message dated 2/4/2005 8:18:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, Dan Conine <dconine dotnet com> writes:

Having worked for an inventor, and too late realizing that everyone has 
the same obvious ideas, I say don't buy it. As your idea shows, the 
people all around us will come up with good quality ideas and most of 
them would be insulted if you handed them money every time they pointed 
out a simple solution to a problem.

The idea that ideas are worth money is the scam. Your good work is worth 
money. If someone builds something for you, then they should get paid. 
If they just come up with 'ideas', then they should show you the 
product. Ideas are like armpits; no matter how bad it smells, there is 
probably another one just like it, and someone else will have two more.

Net creativity. If you think hard and come up with an idea, then you are 
just burning up energy and not creating something for the universe to 
use. If you build it or grow it, then you've done something that will be 
useful in the future (hopefully).

Everything else is overhead.

Dan Conine

P.S. Join the Pitchfork Party today!  Don't do business with anyone you 
can't reach with your pitchfork. Buy less, buy local, buy only what you 
need. Peak Oil is coming and it isn't going to be pretty.

looking for a glider.  FWIW, It also turns up this page:

http://www.solarandwind.com/contact.htm

Wild guess: he's built a mechanical PWM device, using a modified commutator from a 
starter motor, driven by another motor.  Envision a commutator where the segments 
are cut into triangles, so at one end of the com the segments are close together, and 
at the other they're far apart.  With something like this, the commutator is just a big 
switch.  You spin it and vary the duty cycle by moving the brushes fore and aft. 

The idea is an old one;

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