Re: The Unified Research Foundation of Alternative
Marinus Berghuis ( renkahu@ihug.co.nz )
Wed, 06 Jan 1999 21:05:59 +1300
>Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 19:26:42 +1300
>To: John Berry <antigrav@ihug.co.nz>
>From: Marinus Berghuis <renkahu@ihug.co.nz>
>Subject: Re: The Unified Research Foundation of Alternative
>In-Reply-To: <3692A267.AC7ECC62@ihug.co.nz>
>
>At 12:38 6/01/99 +1300, you wrote:
>>Ok, We've got 7 now offical members of the "Unified Research Foundation
>>of Alternative Physics"
>>
>>John Berry
>>Marinus Berghuis
>>Nigel Howie
>>Nick Field
>>Thomas Mccoy
>>Dusy Rhodes
>>Manfred Boller
>>
>
>John,
>
>The group has to be formed up into a shareholding company as mentioned
before.
>This does not have to be done with lawyers (God forbid).
>It can be an incorporated society or a partnership sharing information on
a regular basis, duly signed up with a simple document witnessed by a
Justice of the Peace.
>Initially, because of the distances involved between individual members,
different times etc, I envisage the group to share their know how and
experience by assisting each other by studying problems found after having
been informed by the experimenter.
>It would help a great deal if the group could actually select an item say
Joe's cell and all of them give their full attention to every detail.
>The member with the lathe,ability to manufacture does so as before but has
the use of the brains trust when snags are found.Not with a letter on the
Keely net that may or may not be looked at with all the irrelevant trash
accompanying same, but to a group that has given a pledge to study the
problem in depth.
>Someone in the group is bound to be a theorist and others like to tinker
with motor cars or engines.
>I have tried two obtain patents for some quite simple ideas and got them
written up (Lawyers cost $ 750.00 each) To find that the actual setting up
of the thing to manufacture was out of this world, so the idea collapsed
for the want of funds.
>Unless you can interest some capitalist to underwrite the thing,which in
many cases is extremely difficult because inventers are usually regarded as
crackpots anyway and capitalists are never or very seldom indeed
philantropists. One of my best friends has more money than he will ever
need but when it comes to parting with it the interest payments kill
everything before it starts.
>You look at most patents and you will find the same thing.
>The latest I read about is a rotary engine in Australia, no valves, camshaft
>and only three moving parts. Supposedly burns super efficient, toxin free
and the automotive industry is not interested! So the man has worked for 10
years to get his idea off the ground to find he has to start selling
locally small versions to farmers for their pumps to gather capital for
further models.
> This is crazy and that is where the foundation would shine.
>As a shareholding partnership, the foundation can raise funds to
manufacture without much difficulty and even obtain research grants from
various scources if it was set up as a non profit organisation.
>Once a project has been completed to it's conclusion, the foundation
obtains the patent and works it to it's maximum profit potential.
>From then on shareholders become paid researchers and so obtain a reward
financially.
>
>This of course needs the luxury of trust but without it nothing will work
and as duly signed up members of the foundation, you could never be done
out of your share or your heirs for that matter.
>
>I can see where some Keely net experimenters come from but I was surprised
to hear Jerry Decker has some 35 years of been there and done that so we
have to break the cycle of futility and make the group experimenters pull
out all stops because now they have a certain goal and they will know with
certainty that a worthwhile idea is going to be succesful in more ways than
one !
>If an experimenter want the kudos, you can always call the patent by his
name providing it was his idea first !! But it will belong to the
Foundation.!!
>
>My view is you can never take anything with you when you die so why try to
amass idotic fortunes which does nothing else but rob the manual worker of
his just rewards.
>
>My view for what it is worth and feel free to pass it on.
>
>Ren