[geo] Re: patenting ideas
Anyone with a geoengineering idea that seems potentially viable and commecially valuable and who wishes to get funded by someone who has commercial interest should not be discussing those ideas in this forum. They are essentially published here and therefore anyone (first to file) can get a patent worldwide but for the U.S. where first to invent is the 'inventor'. In any case if you you do have an idea write it up in a bound notebook with numbered pages, initial each page, sign and date at the end and get it witnessed. That is the means to prove first to invent. You can file a USPTO provisional patent to get the process started for a nominal fee. If you have no commercial interest but think the idea has commercial value find someone who does; like the organization you are affiliated with for example, and establish some plan to seek funding. If you have any questions feel free. I do not need to know details. -gene -Original Message- From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com [mailto:geoengineer...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Lockley Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:41 PM To: Geoengineering Subject: [geo] patenting ideas I am interested to know if people think we should look to patent geoengineering ideas? Without a patent, it may be very hard to attract RD funding. I know there's a patent on Fake Plastic Trees, but I don't know of any other patents for geoeng technology. A --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups geoengineering group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[geo] DVD Alert!
Discovery Project Earth, all episodes re-airing today on the Science Channel right now. In case you forgot, an 8-part series examining 7 different geoengineering technologies. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups geoengineering group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[geo] stepping back to remember what it's all about...
Dear all, I thought you'd appreciate my holiday post on Dot Earth -- http://tinyurl.com/dotEarthrise -- which affords a fresh look at that remarkable view a few lucky astronauts have gotten of Earth rising over the sterile horizon of the Moon. If you haven't seen the Japanese VIDEO version of Earthrise (and Earthset) -- shot last year from Kaguya satellite -- you really owe it to yourself to click. Make sure to click on watch in high quality on YouTube for the best 'view.' I added the voices of the Apollo 8 astronauts and music by one of my Uncle Wade bandmates. Would love comments, thoughts from you on the blog. Best wishes for 2009 and well beyond. Andy -- Andrew C. Revkin The New York Times / Science 620 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10018 Tel: 212-556-7326 Mob: 914-441-5556 Fax: 509-357-0965 www.nytimes.com/revkin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups geoengineering group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[geo] Re: stepping back to remember what it's all about...
Dear all, The Earth is very impressive - and we are priveleged to live on it, at a time when it provides us a benign environment, partly of our own making. This is personally how I see it... Although the Earth appears as a stable system, it has been through various crises, with five mass extinction events because of marked changes to the environment, eventually leading to a series of ice ages and us. During these ice ages, the temperature has been oscillating wildly between limits. The upper limit seems to have been controlled by the Arctic sea ice, acting as a thermostat - when it was getting hotter globally, an increasing proportion of sea ice would give way to water, the whole Arctic region would heat, but then meltwater would flow into the NorthWest Atlantic and turn off the Gulf Stream to cool the Arctic region and allow the sea ice to reform to cool the region. We have remained at near this upper limit of temperature oscillation for at least 8000 years. If mankind had not cut down forests, ten thousand years ago, and initiated some global warming, we would almost certainly be in an ice age now. Instead we are into the Anthropocene, where climate is to some extent controlled by our own behaviour. In the past century we have injected a huge pulse of CO2 into the atmosphere. This threatens to melt the Arctic sea ice completely, which has never happened between previous ice ages. Thus we are about to destroy the thermostat for the global climate, letting the temperature climb through the roof, and creating the 6th great mass extinction event. Mankind has survived many glaciations - some say it is how we have involved our intellegence. We now have to apply our intellegence to get out of the new situation we find ourselves in. Let us hope that this intellegence will prevail to find a way in 2009 to save the Arctic sea ice. Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year, John - Original Message - From: Andrew Revkin anr...@nytimes.com To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 6:14 PM Subject: [geo] stepping back to remember what it's all about... Dear all, I thought you'd appreciate my holiday post on Dot Earth -- http://tinyurl.com/dotEarthrise -- which affords a fresh look at that remarkable view a few lucky astronauts have gotten of Earth rising over the sterile horizon of the Moon. If you haven't seen the Japanese VIDEO version of Earthrise (and Earthset) -- shot last year from Kaguya satellite -- you really owe it to yourself to click. Make sure to click on watch in high quality on YouTube for the best 'view.' I added the voices of the Apollo 8 astronauts and music by one of my Uncle Wade bandmates. Would love comments, thoughts from you on the blog. Best wishes for 2009 and well beyond. Andy -- Andrew C. Revkin The New York Times / Science 620 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10018 Tel: 212-556-7326 Mob: 914-441-5556 Fax: 509-357-0965 www.nytimes.com/revkin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups geoengineering group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
