Blank ----- Original Message ----- From: RC Macaulay Subject: uoting from the Re: Ed's Storms hope
Mike Carrell wrote.. >MC: Jed Rothwell has been beating this drum for years, lamenting that as each year passes without measurable progress thousands suffer and die in Africa and other developing countries. And he is right, so far. Jed wrote a book and posted it for download on lenr-canr website, portraying a rosy future CF world. He hopes to ignite a popular demand for this. > The simple, brutal fact with respect to CF is that there is no visible device which is ready for prime time [scale-up, packaging, promotion, etc.]. I say visible because there may be developments which are **not** being discussed because there is no patent protection to compensate investors in commercial enterprises. CF in principle could provide the energy to reduce manufactured objects to concentrated, pure elements. CF could supply the energy necessary to support all the collection programs, local and national. All this, without adding to global warming or pollution. But not yet. There is no sure path forward yet visible. >MC: I repeat. BlackLight Power is making all the noises and signals of an enterprise getting ready to get out of the egg stage >BlackLight Power’s commercialization strategy is to nonexclusively license joint-venture companies (JVS) to develop, make, use, or sell its patented and patent-pending technology in any field any where in the world. These independent JVCs will invest the capital and time to develop commercial applications of the BlackLight Process. New patented technologies resulting from development of commercial products or processes by the JVC will be the property of the JVC. New patented technologies developed by BlackLight after the purchase of a license will be added to the original license. The license agreements will be offered for an annual maintenance fee and a minority equity position in the licensed, JVC. Companies with relevant capabilities or interest in developing new products or valuable new patented technology will require a license and are encouraged to contact us. Richard writes.. Mike..thoughtful comments. Black Light Power has put a viable " package " together and sustained it for some 15 years which is saying something for an enterprise principally in the business of selling ideas to investors. Over that same period of time (15 years) ,one small manufacturing company I know of, designed and built a series of technically sophisicated products with the beginning capital derived from the monthly charitable gift awarded social security retirees. From that base , as the venture grew, the research budget rose to a paltry 350k per year ( 30,000 per month). This tiny company now leads in their market category and has obsoleted an entire segment of the existing methodology in it's industry category dominated by two large world renowned corporations.. The company is privately owned and never once operated in the red. This tiny company holds no patents, has no intellectual property and has no protection from another company that may wish to"copy" the product designs. The thinking being that a patent is an invitation to a lawsuit. A trademark and a copyright holds more weight. The secret is in the "name" and not in the patented product. I once knew a guy with a wonderful idea of raising bullfrogs in a pond under a natural gas flare. The business model demonstrated a frog lays umteen millions eggs, from that the math get fuzzy but the gist is that one can harvest a million frog legs a month at a dollar a dozen. He tried to liscense the idea to me on a royalty base plus cash. When asked why he didn't take the idea and run with it for that kind of profit, his reply was that he was too busy with his job at the carwash. The business plan of BLP is an interesting study of the corresponding and divergent views of different business models. I wish them success because ,if they have the product they represent as having ,the world is going to steal them blind by their using the marketing approach they have embarked upon. Richard Mike replies: Also thoughtful comments, as are Jed's, who continues to advocate disclosure and run like hell to keep ahead of the competition. All of these may be right for different situations. There are many instances -- hula hoops, tiger tails, etc., where the essence is run fast with skillful publicity. BLP has a technology of great potential, but implementing it on a commercial scale in competition with existing infrastructure will take lots of R&D. It is quite possible that once the right demo or device is built so that it becomes "real" in a public sense, there will be a stampede of similar developments as there was withe IC engine and incandescent lamp. I sense that these copiers will soon find that the performance they can get will be inferior to that of BLP licensees, who will have the benefit of years of know-how. They will also find that most of the devices they build will be covered by BLP patents and a fee will be required. Patents run out, know-how diffuses, and mankind can benefit immensly. Meanwhile BLP and the original investors will be properly wealthy as are the early participants in Microsoft, etc. Mike Carrell
