someone stole my blimpmill idea!
someone stole my blimpmill idea!
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), I described an idea for a new way to produce power. The idea was a blimp filled with helium with a tether long enough for it to sit in the jet stream. There would be windmills attached to it to convert the wind energy into electricity. Here is a highly scientific diagram from the newsletter, published on January 25th, 2005:
At the time I thought it might work, but I probably didn’t have the resources to build it. Just recently however, I came across this:
You can read more about it
here
. As you can clearly see, they stole my idea. Sure they came up with a more efficient design by making the blimp itself into the turbine, but I think if I talked to enough of my smart friends they could have helped me figure it out.
Everyone told me I was crazy at the time, but clearly I was crazy like fox!
post and comments imported from Xanga - vikas
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aw drat!
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Wow, that has got to be rough. Are you going to persue any legal action against the perpetrators?
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Time to bust out the lawsuits?
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-nah, i’ve dealt with enough lawyers already. i do hope the idea works though! -
