I talked to Larry Lewis yesterday. He offered some advice on my invention and its so simple.
Install several of them free of charge.
Have those people monitor it.
Those will be my Beta Sites where I can work the bugs.
Next, start a business and advertise.
Install the things myself until there's enough business to hire on more people.
If the business is successful, I should be able to sell it and make a fortune.
It seems to me that should have been an obvious formula for success. It just didn't occur to me.
McDonalds, Starbucks, Mary Kaye, and Mrs Fields all started with a good idea, and they all started small.
Now they are empires.
Those commercials that show the guy that says "Clap on, clap off", that was my idea but I didn't get a patent are so phony. If he actually got off his lard butt, made one, perfected it, and then produced a bunch of them, he would have gotten rich.
The Invention Rules Are:
- If you can't make a profit by selling one, don't expect to make 10,000.
- If you are confident you have the best product available, market it yourself.
- The big boys can't beat you if your product has already saturated the market.
- People patent everything imaginable. Enforcing a patent costs money and time.
- You can't patent an idea that should be obvious

Ok, I just saw a commercial with one of those scent emitters. They'll never work.
This is why: They put out the same scent all of the time.
We don't smell common smells because our brains block them out.
If the smell changed though, we'd smell it.
I wonder why Glade doesn't realize that.
They should have a scent disk. Everytime hour or so, it should put out a different scent.
Another GREAT IDEA!

Its weird. I saw Glade with a scent disk a few months after I wrote this. Wow.
I guess thats why the whole world was working on powered flight when the Orville brother flew.

It's simple. Ever see those 3D post cards or 3D Jesus on the Cross paintings.
Now, I wondered this when I was a kid. I dissected one of those Jesus 3D post cards.
On the front of the card is a square of plastic, with ridges in it.
These ridges act as lens to focus your eye on a particular perspective of the picture.
The picture behind the plastic is actually TWO pictures.
Anyway, with one of these square of plastic on a computer monitor, it would be possible to write computer games that don't require glasses. They just interlace 2 images on the screen.
Simple, sweet, and no one's made it yet. Why?

Here's another thought for anyone that wants to hear it. Its about our brain.
The Carotid and Vertebral Arteries feed the brain. Blood flows through those little arteries.
Why can't all of those wonderful scientist and doctors figure out what the brain needs, and supply it to the head without a body?
That doesn't sound too complicated, does it?
I keep thinking about that Starship Captain on Star Trek (Pike). His head came out of a box, but he could only answer yes and no.
Right now, heart surgery is done by diverting the blood through a heart/lung machine. Hmmmm.
Also, instead of embalming or cremating people, wouldn't it be better to dehydrate them?
At least there would be a that we could be reanimated sometime in the future.
If you are cremated, you have no chance for reanimation, other than someone going back into time and snatching you out.
I've always thought that's what the Egyptians were thinking when they mummified their Pharoahs.

100 watts is enough energy to power 10 equivalant (lux) rated LED lights
The energy usage for LED lights is 10 x less than incandescent lights. They don't generate much heat.
And they don't burn out. Australians seems to be turned on to the idea.

Store energy from sun, wind or water with an endless amount of storage.
How? Pump energy back into the Electric Companies power grid.
Your meter runs backwards for every kilowatt hour.

We don't have them because nobody really cares about energy waste, the atmosphere, the burning of fossil fuels, or nuclear power. People like to complain, but nobody's thinking. If we can't get huge corporations to change the world for us, if they are stuck in a money making groove, then we should take things into our own hands. Some of the ideas above can be applied over a weekend.

Just replace the circuit breaker and screw in new bulbs!
Lights are on separate circuits that the outlets. They are typically on a breaker that is 1 amp for each light bulb plugged into the loop. My 1,300 square foot house has 2 x 15 amp breakers for the lights. If I were to go outside, place a rectifier between the circuit breaker and the breaker box, my lighting circuits could be converted to 12 volts in less than 10 minutes. All that would be left would be screwing in the 12 volt bulbs.
Better than a 12 volt system would be a 4.5 volt led lighting system. They don't waste energy on heat. Simple stuff. Quick to do.

If your old enough, you'd remember how Grandpa put a candle in the Ice Box every night.
That would charge the ammonia absorbtion system for the next day. These refrigerators are currently found in Travel Trailers and RVs. They can be powered by the sun.
Its a simple system with no moving parts.

When I was a kid, I came up with this one.
I wanted to make a go cart using an old lawn mower engine.
The problem then, was the motor was vertical, while the wheels were horizontal.
Then answer: A Ball on a shaft connected to the wheels.
The ball rolls on a circular plate that is driven by the motor.
The ball can be positioned from the middle of the plate the outside of the plate which makes it turn faster.
That was a simple design
From a stupid little kid (me).
A friend of mine told me they have variable ration transmissions.
They use a piston with a variable stroke length to feed another piston driving the wheels.

My brother wanted a noninvasive way of stopping water flow to a line needing a replacement valve.
The answer: Freezing the water.
Liquid nitrogen might be a good pick here, rapidly applied to avoid problems with expansion.