A catalog of alternatives

I would love to see all of the ideas I've seen, heard and concieved since the '60s for alternatives in energy generation, conservation, storage, etc., cataloged.

I shelved some of my ideas decades ago because I assumed they were either impractical or too easily stolen by corporate carpetbaggers. Last year I saw one of them, a wastewater to fresh water heat exchanger, at the Green Festival in Seattle.

I have an efficient air-to-air ventilator design I prototyped in 1979 but I'm no business man and I don't trust any of them not to steal my work. Thirty years later I still haven't seen the air-to-air design anywhere even though I know it works.
Also a big fan of in-ground homes, I designed a simple method of flood-proofing an in-ground home so it could be built in hurricane or tornado country. Flat land tends to flood in the kinds of torrential rains I've seen in Wichita, KS, where I was born and raised.

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Permalink Reply by Mark J Warren on February 16, 2009 at 8:55am: Mr. Dodge

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Permalink Reply by South Dakota Wind Energy on February 16, 2009 at 9:38am: Jerome,

I also like the idea of underground dwellings. I was an underground miner when young, you do get used to it.
While learning Architectural drafting I designed an underground home design.

Welcome to the group, it looks like you have a lot to contribute.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Anthony Fernald Sr. on February 17, 2009 at 2:07am: Wise words from a Friend.
This says it all.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy
out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another
person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to
anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody
else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to
work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the
other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody
else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friends, is about
the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

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Permalink Reply by Jerome S. Dodge on February 21, 2009 at 10:51am: Indeed, what the bankers receive without working for it, the wage-earners have to work for without receiving it.
I prototyped my air-to-air heat exchange ventilator 30 years ago to eliminate indoor pollution without pumping all the paid-for heat out of our homes.
After proving it to be workable and efficient, I realized that I would have to invest money I didn't have to develop it. Knowing that an investor would simply absorb any profits from my efforts and leave me with any liabilities, I shelved the idea. I am sure there are honest patent attorneys out there somewhere, but which ones? Of the four attorneys I have dealt with in my life, two have been honest. The other two sold me out to my adversaries.

I have seen less efficient designs over the years, but nothing as effective as my design.; ▶ Reply to This

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