<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 8:41 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Well, the ones who didn't reply, keep drilling! =)</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There's only so much time and energy I can put into an effort that is getting literally zero results. And now I may have a path to actually getting some value from my idea.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I wonder if you could <br>
put together a proposal for several companies to sponsor in return, of <br>
course, for potential rights to use the results on an exclusive basis?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If I can't even get one company interested, I rather doubt I could get multiple.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But if you want to look into setting up a company along these lines, I'll make you this offer.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Spend some weeks or months researching this field further. Maybe talk to that company in Stockholm (I don't know if you can literally just swing by their office, call and make an appointment, or how that works). For my idea for now, do the math as if it just removed the expense of helium from the equation, with no consideration of what other costs or benefits it would bring. (I believe this will be close enough to the truth, for purposes of determining whether you could outcompete the existing solutions or find another way to profit from this.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If, after that, you have a viable enough business notion that you form a company, I would be willing to sign a NDA with that company to facilitate disclosing how my trick works. If, after evaluating, you wish to use it, we can then discuss licensing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I can't guarantee exclusive licensing. After all, if my PhD plan works, it would be published for all (or at least, those who notice) to see in about 4 years. But since I can't get anyone else interested anyway, and let's say it takes you 1 year to get this going, that's 3 years of de facto exclusivity - possubly enough time to establish market dominance.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I believe that's the best I can offer, given my situation. But if you want to put in the work, and you have a good enough application for this* and can raise the capital, I would not mind helping you get rich this way.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">* I had been thinking more along the lines of cargo airships delivering to/from remote areas with poor infrastructure, or long-duration drones that can stay on station much longer than helium airship drones (like a cell tower in the sky, or something with most of the benefits of a GEO satellite but much closer and lower cost, for lower latency and higher resolution observation in exchange for a smaller footprint).</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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