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["WILLIAM JONES" <billj AT harborside.com>]

Bill Jones wrote:
> Make a protective cage for the flow by say, weaving twigs into an egg shape.
Sorry, that should read "float" instead of "flow".
I submitted the post on the non-electric solar tracker twice because someone 
forgot the tilda the first time.
Oddly, none of this is seriously patentable, when you think about it.  Why?  
Any child can make one.  But still, the patent office being the Great Whore 
that it is, some jerk would surely try to steal it and get a patent, if only 
to stop it from seeing the light of day.  We had hoped to maybe sell models 
filled with helium at the propsed Museum of Fluid Power, and that might never 
come to fruition if the idea were stolen.  But when I posted a picure online 
with a date, at the cost of instantly becoming public domain, I saw to it 
that no one else can ever claim this idea as their own, for no cost 
whatsoever.