> I really need to start acting on my ideas. =A0And
> that last word is plural, because I've missed a few others too in the
> past.

> Depressed,

No need to be depressed. I think.
There will always be opportunities.

I have a file of my going back decades
A few happen.
Many don't.

It's worth keeping just to see the ones that other people come up wit
years after I do.
ie I missed that one but I'm current with "steam engine time" and
other opportunities exist.

Or that I find have existed ling before I thought of them and been
turned into a commercial product - ie I was late but it shows my ideas
are good.

I "invented" a rocket propellant pump.
Turns out that the basic principle was patented in THE very first
English industrial patent by Thomas Savery in about (from memory)
1769.
Different but conceptually the same.
BUT also Lockheed Martin patented almost exactly my idea 4 years
before I thought of it.
And when I (not knowing about LocMart) public domained mu idea some
other people turned rather green as I was describing in public what
they were doing in private (unknown to me).
They are still developing the idea and have patented various other aspects.
One day satellites in a certain size range will got to orbit using
propellant pumps thought up by me. And others. And Thomas Savery in
17xx. I won't get any  from it but it will be nice to know.

Re the flying car.
The best thing anyone can do is to sit down and write a vastly
detailed description of every aspect of ways that  this may be done
and all the issues they can think of and more. And then publish it
public domain. A truly level playing field.


    Russell

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