Re: Where's George--And When was he most George

[Paul Krombholz <krombhol at teclink_net>]

  I have a suspicion that the reason we haven't heard from George 
recently can be found in another April posting he made.  Having 
survived electrocution, he went on to do experiments on the growth of 
aquatic plants in a direct current electrical field, and, perhaps 
unwisely, reported his preliminary results before he fully considered 
the consequences of his doing so.    My guess is that he has been 
spirited away by a large multinational corporation that is keeping 
him incommunicado while they investigate the enormous economic 
potential of his experiment.  You can find George's preliminary 
report at
http://fins.actwin.com/aquatic-plants/month.9608/msg00153.html
and you can see that complex variables are involved, such as electric 
fields, aquatic plants and cyanobacterial films.  You may protest 
that multinational corporations aren't supposed to be allowed to 
kidnap people, but if these corporations make sufficiently large 
donations to major political parties, you would be amazed at what 
they can do.  Since no patent applications for the process have been 
filed yet, I assume that some technical glitches have yet to be 
solved.  Perhaps they are having a hard time getting the requisite 
cyanobacterial films.  I'm sure that some of us are not having these 
problems, and we, therefore, may have an edge in developing this 
process.  I am referring you to George's report in hopes that someone 
on this list will be able to develop the process to the point where a 
patent process can be filed.  I think it costs about $1,200.00 to 
file a patent application, but it is worth it to get George back in 
time for the convention.  I am assuming that, if somebody does file a 
patent on the process, the multinational corporation will have no 
further reason to hold onto George (and Karla), and will let them go. 
Besides, if the process can be up-scaled, the lucky patent holder 
could become a billionaire!

Free George Booth!
--
Paul Krombholz in steamy central Mississippi