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Water Car Project - status after one monthEarth 2012 gives progress update report. ContextThe report below is an update of the following story
Update
From: Stef
Kling
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:37 AM
Subject: water car project - status after one month
Dear subscriber,
One month after the launch of the Water Car
project it is time for the first project status update.
So far we have received £2300 on donations, and
we had the first person to donate £1000!
All of you who have made a donation: thank you for your trust and support!
This is a good start considering we had only limited press coverage.
We had press coverage in the Times of India and
the Scottish Daily Record, plus several websites.
More important at this stage is that we are making
very useful connections. We have strengthened the Earth 2012 team
and we are talking to several renowned organizations to form
partnerships, but it is early (summer holiday) days yet and it will
be several months before any agreements have been reached.
An item that has triggered many questions and
discussions is our initial idea not to patent the technology.
We did not want to patent this as we are not
doing this to get rich, we just want this technology to be used. However
thinking it through the only people who will benefit from this are the car
manufacturers, as you do need to buy a new car to use this technology
(its too high-tech to build yourself, and you need an engine that is corrosion
free).
So we have decided the following: we will patent
and license the technology, the license fees will go to good causes.
We will set up a separate organization to establish licensing
agreements with car manufacturers. License fees should be kept low in order as
not to influence the price of a car for the consumer (for example £10 to
£100 per car, this has not been decided yet).
41 million cars are produced each year world wide,
so you can imagine that this could become a significant fund for
good causes! The beauty of this concept is that a one-time
donation of (for example) £10 will become a yearly flow of £100
to £1000 to good causes.
Thank you all for your support, and please keep
your emails with feedback coming, this is much appreciated.
Note that the information in this email is not mentioned on the website
yet, we will update the website within the next two weeks.
With love,
Stef Kling
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