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Sata collection in places where no data collection
exists, for instance designing AUVs to "Glide" on predefined courses through the
ocean or ride ocean currents and collect data over the long term, maybe even
video and audio recordings that could later be collected and the raw and
processed data released to the public which universities and other interested
parties could use for their own projects. (Listening for whales and whale song
comes to mind) Data collection in the form of Micro AUVs that could be released
in a fresh water spring by a cave diver that could then flow with the current
and perhaps surface at some other point to help map underground aquifers a bit
more safely, because it wouldn't have to worry about silt outs or OOA or
whatever. It'd have to be small and it's power consumption would have to be very
little, but it could either function as a beacon (Ultra Low Frequency to
penetrate the overhead) that could be tracked by a ground station or it could
collect visual/sonar data that could later be interpreted by a technician. (when
I say sonar it would be limited sonar because of power rates, but it could be
done)
The key idea of organizing though would be
so
All the tech that would be developed by the org
would be patented by the org and then open licensed to anyone that wants to use
it free of charge (and that would be in the charter that no patent could be
closed or sold to a for profit agency) thus disallowing patent portfolio firms
that make their money off of litigation from aquiring patents on whatever tech
is developed and basicly legally blackmailing people that make something
similiar. It would also open up all the designs for the public so they could
improve on and make better marine tech. Something like the open source
software movement but without the stipulation that if you use an open patent
design you have to open patent yours... so companies wouldn't feel threatened by
using the research would invalidate their proprietary R&D.
Am I making sense?
George Slaterpryce
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