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| ModerndayEdison | Anyone have any suggestions? | 0 | Jan 14 2008, 4:00 AM EST by ModerndayEdison | ||||
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As you know from reading my profile I am an inventor
and entrepreneur working on starting a new type of Alternative Energy based Motor Company. Any sort of business start-up venture requires capital to get started.....and lots of it. I have been through a string of industry layoffs and a messy divorce......and I am seriously looking at Rock Hounding and Prospecting as a means to assemble the needed capital to do what I plan to do. If anyone has any suggestions that might help as to which stones or minerals are most lucrative.... I am all ears. |
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| ModerndayEdison | The gold in drift wood. | 3 | Dec 25 2007, 11:59 AM EST by ModerndayEdison | ||||
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Thread started: Dec 25 2007, 1:53 AM EST
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That's right, I said drift wood.
Know any businesses in the market for healthy organic mulch? Know any Art schools that might be in the market for small pieces of drift wood that their students can use for sculptures and other craft projects? Nurseries? I have two words for you, Fire Wood. The capital is free to whom ever takes the time to collect it. Fire Wood sells for $5.00 a bundle, each bundle containing between 6 to 8 pieces of wood. While your out collecting loose pieces of drift wood take your metal detector along, river banks hold many surprises. Also you might want to keep your eyes peeled for valuable old bottles and other things of interest that most people don't see because river banks aren't walked as often as lake shores. The water level in rivers constantly changes which means things that float often get deposited on the banks and then dry out in the sun. Items on the bottom get worked to the banks by waves and water currents and also get dried out by the sun when the water levels are low, usually in the mid to late summer season. That is the best time to be treasure hunting on the river's edge. Because everyone else is too busy having fun on the river in their expensive boats and all the stuff that was washed down river up stream the previous Spring is on the banks and free for the taking, finders keepers losers weepers. Also, certain drift wood poles make great tent poles for homemade canvas tents. They allow you to design your tent the way you want it. There are allot of uses for drift wood, you just have to give it some thought. A fence, a make shift yard barn, garden stakes, homemade bow and arrow, you name it. Feel free to contribute your ideas.
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| ModerndayEdison | Prospecting History for Entrepreneurial Opportinities. | 4 | Dec 25 2007, 5:06 AM EST by ModerndayEdison | ||||
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It is often said that history repeats itself. What does that mean to a modern treasure hunter?
Well, it means that an idea that didn't go over in the past might be a big hit today. How about a car that runs without gas, and recharges it's own batteries? I uncovered a self sufficient electric automobile that Thomas Alva Edison built while working for General Electric back in the early 1900's during the dawn of the Auto Industry. But it was frowned upon by GE's core investors in the oil industry back then, and continues to be a skeleton in their closet even today. Edison was ousted from the company he helped create and build from the ground up. Mainly because he got too close to achieving what everyone thought was impossible. He invented himself right out of a job. After that happened in 1919 he tried to have his car made by Ford but Henry Ford veiwed the concept as simply too expensive for their purposes at that time, but hired Edison as a top level engineer to help shave costs and manufacture a stripped down version of Edison's car with a gasoline engine that utilized a hand crank instead of an electric starter to start the engine. It was marketed as the "Ford Model T" and it launched the Ford Motor Company into startum as a Major Auto Maker. One man's failure, is another man's opportunitiy. This has given me pause. How many other such opportunities lay undiscovered in the history books? As soon as I get my own rendition of Edison's self-sufficient drive train working as a power assist unit for a series of bicycles, power generators, lawn mowers, and air conditioners, and possibly to power a motorcycle or boat, I will revisit diferent periods in the history of American Industry to investigate the subject further. But right now I have more than enough material to chew on for awhile.
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