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You have an idea for a new invention and you’ve already developed it. However, you know you don’t have the resources to produce your invention and turn a profit. Well, companies ask for invention submissions on a fairly regular basis, so this could present some wonderful opportunities for you.

Your first step before making an invention submission is to obtain a patent. Contact a patent lawyer and the United States Patent and Trademark office. The patent lawyer will help you through the submission process and help insure that you are legally protected against any potential problems. There is a fee, but since this can change, it is best to contact the USPTO yourself. This step protects your invention and idea from getting stolen.

Your next step is to find a list of companies who accept invention submissions. For example, if your invention has to do with cars, then find an auto-related company that is open to reviewing invention submissions. Most of these companies recommend that you patent your idea first. This protects you and prevents problems such as idea theft from occurring. You can search on the Internet for potential companies, or call companies that interest you and ask if they review patented inventions.

This is a great option for a large company. A great idea can help increase their profits. They may already have the idea, but you got the patent before they did. This makes a partnership worth considering. They have the resources and you have the idea. Just make sure they compensate you adequately.

So, if you have an invention, consider making invention submissions to relevant companies. This may help increase your own profits and removes you from the production process. Just make sure to patent your idea before you share your invention with a company.

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We’ve all heard that there is no such thing as a ‘free lunch’; well the process described in this article may be as close to one as you get. Most of us already know the benefits of CO2 enrichment for photosynthesis. To maximize indoor growing and greenhouse potential, CO2 is supplemented to maintain an approximate level of 1500 ppm, this can require frequent trips to an industrial gas supplier and/or a lot of propane or natural gas use, and related costs. It is ironic that many indoor farmers are exhausting CO2 to the outdoors from home heaters and hot water heaters while simultaneously releasing or generating CO2 for an indoor grow room or a greenhouse.

Propane and Natural gas burn clean enough that small non-vented gas devices have been approved for indoor use. These gas burning devices all use oxygen (in the air) to burn the gas, resulting in the by-products of CO2, H20 (humidity), and heat (Reusch). Exhaust from gas appliances can provide 3 essential conditions for maximized growth: humidity, temperature, and CO2 level. Most heat from the exhaust is removed by the heat exchanger of the furnace or water heater; resulting in mildly warm exhaust. Photosynthesis for many plants, including marijuana, in a CO2 enriched environment,is most efficient around 85 degrees F.

If a large gas heater’s exhaust is diverted into the grow area, there is great potential for all the oxygen to be burned up or displaced, as well as CO (carbon monoxide accumulation), resulting in toxic air conditions. With proper equipment, the CO2 from your gas furnace and/or water heater’s exhaust can be safely used to supplement the CO2 used in your grow room. This will save time and money, make the plants grow great, reduce fuel use, and dramatically reduce the amount of ‘Greenhouse’ gasses released into the environment. Using this technique, you will help prevent global warming while optimizing growing conditions. The key to doing this safely and effectively is to divert enough exhaust from your gas appliance into your grow area to maintain a CO2 level of 1500 ppm, and have additional exhaust directed outside.

“The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) have set workplace safety standards of 5,000 ppm” and very high CO2 levels can cause undetectable asphyxiation when O2 in the blood is replaced by the CO2 (Minnesota Department of Health). Keep a CO (carbon monoxide) detector in the grow room for safety in case equipment malfunctions! Do not attempt this project if you use oil or kerosene heat, which do not burn cleanly!
The trick to tapping into this source of unused CO2 from gas furnace and water heaters is power dampers. A power damper is a duct section with a flap that opens and closes the flow through the duct and is powered by electricity. Some dampers close with current applied and others are designed to open. Most dampers are low voltage so the right size transformer must be wired inline to the damper; there are some 110volt dampers. Quality dampers will seal much better than cheap dampers. This simple addition to a CO2 enrichment system will pay for itself many times over (especially with today’s fuel prices) and reduce house or business emissions into the environment, making your project ‘greener’. It is necessary to have a CO2 levels monitor hooked to a controller (sequencer) to tell the dampers (by applying power) when CO2 is needed and when the threshold has been reached. You can still use your controller to run your CO2 generator and or regulator.

Find the exhaust pipe of your gas furnace or hot water heater. These devices should already be properly vented. Turn off your gas appliance while working on this. Disconnect (or cut open) a section of duct where it will be closest, with least bends, to tap in and route a new duct to the grow area. The few items needed can be found at most heating supply stores. If you can not find matching dampers for the size and type of duct that you have, you may have to convert the duct to a size or type that you can find dampers for. Using a “Y” connector and a power damper that closes when power is added, hook up inline with the duct running to the outside. For smooth flow, install “Y” so exhaust comes in the ‘bottom’ of the “Y” duct section. Now take the damper that opens when power is applied, attach it to the other “Y” opening. Run a duct from this ‘power open’ damper into the grow area above the plants, since CO2 is heavier than air; but you probably already know this. Now all you have to do is either wire the dampers together or use a multi-outlet adapter and plug them into your CO2 sequencer along with your CO2 generator or CO2 tank regulator using a 3 outlet adapter.

If the pipes are far from the outside wall or roof there may be inline duct booster fans. If the grow room is not getting flow through the new duct, a inline duct booster fan may be needed, especially if there is one used on the original duct that exhausts to the outside past the new “Y” section from the appliance. If you add a duct booster fan, wire it or plug it in together with the dampers, they will then power on and off together. Many furnaces will have an adequate exhaust blower so an additional duct booster fan will not be necessary. Keep an eye on any booster fans (if any) on the original duct between the “Y” junction and the outside, there is a chance they could overheat if running when the damper to the outside is closed.
Once this is setup, when your CO2 sequencer determines it’s time to add CO2 to the room and switches power on, the exhaust damper to the outside will close and the damper to the grow room will open; resulting in the furnace’s or hot water heater’s exhaust being diverted into the grow room. The CO2 generator or release regulator will be working also, this way the room is guaranteed to always have just the right amount of CO2 even if the furnace or water heater is not currently in use. When the proper level is reached and the sequencer powers off, the damper leading into the grow room will close and the damper in the duct leading to the outside will reopen. All exhaust at this point will vent outside until the room needs more CO2.
For safety, be sure all circuits and/or outlets are supplying no more than 80% of their rated load in watts, and are properly wired. Also, be sure to secure duct well. The 200

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There’s a single question all successful people ask themselves, and then act on. How do I know? Because, they wouldn’t be successful otherwise! So, if you too really want to be successful, you also need to ask it.

In fact, because it’s such a blindingly obvious question, it gets overlooked more times than not. The question is this: “Why am I doing this?”.

Take your time to think about that, before you answer. Then I’ll tell you the wrong answer, most people give.

Ready? Right, if you said your goal was to make a million bucks — or anything to do with money — go to the bottom of the class. Making money your reason for doing something is a dangerous delusion, that will only make you miserable.

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And, in case you think I’ve been sniffing carpet adhesive, let me point out that you only really want money for what it can do for you. What you want — really want — is a big house, a smart car, plenty of holidays. In short, all the things money can buy. And, you also want the things that money can’t buy, like love, appreciation, respect.

So, it’s back to the drawing board, whilst I ask the same question again: “Why are you doing this?”.

You see, the reason you need to have your real intention (other than a mere pile of cash) firmly fixed in your mind is you cannot visualize being involved with a pile of bank notes. Why is that? Because you’ve probably never seen a few million dollars piled up in one place. On the other hand, I bet you’ve seen plenty of beautiful houses, you could imagine yourself living in, and probably the exact car you aspire to — even that beautiful gal or guy you want to date. And, in order to impress your intentions on your subconscious, so it can come up with the ideas that will make your intention a reality, you need to see yourself actually living the life you desire. So all you can do with a pile of cash is roll around in it, laughing hysterically, like one of those old B movies about bank robbers. Not a very impressive scenario, really.

But, now you know the elements you need to have, you can set about constructing, in your mind’s eye, your perfect day, which must include all the elements you want in your life. So you awake in your sumptuous mansion, with the love of your life lying beside you (no insistent alarm clock, of course). Then you would bathe in your luxury bathroom, before eating your breakfast of fresh Hawaiian pineapple, whilst sitting in the morning sun overlooking Diamond Head — if that is your ambition. And so on . . right through your perfect day.

You might find this hard to believe, but deciding exactly what you want your life to look like, right down to the finest detail, is actually the hardest part of the process.

So, once you’ve properly answered the question, “Why am I doing this?”, you will know with absolute clarity why you are working so hard to bring your dreams into reality. Then, when the going gets tough — as it will, at some point — and when you feel like giving up on your dreams and “settling” for second best, you can instantly snap on the movie screen of your mind and see your perfect day, in glorious wide screen technicolor.

Then you can say, “This is why I’m doing this!”. And you’ll start over with renewed vigor and vaporize every obstacle that stands between you and your perfect day.

Copyright 2006 Paul Hooper-Kelly and www.HowToMakeYourOwnLuck.com

Paul Hooper-Kelly owns http://HowToMakeYourOwnLuck.com/ and draws on his lifetime’s experience of business and personal success to help ordinary people achieve extraordinary personal and financial success.

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