Whether it's plans for a business, a concept for a website, a design for a product or mode of transportation, a use for some alternate form of energy, a plot for a movie, or just some crazy scheme for something that lack of time, money, and/or knowledge prevent me from completing on my own, I've probably wasted some braincells thinking about it. I guess you could call me an "Idea Man". All ideas, little action.
For a number of years, these ideas and concepts have simply stayed just that. Just an idea. Just a concept. Few of them have ever progressed beyond the drawing board. Even fewer still have been made reality. I've filled sketchbooks, notebooks, and 24 hour diner napkins with doodles and musings that, chances are, I'll never be able to create or follow through on. The problem is there are too many times that "just", "if only", "could", "should", and "would" are used in this world already.
This mass of unused concepts has become the inspiration for The Idea Can. A place for me to share ideas that otherwise would end up going nowhere except a drawer to collect dust. Each of them all but forgotten with their only audience being dust mites and mildew. The site itself is the first of many ideas I've come up with over the years that I intend to share.
A Bit About The Ideas Themselves
Some of the ideas presented will be fully fleshed out plans. Others will be little more than gestures of a concept. Perhaps only a sentence or two and a sketch. Where possible, I will include any sketches and illustrations I've worked up that relate to the idea. Also, if I make an update or improvement to an idea, I will try to link it to the initial idea to allow the reader to follow the development more easily.
With every idea I come up with, I try to think of the following quote.
- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- - George Bernard Shaw
Just as most men stand on the shoulders of great men from the past, some of the ideas I share will not be my own. There are many fantastic ideas that have been thought of over the years and many of the most fascinating ones have been forgotten, lost, swept under the rug of history (as with many of Nikola Tesla's inventions), or suppressed through criticism (like many of the "free energy" ideas of today). As I come across them, I will post them with my own thoughts on the idea as well as links to the reference text.
For The Science Sticklers
I'm not an engineer and my knowledge of science is lacking in areas, so some of the scientific ideas I present will lack a great deal of plausibility. I decided a long time ago that I would never allow the (often misquoted) Laws of Thermodynamics to affect my thinking of what can and cannot be done. There are enough people in the world already that preach "scientific fact" and allow that thinking to prevent themselves from creating something new or supporting someone else that is (just look at the comments on the average free energy, HHO, or magnetic energy video on YouTube and you'll see what I mean). Remember that not too long ago in man's history, scientists believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, flight was impossible, and if you drove over 45MPH without a windshield the skin on your face would rip off.
For those that like to use the "It violates the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics" argument, think on the following quote.
- "Free energy does not mean perpetual motion. Extracting power from the vast sea of energy that surrounds us is no more perpetual motion than a photovoltaic cell. It does not violate the second law of thermodynamics. It is a conversion of energy from one form into another form that is usable — not the creation of energy out of nothing."
- - Sterling D. Allan
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