Image legality of a defective image

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Original poster: "Scott Hanson" <huil888-at-surfside-dot-net> 

Chris -

Not to hurt anyone's feelings, but the "bucket capacitor" that you feel
deserves so much recognition is fundamentally flawed, both as described in
the text and as shown in "the illustration" at the Greek Group site.

According to the instructions (and as clearly shown in "the illustration"),
pairs of bottles are interconnected with individual "U-shaped" pieces of
copper wire.

Somewhere (not shown) a connection is made from one of the U-shaped wires to
a binding post on the bucket cover. However, this means the binding post is
actually "connected" to ONLY the two bottles that share the U-shaped wire
connected to the binding post. All other bottles must discharge through the
salt water "gap" between U-shaped wires. Very inefficient and lossy.

To make this setup actually work right, all the U-shaped wires going into
every bottle need to be clamped, soldered, brazed (or create a
low-resistance connection by other means) to each other so the bottles are
actually connected in parallel.

Hmmmmm ..... I guess this improvement is now MY intellectual property
....... domestic and international plagiarists beware ......

Scott Hanson
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Subject: Image legality


 > Original poster: "Chris Boden" <cboden-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org>
 >
 >
 > Hi All,
 >      As many of you know, the Geek Group avidly supports the dissemination
of
 > scientific and technical knowledge by all legitimate means. All pictures,
 > texts, and diagrams on our web site are published with the permission of
the
 > author(s) and credits are posted to the extent possible.  We usually have
no
 > objections to anyone copying pictures and quoting text as long as sources
 > are cited and appropriate credit given. However, copying from our site
 > without permission, removing credit lines, and publishing materials on
 > another website as one's own, is intellectually and professionally
unethical
 > and, in the case of copyrighted materials, also illegal, even
 > internationally.
 >
 > Because pursuing remedy claims internationally through the legal system is
 > very slow, painful, and costly, we are asking the members of TCML, the
 > largest peer-review TC group, to consider this several-year-old
illustration
 > from our website:
 >    http://www.thegeekgroup-dot-org/projects/bucketcap/
 >
 > and compare it to this recent website:
 > http://free-kc.htnet.hr/Kreso-Bukvic/Izrada%20VN%20kondezatora.htm
 >
 >     and use whatever peer pressure they may be able to exert to remedy
this
 > situation without our having to seek legal recourse.
 >      While we realize that sometimes a copy of a copy of a copy of
something
 > may inadvertently be displayed without permission/credits However direct
 > plagiarism with deliberate editing out of names/logos is difficult to see
as
 > accidental.
 >
 > Sincerely,
 >
 >
 > The Geek Group Board
 >
 >