1/22/08 - An important message and announcement: Before posting the comprehensive end-of-year report I am working on now, I must address another more immediate and critical issue, in regard to whether or not we further pursue approval of the key but very expensive European patent application for the EDF Generator – having now pretty much adequately secured IP protection for the rest of the industrialized world (with examination still pending only in Japan) . . .
I must draft and file a difficult and lengthy brief with the IP attorneys - and get them rolling on it before Feb. 9th - or I will in effect have abandoned that application (and the considerable money spent on it so far!) because this brief must address a final "office action" from the Examiner, who is virtually certain to reject or deny it otherwise given typically skeptical and sometimes silly objections to certain aspects of the complex UHV propulsive variant (or 'StarDrive' device) and an insufficient supporting discussion of vacuum energy in the original Description . . .
The problem is quite simply that back in 2000 when I first filed (in the U.S.), "vacuum energy" was not yet widely accepted as a reality in physics and so I didn't feel that I could talk about it or use it properly in the patent application . . . Now, of course, it's the perfect and wholly legitimate explanation for the terrific COPs possible with the EDF Generator technology!
Be that as it may, we've thus far overcome similar objections in both India and China and, with the experience we gained in those cases and a sufficiently strong supporting brief from myself, we stand a pretty fair chance of prevailing once again and securing approval of the European patent application. However, this initial approval would actually give us no "blanket" intellectual property protection in the European Union, except in whatever individual constituent countries for which we could also afford to file further separate national applications!
This is one of the biggest and most difficult decisions financially that I've always known AESI would have to face someday, and dreaded, given the continued uncertainties in our funding. Yet I must stress what a strategic mistake I believe it would be to simply abandon this long and expensive undertaking, just because it's hard to see at the moment how we could afford it! Even so – having recently received an offer of support from the U.K. which is both friendly and firm (given successful final results in our p-o-c experimentation), I feel compelled to forge ahead at least as far as obtaining final approval or rejection of our EU patent application – and trust with great faith that somehow we will again find means to pay the resulting stream of IP invoices generated . . .
On a more positive note, I am pleased to announce that AESI will soon be welcoming aboard Mr. James Van Hala, of North Olmstead, OH, as an Associate Sponsor of our EDF Generator Proof-of-Concept Experimentation in the forthcoming and final series of tests. His assistance at this time is greatly appreciated, as it will further enable us to prepare for future demonstrations of the experimental assembly for outside visitors who may wish to verify the validity of our posted results.
Mr. Van Hala, and his company Lakeshore Industrial Sales Inc., will also be serving as AESI's exclusive OEM Representative for distribution and sales of our patented Syntrefoil Aeroturbine, both in the U.S. and abroad, and we are looking forward to an exciting and rewarding cooperative effort in making quality over-unity power generation equipment – which even wind power systems properly are! – available and affordable to customers everywhere.
In the meantime, I shall post my year-end report as soon as possible, which will include a fairly detailed discussion of the present status of our p-o-c experimentation and my strategic approach to securing bona fide over-unity results. I might add that I expect these final pre-prototypic tests results will be inarguably exciting!
Yours truly,
Mark R. Tomion
Pres.
Archer Energy Systems, Inc. (AESI)
Archer Enterprises
1/07/08 - A preliminary year-end memo for 2007: I would first like to convey my best wishes for the New Year to all our valued shareholders and website visitors alike! This memo comes slightly in advance of a more comprehensive end-of-year report for 2007 – what a strange and difficult year it was . . . I know that some of you are concerned about the lack of recent updates, and for that I apologize.
In a nutshell, last year we had to essentially "trade time for money", due to a major funding pledge we received in February which was responsible for us tackling the purchase of our own corporate office, but which was utterly defaulted upon in March . . . Without the monies we were promised (by a notable Texas businessman), AESI was left almost without any engineering budget for the year, and so my time in the latter half of 2007 was largely spent in a thankfully successful disaster recovery mode, and all is well again – at least for the time being . . . I emerged from the year's 'funding wars' pretty "scathed" but with all of our intellectual property intact!
Last year was rather pivotal for us in a number of ways, and AESI's outlook for the coming year is actually better than ever! I will post my '07 end-of-year report ASAP - I just have to figure out how the heck to best describe the kind of year I had! I even had a little bit of trouble with my health (I am 50 now, after all), and had to take some time off, but I'm back in the saddle and getting ready to fire our EDF Generator experimental assembly again – in the final series of tests I'll ever have to do with it, hopefully . . .
In any case, I really can't delay disclosing my final p-o-c results much longer, as I admit has been the case to an extent . . . Not because those all-important results will be negative or disappointing but because I'm reasonably certain they will be solidly affirmative – while, unfortunately, we don't yet have the benefit of the kind of protective umbrella a good Project Sponsor or Co-Developer of suitable stature could provide for us. And that's a little scary, as some of you will understand, since hostile parties can logically then be expected to materialize in force!
Nevertheless, I intend and expect to demonstrate the p-o-c equipment for interested parties, as an output device which satisfies our own criteria for pre-prototypic input COP, before the end of February. By that time, we should also be able to publicly release our final and conclusive p-o-c experimental results, and explain our reasoning satisfactorily to one and all as to the interpretation thereof. [I should clarify for new visitors that this applies so far only to the EDF Generator's simple electric power output variant!]
My 2007 end-of-year report will be the biggest ever, so keep an eye on our News page in the next few days and all will be further explained.
Yours truly,
Mark R. Tomion
Pres.
Archer Energy Systems, Inc.
Archer Enterprises
585-526-5936*
* This is a temporary landline for use only until our new corporate number is published.
9/30/07 - Our New Wind Power Project Sponsor!: Archer Energy Systems, Inc. would like to announce that we have now entered into an exciting new 'Business Development Agreement' with Weber Racing Equipment Inc., a well-known builder of high-performance racing engines in N. Ridgeville, OH, who will not only serve as our exclusive Syntrefoil Aeroturbine Project Sponsor but will also be fabricating a 12'-dia. prototype wind turbine assembly for us this fall!
As it turns out, we will be building this smaller Syntrefoil turbine first for our pilot plant, rather than the big 16-ft. model, so that data can be obtained and accurately scaled (due to the simple mechanical transmission employed) to verify the output capability of that full-scale turbine prior to coupling it as planned to a hydraulic drive train of as-yet-undetermined efficiency. We will thereby also be able to make the most accurate calculation of the Syntrefoil design's own inherent efficiency (as a percentage of the Betz limit) – which should be much higher than that of any typical horizontal-axis wind turbine!
AESI will make the necessary arrangements (if permissible) to implement a "net metering" grid-tie connection for the pilot project system, once it's completed and installed at our new office property, thus facilitating the development of valuable integrated system performance data for use in sales and marketing. Siting the project system at AESI's business office should also prove advantageous given the heavy vehicle traffic past our new location, and the resultant considerable product exposure.
Archer Energy Systems, Inc. is looking forward to a long and rewarding working relationship with Weber Racing Equipment Inc., and to market introduction of the Syntrefoil Aeroturbine residential wind power system in the coming year!
9/18/07 - An important memo regarding our General Sponsor: This important memorandum is to announce the imminent retirement of our current General Sponsor, Mr. V. G. Roederer, a senior businessman from Shepherdsville, KY. Archer Energy Systems, Inc. was pleased to recognize Mr. Roederer back in 2005 as our principal shareholder and sole "general sponsor" for his vision and support in the initial pursuit of broad international patent rights for the EDF Generator technology. As such, Mr. Roederer was granted certain special AESI stock acquisition rights, including the option to purchase up to 5% of our limited Series "A" voting stock, and he will always have, as he did then, our sincerest gratitude!
Upon his retirement, however, Mr. Roederer's general sponsorship position becomes open and available, and we must therefore begin the process of finding a suitable successor. By company resolution, our 'General Sponsor' may be either a private individual or a chartered business entity, publicly acknowledged or not, but must also be an "accredited investor" (of substantial means, as that term is understood in securities protocol). This is because the primary responsibilities of AESI's General Sponsor are to assure the adequate underwriting of our serious and ongoing intellectual property expenses, and to subsidize the company's fixed administrative expenses (such as our office lease). In this way, we can maximize that portion of our available 'outside' funding which is directly applied to the actual business of engineering, presumably to the added benefit of the company and all our shareholders!
Please note that holding AESI's exclusive general sponsorship position is normally the only way that a private individual may acquire the Series "A" (voting) stock of Archer Energy Systems, Inc. without being a director or executive officer of the company*, and that our new General Sponsor will have the option to purchase a considerably expanded percentage of that stock. We are now taking applications for this extraordinary position of opportunity, and more information is available upon request by writing to Mark R. Tomion, president of AESI, c/o: aesi@stardrivedevice.com.
* or an official Project Sponsor who maintains a special installment stock purchase plan.
9/08/07 - Our Business Outlook for 2008: While our prior Business Plan is being updated for 2008, I am pleased to publish our AESI Business Outlook 2008 webpage, to hopefully put the company's real plans and prospects into better perspective for all of our faithful web visitors and supporters! This document will be added as an Appendix to both of our Offering Memorandums and to a 'new' AESI "Primary Business Plan". The latter will differ from the former BP 2006 mainly in that our humble financials will be suitably updated and I will emphasize one of the most important and exciting findings to come out of this year's difficult proof-of-concept work for the EDF Generator: that prototyping the device's stationary-armature variant should be only about half as expensive and involved as was expected (and outlined in that earlier BP) for a rotating armature device!
Some people have hinted that Archer Energy Systems, Inc. might be better off keeping "all our eggs in one basket" (i.e., focusing solely on developing the EDF Generator technology), and that ancillary projects are unnecessary and perhaps undesirable, while others (I hope) will see the logic of having multiple but very select projects going in tandem! Thus, whereas our 'primary' project focus is and must (of course) be the EDF Generator, we do have a few other very good "irons in the fire", and in fact have two exciting new inventions in the works that haven't been disclosed on our website before...
Indeed, some of our "other projects" – like the patented Syntrefoil Aeroturbine – represent technologies that might be much easier and less expensive than our prototype EDF Generator to develop and introduce commercially, as products which are nevertheless also just as excellently engineered. Therefore, the Outlook 2008 synopsis will briefly describe each of the several Projects that AESI has actively under way, all of which could benefit greatly from better funding yet already involve a feasible energy system product in planning or development.
In any case, I'd also like to announce that the remodeling of our 'new' 500 sq.-ft. corporate office suite (under lease from Archer Enterprises) is very nearly complete, and my EDF Generator proof-of-concept experimentation – which was sorely interrupted during the interim – will resume shortly, in a dedicated lab room adjacent to the main office! This great commercial headquarters facility, in a semi-rural area with a beautiful view, will open in October (and include overnight accommodations for two visitors).
With our fourth corporate anniversary coming up soon (in March), Archer Energy Systems, Inc. is no longer really a "start-up company". Thus, our foremost goal in 2008 must be to introduce at least one new saleable product from our existing repertoire of unconventional technologies, and successfully make the difficult transition from a primarily R&D and IP holding company mode of operation to that of an original equipment manufacturer generating revenues from the public sale of its products. And I am certain we will be able to do just that.
With best regards,
Mark R. Tomion
Pres.
Archer Energy Systems, Inc.
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7/07/07 - Status of Foreign IP for the EDF Generator: I'm pleased to report that, as of July 3, the timely payment by AESI of all foreign intellectual property maintenance annuities which are due this year for the Electrodynamic Field Generator technology was confirmed by our attorneys. This applies to both patents issued (I) and patents pending examination (PE) in the jurisdictions of: Australia (I); Canada (PE); China (I); Europe (PE); India (I); Russia (I); and South Africa (I).
Some of you may feel – as indeed I do myself – that the forward pace of the actual EDF Generator prototype work we do at Archer Energy Systems, Inc. has been quite slow . . . Yet, at times up to half of the all-too-limited funding we've been able to raise so far has had to immediately be reserved or disbursed to cover IP expenses which are unavoidable if AESI is to retain our ownership and investment equity in the many respective patent filings!
But – I like to think that we have some very good reasons to make such a commitment and apparent sacrifice, as is reflected in part in our updated 2nd PoC Experiment webpage. Armature (output) electrode firing trials with our evacuated experimental assembly will resume as soon as static testing of the control board modifications is complete, before the end of July [2007]. By that time, we could also hope to receive some portion of the rather large amount of funding we never received this year due to broken pledges, which would certainly be helpful on both the engineering and IP fronts and much appreciated . . .
Cordially,
Mark R. Tomion
Pres.
AESI
