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Hartvigsen: No intention of explaining to group why no proof... Aug.19, 2010

Hartvigsen: No intention of explaining to Yahoo microhydro group why he had no proof of turgo design ownership or the existence of the widow Ingela Carlson or could even provide the name of the inventor when he met with our lawyer on Dec. 23, 2009 .
Aug.19, 2010

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: davis ron
To: microhydro-owner@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 11:10:47 PM
Subject: Hartvigsen: No intention of explaining why no proof of claimed tugo design ownership--fraud

Wim,
As you can see in Hartvigsen's message below, he has no intention of explaining to the group why neither he nor Peter Ruyter are able to provide proof of any kind to support the turgo design ownership claims they have been making to the members of the Yahoo microhydro group for several years.

As you know when Hartvigsen met with our attorney on Dec.23, 09 in Salt Lake City he came completely empty handed.

That is, according to our attorney Brian Kunzler, Hartvigsen was able to provide:

1. no proof of the existence of the "widow Ingela Carlson", from whom he claims Ruyter bought the turgo design produced by her husband, (who he is unable to name!) or where he was supposed to have lived and worked,
2.no proof of the claimed design purchase, or where and when that purchase took place,
3.no proof of the "exclusive license" he claims to have to produce the turgo design,
4. no proof of the right to collect "royalty" payments,
5. no proof of any claimed "royalty agreement" with me.

Have you ever heard the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes"?

And you are still not allowing me to reply to their last series of accusations.

Ron Davis








----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Joseph Hartvigsen
To: davis ron
Sent: Thu, August 12, 2010 10:15:03 AM
Subject: Re: Would you be willing to allow the members of the micro hydro group see the relevant email record....?

Ron,
I just got back from my trip. i have no idea what you are talking about. What is there to decide? I told you (and the group) that I looked into what Brian told me at our meeting just before Christmas and have conceded his point - for the US at least. To me it was a moot issue since I had long since dropped the question except to state the facts of the dispute when YOU dragged it out to the group. I told Brian that I had no interest in fighting the point and had not been interested in pursuing anything other than getting you to leave me alone.

You act like I'm trying to cheat and defraud you. How could that be when in fact I offered to pay the requested royalty on your behalf if you'd even tell me how many spoons you copied. Before that I offered to buy castings from you to provide you with sufficient profit to pay the requested royalty. After that I left it alone. It is YOU AND ONLY YOU that continues to make this an issue. I have tried to help you from the beginning, giving you spoons at cost and early prototype hubs at no charge. Even the youtube you referred me to show you using the tach I gave you, and you made some stink over that because of some comment Nando made about what he thought the original MSRP was. Now I've given you a good supply of greenspoons and you haven't even acknowledged receiving them.

You go on and on that we made up Ingella and the source of the spoons, yet Peter has told you come meet here and if he can't show you proof of the spoons origin he'd pay for your trip. Do you want me to buy your ticket to Sweden? It would be worth the price to end this insanity.

There is nothing to be decided. You've already been posting email on your blog so why do you need to ask me anything?

Joe

From: davis ron
To: h-n-h7@msn.com; joe@h-hydro.com; jjh@ceramatec.com
Sent: Mon, August 9, 2010 2:15:53 PM
Subject: Would you be willing to allow the members of the micro hydro group see the relevant email record....?

Joe,
Would you be willing to allow the members of the micro hydro group see the relevant email record and decide for themselves who is telling the truth about your intellectual property claims regarding the turgo design in question and what the consequences should be? Would you be willing to abide by their decision?


Ron

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Nando to Yahoo Microhydro Group: Why I always recommend Hartvigsen's turgos

nando wrote:
Steve:

Turgos turbines are made in several forms and the efficiency varies depending on
the bucket form.

Some have the "buckets" made with tube cut sections which do give poor
efficiency, these are not buckets but blades which when the water hits way from
the 90 degrees point starts losing efficiency.

Turgos with high efficiency have the buckets formed in a shape that we could say
that look like a tablespoon with one side straight where the jets enters to hit
the spoon.

The best efficiency Turgos have the buckets formed with an elliptical profile
which allows the maximum transfer of energy of the jet hitting the buckets
throughout the full angle range of the jet also the top of the elliptical
profile is cut in a well defined curved profile to maximize the jet distribution
between more than one bucket at the same time.

Joe Hartvigsen Turgos are one that have elliptical buckets, therefore one with
the higher effiiencies. reason why I suggest them.

to determine what type of turbine can be used, one needs to have all the site
parameters, like head, water volume, pipe length --

Systems with Turgos are easier to build because the turbine shaft can be
installed directly to the generator shaft therefore reducing the use of ball
bearing already available in the generator.

Peltons do require at least two extra ball bearings and the coupling to the
generator.

Nando

After five years of false claims Hartvigsen admits to Yahoo microhydro group copyright does not apply to Turgo design, June, 4, 2010

"Mea Culpa" Hartvigsen Admits Fraudulent Intellectual Property Claims to Yahoo Microhydro Group , June, 4, 2010


[microhydro] Copyright Protection - Mea Culpa
Friday, June 4, 2010 6:39 PM
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To the moderator and members of the group: I apologize in advance for bringing this topic up again. I know there has been a decision to cut off this thread of discussion, so feel free to ignore it if you are not interested. If you are only marginally interested skip to the bottom for a summary.

In the past I HAVE REPEATEDLY ASKED TO RON to stop this nonsense :

So, here is my offer. I will post an email message stating my corrected understanding of the limited protection of copyright to this circumstance and that due to my mistake in not requiring a non-copy condition of sale I don't have any power to prohibit Ron from making copies of the original orange plastic spoon.

In turn Ron will post an email retracting all of his false accusations against me and Peter.

In particular, admitting that.

1) I was not fraudulently trying to rip him off in this matter because Peter and I had a reasonable belief there was some protection based on copyright.

2) Ingella Carlson and ... are who we said they were.

3) I did not withhold any information regarding his invention from my employer.

4) had I had the foresight to require a non-copy agreement as a condition of sale he would have been prohibited from making copies contractually.

5) Ron, using phony email addresses was the one who dragged this whole thing out in public to start with.

This has come back up because one of Ron's friends hired a lawyer to represent Ron on this issue, again an issue I've tried to drop since it was clear nearly ten years ago that there was no reaching an agreement. I met with the lawyer several months ago. He gave a different view of the protection of copyright than I had been given in an informal discussion of the matter years previous with another patent attorney.

Ron's attorney explained that copyright can cover the appearance of an item but not the functional aspects. I argued that since Ron was using the part as his mold core (i.e. to create his mold by molding around this part) he was making a direct impression of the part and thereby it would have the same appearance. He was not just using the concept or something similar. Ron's attorney explained that even so, since it was a functional item the courts focus on that rather than the appearance. He suggested I look at wikipedia on copyrights and specifically for functional aspects which I did. My response to him that day is copied below.

>>>>
Hi Brian,
Thank you for taking the time to meet and discuss Ron's concerns with me today. I have reviewed portions of the wiki article on copyright and taken particular note of the "functional aspects" and "Scènes à faire" discussions. This does give a different view that I had taken away from several readings of the Copyrights Basics (circ01.pdf file on copyrights.gov) circular and from a previous discussion of the matter with an attorney. It appears that copyright protection of this spoon , even though it is an "original work fixed in a tangible form of expression" could be considered "thin" because of the functional nature of the article - in spite of the fact that circ01 claims the protected categories "should be viewed broadly".

For my part, I was ready to drop this matter several years ago but felt compelled to defend my position when the topic was broached by Ron in a public forum. I suspect Ron still feels the need to defend his position. I am willing to agree to disagree privately and to drop the matter publicly. I have no interest in engaging Ron further on this issue and have repeatedly told him so. I can't speak for Peter (who I believe is the current owner of whatever there is to be owned in this regard), but his actions over the years, or lack of taking formal actions, would suggest that he is of a similar feeling in the matter.

It has never been my objective to hinder Ron's work with the watermotor or Camp Nuevo. In fact I have tried to help him as far as I was able, subject to my agreements with and my obligation to protect what I believe rightly belonged to Peter or earlier to Mrs. Ingela Carlsson. In the interim, I have designed, fabricated molds and produced parts for a new range of sizes some of which would be potentially applicable to Ron's watermotor projects. Since there has been a considerable investment in the creation of these new parts and since Ron and I don't share the same view on copying, unless otherwise constrained by law we would have to address copying in the terms and conditions prior to any future sales to Ron.

Regards,

Joe

>>>

A further communication to Ron's attorney follows.

>>>
After our conversation ... I followed your suggestion to read on wikipedia and copyrights.gov related to functional aspects of a design, I found the following beyond the circ01.pdf from copyrights.gov that I had referred Ron to in support of my understanding of the mater (some of the wiki content has since changed).

This is the main link of interest pertaining to the question.
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl103.html
This also has some relevant discussion in the section on "Copyrightable" (last paragraph - content no longer there)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#.22Copyrightable.22_as_a_word
Basically confirming your claim that the functionally dictated aspects are not protected by copyright,
and even a design patent doesn't really help with the functional aspect of the specific profile
of a functional item.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent#Comparison_to_utility_patents

However, I have also read and I don't have the citation at hand that in some countries (Britain ? ) not only can a mechanical drawing be copyright, but the copyright protection also extends to using the drawing to make the article shown in the copyright drawing or blueprint. If the drawing can't be used to make the article, then the use of the article (which is intrinsically and automatically copyright) directly as the mold form should also be prohibited. This is not the case in the US apparently.

So there seems to be a grey area which while it might be difficult to enforce copyright as protection, it would also be difficult to show (in conjunction with circ01) that there are no aspects of the copyright that were being violated (i.e. claims of copyright protection being 100% without basis). It is all too technical for me and I don't have any interest (and never did) in pursuing it. The only reason is was ever brought up beyond myself, Peter and Ron is that Ron dragged it out in every forum he could because he thinks I am a liar and a cheat...

So, here is my offer. I will post an email message stating my corrected understanding of the limited protection of copyright to this circumstance and that due to my mistake in not requiring a non-copy condition of sale I don't have any power to prohibit Ron from making copies of the original orange plastic spoon.

In turn Ron will post an email retracting all of his false accusations against me and Peter.

In particular, admitting that

1) I was not fraudulently trying to rip him off in this matter because Peter
and I had a reasonable belief there was some protection based on copyright.

2) Ingella Carlson and ... are who we said they were.

3) I did not withhold any information regarding his invention from my employer.

4) had I had the foresight to require a non-copy agreement as a condition of
sale he would have been prohibited from making copies contractually.

5) Ron, using phony email addresses was the one who dragged this whole thing
out in public to start with.

>>>

So, in summary:
1) I never wanted to bring this to the group before or now but am doing so at Ron's insistence. I was willing to drop it or agree to disagree, but that was not acceptable to Ron, and I am tired of his harassment over this issue after 10 years of me trying to drop it.

2) In the USA at least, copyright does not offer the protection that I had been told it did, and that it appeared to give by my reading of circ01.pdf on copyrights.gov

3) In some countries, copyright does preclude a person from using a copyright article to create a copy of what is described by that article. So, it is possible that there is some level of protection in some countries.

4) Had I had the benefit of hindsight I could have avoided this whole mess by making no-copy a contractual condition of sale.

5) Some people will think it is wrong to copy whether it is legal or not. Some people will think it is ok to copy whether it is illegal or not.

6) Peter and I (and I am not speaking for Peter in any of this) had reasonable belief that what we were asking of Ron was fair and legal.

7) Other than my incorrect understanding of copyright protection, all other accusations Ron has been making against Peter and myself are totally false and without basis.

Joe

Friday, August 13, 2010

Open letter to Wim Klunne, March 11, 09

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Open Letter to Wim Klunne, Otto Rike (Ron Davis) March 11,2009





Open letter to Wim Klunne, http://microhydropower.net e-group site owner

Wim,
It is obvious that Joseph Hartvigsen and "Nando" knew beforehand, that you would not allow me to reply to their very damaging accusations and rantings recently made about me and my product on your site.
Therefore, they feel free to post anything libelous they please, as they have done.
Then, you, by preventing my replies, deliberately mislead the members into believing I have actually made no attempt to defend myself or my product.
The members should know you have been doing this for years.
Why you run your site this way is beyond my understanding.

I do know, and can prove to anyone's satisfaction, that you have been a active party from the beginning to Hartvigsen's and Ruyter's "Widow Carlson" fraudulent attempt to take over the public domain Swedish turgo turbine design we use.
Hartvigsen had already been using this fictitious story for years, with never any proof provided that their Widow Ingela Carlson existed.
Just threats and insults, as you saw.

You were later informed that the Swedish police, government welfare agencies, and five detective agencies found no proof that such a person ever existed. A $1000 dollar reward offered in eleven Swedish newspapers had the same result.
You had been repeatedly told there was no such person even before you allowed Hartvigsen's Dec. 12, 05 posting to the group (below), (which you have now removed from the archives).

http://www.mail-archive.com/microhydro@yaho.../msg01659.html

(Many other statements made in this posting can be shown to be completely untrue simply by reading the early group archives.(http://microhydropower.net, search: turgo))

Now, after years of allowing Hartvigsen to tell the members that the reason my turbines are illegal is because his partner Ruyter bought the design from the widow of the still un-named designer, who I am cheating out of her legitimate royalty payments, you are still allowing Hartvigsen and "Nando" to continue to make the same ownership claim on your site, but now without the widow Carlson story!
"Nando" is now saying, Forget the Widow!

You must really think the members are stupid. What an insult to the group!
Tell me, who do Hartvigsen and Ruyter now claim to have bought the design from, and who am I now supposed to be cheating out of their rightful royalty payments?
Did you bother to ask? Obviously not!
Yet you continue to allow Hartvigsen "Nando" to make the same accusations against me on your site, still telling the world that my turbines are illegal.

By this mis-use of the trust you have assumed as the world's largest microhydro e-group site owner you are consciously and deliberately providing the means for Hartvigsen and Ruyter to defraud the Yahoo microhydro group and the world-wide microhydro community into believing that they own a valuable design, which is actually in public domain.
You are being an active party to Internet fraud and libel against me.

It would be appropriate for you to make a statement to the group regarding this matter.

In any case I have to insist on being able to face my accusers.
I intend, one way or the other, to make the truth of this matter known.

Ron Davis
watermotor.net
watermotor@yahoo.com
wim klunne joseph hartvigsen brian kunzler peter ruyter swedish patent office microhydro holland fraud swedish patent office watermotor

Return of the Spoonwheel--turgo tech description

This 6 page paper provides a technical description of what is now the "turgo" water turbine
design and how it was derived from the highly efficient ancient folk design called the Spoonwheel.

http://www.waset.org/journals/waset/v28/v28-38.pdf

Libel, Fraud, Extortion--Description of Hartvigsen fraudulent turgo design ownership claim problem to SLC patent attorney Brian Kunzler March 22, 09

Libel, Fraud, Extortion--Description of Hartvigsen fraudulent turgo design ownership claim problem to SLC patent attorney Brian Kunzler March 22, 09


Watermotor Turbine design ownership dispute in Bolivia
Sunday, March 22, 2009 5:16 PM
From:
"davis ron"
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To:
kunzler@kmiplaw.com
Dear Mr. Kunzler,

I am an "appropriate technology" inventor from California living for
many years in Bolivia. My wife, Diane Bellomy, and I have a private aid project here called Campo Nuevo, a 17 year old volunteer program working in state children's homes called Los Amigos del Hogar, as well as a 30 year old textile art business called Artesania Sorata. (artesaniasorata.com)

On the appropriate technology side our chief project has been to develop a small water powered turbine which can be used to drive machines such as grain mills and woodworking tools directly with water power--a "Watermotor" (watermotor.net).
There was an article about this project in Home Power Magazine (June/July 1999)

I spent considerable time and expense on this project, including building and testing many turbines wheels before finally settling on a "turgo" type turbine design from Sweden being offered to the members of the Yahoo microhydro e-group. There was absolutely no assertion of design ownership made at the time.

For this turbine wheel I designed and patented a unique power control system which allows the turbine power output to be controlled as easily as that of an electric motor, allowing it to be safely used to directly drive machines.
(This device is shown in animation on the watermotor.net web site)

We conducted the first laboratory testing of this turbine wheel, built a rural demonstration site over the Andes from La Paz to show it running a variety of machines (see watermotorturbine on Youtube), produced a video, website and set up production.

Then, after all this, an engineer in Salt Lake City named Joseph Hartvigsen, who had seen our video, began claiming that his partner in Sweden owned the Swedish turbine wheel design, and that I now owed him $32 per turbine as "royalty" payments.
That began about eight years ago.
It was Hartvigsen himself who had originally suggested we use this turgo turbine, which he himself had called an "orphan" design.

Hartvigsen and his new "partner" in Sweden, Peter Ruyter, began telling a story that the design came from an old widow in Sweden named Ingela Carlsson, whose husband had invented it, and that Ruyter had bought the design from her. Hartvigsen now said it was protected by an "un-registered copyright".

They have publicly accused me to my colleagues worldwide on the Yahoo microhydro e-group, as they do to this day, of cheating her out of royalty payments.

I told them many times that I would be very willing to discuss royalty payments if they could only prove there was any such person as the Widow Ingela Carlsson, and proof of sale of the design to Ruyter, and that as an "un-registered copyright" the design was protected for a functioning internal machine part here in Bolivia.

In fact I had made substantial changes to the original design by producing it in metal(the original was plastic)changing the shape, color, weight, etc.

Their widow Carlsson story was suspect from the beginning. They could not say where she lived, what her husband's(the inventor)name was, nor produce any proof of Ruyter's purchase of the design, or cite the date of this purchase.

The Swedish patent office told me that anyone claiming design protection was expected to be able to prove it. They said they had no registered copyrights or patents at all on this type of turbine.

I wrote to the Swedish police in every department of the country, the Swedish government census offices, and welfare agencies, and the Swedish microhydro association looking for an Ingela Carlson and her husband without results.

I also offered a $1000 reward to five Swedish detective agencies and posted a reward offer in eleven Swedish newspapers---without any results at all.

My conclusion is that the entire widow Ingella Carlson story is a complete hoax fabricated by Hartvigsen and Ruyter in order to take over a design in public domain by fraud, after I had spent years working on developing it.

Over seven years neither they, nor anyone else has been able to prove any such person as this widow, who they tell everyone I am cheating, exists.

Hartvigsen has almost certainly told everyone he knows and works with the story of the widow he is protecting, so it would be very damaging to him for it to be shown to be a complete fabrication.

I also believe he was telling this story to his co-workers at Ceramatec when they were testing a anaerobic setting cellulose fiber re-inforced silicone rubber compound (FiberSil) I had invented and, at Hartvigsen's suggestion, submitted to Ceramatec for testing.
Later I learned from Hartvigsen himself that he and the new company owner, Ashok Joshi, had made themselves "co-inventors" of my compound, and for years had kept my business correspondence to Ceramatec out of the company official files.

A central idea behind my Watermotor design was to develop a small turbine which could be locally produced in small workshops all over the "third world". I would never have chosen a copyright or patented turbine wheel design. It seemed as though Hartvigsen and Ruyter deliberately waited until I had done all the work to develop the Watermotor before beginning their takeover campaign against me.
In other words, it was a set-up.

Since then there has been an unrelenting effort to destroy my Watermotor project and my reputation in the microhydro community.
They contact my clients and convince them to cancel their orders.
They sent someone to threaten my co-workers here in Bolivia.
Defamatory messages about me and my product are posted on the Yahoo microhydro e-group site, to which the list owner does not allow me to reply.

Ruyter has sent me photos of himself with guns, and made threats. He has publicly denounced me as a "turbine terrorist".

I have many, many e-mails proving everything I have told you here.
I will send you some examples, if I may. There is a very recent posting to the microhydro e-group repeating his claims.

The Watermotor is my life's work and I simply cannot let these individuals destroy it out of their greed.
Please help us if you can.


P.S. My wife and I may have to return to the U.S. in order for her to be treated at the CDC in Atlanta. My doctor has advised living at a lower altitude for me because of a heart and lung condition. I am 62. (La Paz is at 12,500 ft.)

All the best, and thank you for reading this.

Ron Davis,
Campo Nuevo,
La Paz, Bolivia

Hartvigsen agrees to provide attorney with proof of turgo design ownership. Jan. 28, 09

Hartvigsen agrees to provide attorney with proof of turgo design ownership. Jan. 28, 09

Re: Claimed royalty rights of turgo design
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:01 PM
From:
"Joseph Hartvigsen"
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To:
watermotor@yahoo.com
Ron,
I will not discuss this further with you. If you wish to use the services of an attorney I will be happy to discuss the situation with him. He (or she) may contact me directly with the name, address and phone number of the law firm so that I can verify the contact information is from a real law firm using public directories. I will then establish contact and address the issue directly with the attorney.

Joe




----- Original Message ----
From: davis ron
To: joe@h-hydro.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:59:04 PM
Subject: Claimed royalty rights of turgo design


Mr. Hartvigsen,


I am planning to send a shipment of the turgo runners we produce here in Bolivia to the U.S.
You have repeatedly threatened to use the U.S. Custom Service to prevent the entry of my runners claiming them to be illegal copies of a turgo design which you say is legally owned by someone in Sweden and who you say has authorized you to collect royalty payments.
May I ask you to provide my lawyer whatever proof of your intellectual property claims the documentation you would present to the U.S.Customs Service?
If you are unable to do this please inform my lawyer.

All the best,
Ron Davis
watermotor.net


Progress on Watermotor project , etc. Sept. 12, 2000

Turgo Watermotor Sept. 12,2000


Dear George,

Yes, we are using turgo wheels we buy from Joseph Hartvigsen. And we
love them. We also would like to know more about them. We run them with
a 18 m net fall and about 410 liters per minute through four 11.1 nozzles at our demo
site.
Great power! Great torque! Starts up a compressor instantly even
with 100 p.s.i. back pressure. What the ultimate strength is, at what
pressure, rpms, and jet size, would all be great to know. And we feel
that it would be worth finding out. We are about to ask the University Hydraulic
Institute here to run some tests. They can pump pressure to 75m.

Something we really need is a dynamometer. This would allow us to do all
these little tuning jobs with highly accurate feedback. Things like jet
sizes, mixes of jet sizes, turbine ''spoon'' rake angle, jet angle (on both
planes) and so on. This is an important part of serious design work.

The dynamometer would need to measure from .5--5 hp at 500 to 5000 rpm,
more or less. I have drawings of old prony brakes and actually built one
years ago, ---much larger. I don't know how we can be doing hydropower
without such a basic tool.

We have also built a larger turgo Watermotor with a 6'' h.d. turgo
wheel with spoons cast from recycled car piston aluminum , using Joseph's
larger turgo ''spoons''' as models, but have not run it yet.
It can use jets up to 1 inch, or four times the volume of water as the 3.5 inch plastic blue spoon turgo runner model we have been running for the last several months.
By the way, we now have a short video filmed at our eastern Andean demo site which shows the Watermotor driving a table saw, 4'' joiner, drill, metal cut-off disk,
alternator, and air compressor------all in seven minutes.

Attached here is our Home Power magazine article 'Waterpower in the Andes'(June/July 1999)
as well as photos of the Turgo Watermotor at our demo site and the patent
drawings for our turgo control device.

Ron

Hartvigsen to group "I sat on the spoons for about a year ....." Feb. 2002.

Re: Aspen Hollow Hydro Site Tour


Hi Paul,
It's a bit of a long story closely tied to the history of this group,
but since you asked - here it is.

I'm using a runner I built using turgo spoons from Cargo & Kraft in
Sweden. I ran your plastic pelton for about the first 3 years after I
put the system together. In fact I called and spoke with you on the
phone when I was just getting started. I wasn't really satisfied with
the performance of my system (and being an engineer I'm still not) and
thought that perhaps part of the problem was in the shallow exit angle
of the plastic pelton runner. Your bronze turgo wasn't out at the time
or at least I'd only seen the plastic one. I really really wanted one
of Dan New's (Canyon Industries) beautiful pelton runners but couldn't
afford it. Your bronze turgo is also very nice, but out of my budget
as well - and made for a 17mm alternator thread while I was running a
3 hp 3-phase motor.

I'd been exchanging hydro pictures and discussion with Peter Ruyter
(Cargo & Kraft) in Sweden and he sent me some plastic turgo spoons
that had come into his posession. I sat on the spoons for about a
year before I built a 16 spoon runner (using the larger "orange
spoons") which has a pitch diameter of about 6 inches, using stainless
sheet and plate cut on a CNC waterjet for the hub. Then in March of
1999, a fellow egroup member, Ron Davis, who had been running a dual
ES&D pelton scheme in his Bolivian Watermotor wanted to try a runner
using the smaller "blue spoons". I had a hub set made from Delrin for
the blue spoons and Ron tried it in his watermotor. He has
subsequently re-designed the watermotor around the 20 blue spoon and
16 orange spoon runners.

Then a student in a RE degree program at Appalachian State University
in Boone NC, Marcus Renner, wanted a blue spoon runner with arbor for
an alternator after his friend Scott Sudreth built one using the blue
spoons. I don't recal how we all got connected, through the egroup
somehow. Since then I've built a couple of dozen runners for people
all over the world, from the ~ 3.5" blue spoon (20 spoons) to orange
spoon runners from 16-30 spoons (6-9.25") and supplied spoons for a
few people who have built their own runners.

At this point in my life I am not in this to make a living, but the
IRS wants me to make a profit. I'm a chemical engineer whose real job
is fuel cell R&D, but microhydro sometimes seems like more fun. I do
tell people if they want a nice turnkey unit to look at the systems
you and Don Harris build, and point them to your nice web site (does
Harris Hydroelectric have a web site?). Wim helped me put a web page
on his site, which I have since moved and expanded. My web site is
pretty basic, but I think there is still some good stuff on it, like
the spreadsheet momentum balance for impulse runners showing the
effect of exit and entrance angles.

http://www.geocities.com/turgo_gen/
http://www.geocities.com/turgo_gen/turgo_drive.html

To me the biggest problem with microhydro for battery charging is the
electronics to control charging, and step down from a high voltage
(relative to the battery bank) AC or DC transmission line while
keeping the turbine at its ideal load rpm. Your variable air gap
system is one approach if the battery bank is near the turbine, but I
think we all need a nice electronic box to do that so a variety of
motors from local sources could be used.

I'm glad to see you are now involved in the group.

Joe
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Nando on Hartvigsen's claims, tachometer Sep. 05

scamstopper

Friday, June 23, 2006
> > > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 09:44:44 -0700 (PDT)
> > > From: davis ron
> > > Subject: letter to ruyter sept.1 05
> > > To: turbin@cargo-kraft.se
> > >
> > > Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
> > > From: "davis ron" View
> > > Contact
> > > Details
> > > Subject: peter ruyter
> > > To:
> > >
> > >
> > > Sept.1, 05
> > >
> > > Dear Peter,
> > >
> > > I have received yet another letter from a
> member of
> > > the micro-hydro group who has been led to
> believe
> > > that
> > > you and Hartvigsen have the legal right to
> collect
> > > “royalties” on the manufacture of the turgo
> spoon
> > > design that you and he are selling. While, as
> you
> > > saw,
> > > from his email, Hartvigsen, under pressure, has
> > > admitted that you have no such right, I think
> that
> > > it
> > > would be a good idea to make sure that everyone
> in
> > > the
> > > micro-hydro group is aware of this.
> > > True to his nature, while Hartvigsen is
> admitting
> > > that you hold no patent right for which to
> collect
> > > royalties, as you saw he now says that you have
> > > “design” rights for which royalties should be
> paid.
> > > I
> > > strongly suspect that this is another Hartvigsen
> > > charade.
> > >
> > > I remember that by your own accounts neither
> you
> > > nor
> > > Harvigsen had any part in the designing these
> turgo
> > > spoons, had ever seen a turbine with one of
> these
> > > turgo wheels running, or could even tell me
> where
> > > there was one working..
> > > So, one last time, if you have any legitimate
> > > claim
> > > to collect money from me for this turgo spoon
> > > design,
> > > tell me now.
> > >
> > > I want to point out that Hartvigsen never made
> any
> > > claim that there were proprietary rights
> (patent) on
> > > the spoons until AFTER I had designed and
> patented
> > > my
> > > Watermotor turbine which cost me a great deal of
> > > time
> > > and money. These “royalties” would have been the
> > > biggest single expense of building the turbine!
> > > Such
> > > is his honesty!
> > >
> > > Initially, Hartvigsen said the royalties he
> was
> > > demanding of me were to go to a poor Swedish
> widow.
> > > But neither of you were willing to provide
> proof of
> > > the existence of the widow you were claiming to
> be
> > > paying royalties to. Or provide a patent number
> on
> > > the
> > > spoons. While you have claimed to be in touch
> with
> > > this widow, you will not actually tell us where
> she
> > > is. You said that I would have to go to Sweden
> to
> > > meet
> > > her! Yes, Honest Peter!
> > >
> > > In order to enforce his fraudulent demands for
> > > “royalty” payments on the large turgo spoons
> which I
> > > was producing here in Bolivia, Hartvigsen
> actually
> > > refused to sell me any more of the smaller spoon
> for
> > > the my smaller Watermotor turbine, therefore
> > > preventing me from producing them.
> > > . I think that this is called extortion.
> > >
> > > As you saw from his email, Hartvigsen is now
> > > saying,
> > > without explanation that the money was not
> actually
> > > going to a poor widow in Sweden, but to YOU, and
> > > that
> > > you were the author of a secret deal made with
> > > him—apparently a secret agreement to
> fraudulently
> > > pretend that you had the right to collect
> royalties
> > > from me.
> > >
> > >
> > > I am asking once again for you to respond and
> > > discuss these matters as a responsible adult and
> a
> > > professional. I am sure that, like some others,
> > > including myself, you were convinced that
> Hartvigsen
> > > was an honorable responsible, and truthful
> > > individual.
> > > With strong religious convictions and a deep
> respect
> > > for his family. I give you permission to request
> any
> > > emails between us so that you may find to your
> own
> > > satisfaction how truthful he is. In exchange I
> > > request
> > > that you share any emails regarding this matter
> with
> > > me.
> > > Once again I urge you, for your own good, to
> put
> > > this matter to rest. Please do not make the
> mistake
> > > of
> > > thinking that you can simply ignore my messages
> and
> > > that this will somehow go away. I promise you
> it
> > > will
> > > not! This matter has cost me a great deal or
> time
> > > and
> > > money, and unless someone can show me where I
> have
> > > made some mistake on my side other than trusting
> > > individuals who do not deserve trust, I will
> > > continue
> > > pursue it—trust me on that!
> > > I am a reasonable person, and am giving you a
> > > chance
> > > to explain your part in this matter. If you
> refuse
> > > to
> > > do so I can only assume that you have no excuse
> to
> > > offer.
> > > Ron Davis
> > >
Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:49:10 -0800 (PST)
From: "davis ron" View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Fwd: Re: Hartvigsen
To: kenhhall@earthlink.net



--- HYDRO wrote:

> From: "HYDRO"
> To: "davis ron"
> Subject: Re: Hartvigsen
> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:32:59 -0500
>
> Ron;
>
> No, I have not sent a copy to Joe at all.
> Also, I see that you are planning to send my private
> message to a site, and
> that is NOT right, it is a private message to you
> and should stay as such --
> So, Please do not send it no anybody.
>
> It seems that you have a problem with JOE because he
> has requested royalties
> for the copies you are making of the Turgo Spoons he
> sold to you, it is your
> decision to pay or not pay royalties for the copying
> that seems you have
> done, if I read your message right.
>
> With what you wrote in your message, recognizing
> that you copied the spoons
> he sold to you. if you were in this country ( USA)
> he would be able to sue
> you and get a judge to penalized you for such
> copying.
>
> I do not want to be involved at all, with this
> situation, between you and
> Joe, it is your decision to continue or drop the
> issue.
>
> Is he demanding for a solution or it is you alone
> that is pursuing the issue
> ?.
>
> Regards
>
> Nando

Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:50:35 -0800 (PST)
From: "davis ron" View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Fwd: Re: hartvigsen
To: kenhhall@earthlink.net



--- HYDRO wrote:

> From: "HYDRO"
> To: "davis ron"
> Subject: Re: hartvigsen
> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:18:45 -0500
>
> Ron:
>
> I will be in Santa Cruz, Bolivia from the 15 of
> September until the 14 of
> October
>
> I was selling some mechanical tachometers and I
> offered Joe if He wanted
> one and He said yes and since He knew I have more of
> them, He asked if I
> could send one to you that He will pay for it, so I
> sent one to you in
> addition of one of my DVMs that I had extra.
>
> So He paid for the Tachometer, by the way that
> Tachometer when new, the
> cost were much more than U$350.00 each, so He give
> You a very good piece of
> equipment, also He asked me not to tell You that He
> paid for it,
>
> Remember I did not try to charge You any money for
> the items sent to You.
>
> No, Joe never have tried to use me, I respect him
> and He does the same to
> me.
>
> No, He has not told me about to sue him, this I told
> you, because I have
> done it to somebody that took a design from me
> without paying for it, it
> cost him 5 times what He should have paid if He
> behaved properly
>
> I would tell You my type of work and You may define
> and, as well, answer
> yourself the question you have asked me.
>
> I have done electronic and mechanical design
> engineering for many years;
> producing products that had many uses, from land,
> marine, air and space, and
> many of those products did not have a patent of any
> type and still the
> products, many times, were sold and because it had
> company proprietary work
> and designs when another company wanted to produce
> some of these products
> there were always payment for the acquired know how
> from my company that
> many times were in the millions, and remember no
> patents were involved,
> just "know how" that my company paid for it (
> employees working the project,
> the equipment bought to accomplish such project and
> all man hours that are
> paid to complete the project) SO I ASK you, put
> yourself in the opposite
> side, think that you have developed a piece of
> equipment that cost, let's
> say U$500,000 dollars to produced and you produce
> and sell some and then
> find out that somebody started to copy you, what
> would you do -- CAN YOU
> TELL ME !!.
>
> > By the way, did Hartvigsen ever tell you that his
> > siter, or sister-in-law, was a hard core junkie?
>
> Ron with this remark you have indicated that you
> are attacking him and
> hitting his back because you do not have grounds to
> stand in relation to the
> problem on hand.
> I never have known about his Sister, though he has
> talked to me many times
> about his family.
>
> CAN YOU tell me, have you sent ANY OF MY MESSAGE TO
> YOU to anyone or not ?>
> If so, to whom !!
>
> NOW think that you did not have a patent to cover
> your project, do still
> have rights to your design or NOT, can you reply to
> me on this ??
>
> The best for you
>
> Nando
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "davis ron"
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 4:03 PM
> Subject: hartvigsen
>
>
> >
> >
> > Nando,
> >
> >
> > When did Hartvigsen tell you that he, or his
> buddy
> > in Sweden had a patent on the turgo spoons? How
> would
> > you feel if you found out that it was a lie? Would
> you
> > care that they were trying to rip me off? What if
> it
> > was you they were doing this to? How would you
> like
> > it?
> > Did he tell you that he could sue me in the U.S.?
> > Who's idea was it to send me the tachometer?
> > Hartvigsen said that he paid for it. Tell me what
> that
> > was all about. What was he up to? Do you think
> > thatperhaps he has been using you?
> > By the way, did Hartvigsen ever tell you that his
> > siter, or sister-in-law, was a hard core junkie?
> It
> > was one of the first things he told about his
> family.I
> > could never figure out why.
> > What do you think his motive was?
> >

RO wrote:

> From: "HYDRO"
> To: "davis ron"
> Subject: Re: $350.00 tachometer
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 19:13:06 -0500
>
> RON:
>
> Cool off, I never said that JOE paid U$350.00; I
> CLEARLY SAID : by the way
> that Tachometer when new, the cost were ( was -
> error here) much more than
> U$350.00 each.( SEE message dated : THURSDAY,
> SEPTEMBER 01, 2005 11:18 PM ).
> Joe paid a price that you, as well, knew because I
> offered to you at the
> same price that Joe was offered for and he paid it
> for me to send it to you
> and at the same time I sent my own DVM to you and
> even though I gave you a
> price, when the items arrived I said to forget it
> and that we will meet
> together one of these days for lunch and spend the
> money or something like
> that.
>
>
> I do not want that you continue attacking me without
> any reason, You are
> delirious, you are behaving like you have a
> persecution problem, I am not
> hunting you at all, check all my messages.
>
> Forget this situation that you are setting not for
> your benefit but for
> somebody else benefit, and it is not for me, I am
> not interested, stop
> looking for guilty consciences, better look into
> yourself and stop this
> nonsense, I am not your enemy, and the way you are
> behaving you are starting
> to show that you are the guilty one; drop the case
> -- I do not want to start
> asking questions --.
>
> The absurd price for the tachometer because I was
> not interested in making
> money, I had more than 1/2 dozen and all were sold
> at that ridiculous prices
> to people that were working MicroHydro, like you my
> way to give help to you
> and others, it seems that you have a VERY GUILTY
> CONSCIENCE, so stop looking
> for human bodies to blame for things that are not
> real.
>
> Either you change your message content completely as
> always before this
> problem or do not send any more messages to me --
> disgusting situation you
> are trying to embark me into.
>
> If you continue I will close my email to you.
>
> Regards
>
> Nando
>
>
>
>
Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:45:10 -0000
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To: "davis ron"
Subject: Message not approved: swedish patent office re: Swedish turgo spoons Ruyter design rights?

Dear Ron,

The message I blocked from going to the whole group seemed to me like
meant for Joe only. I do understand now that that was a
misinterpretation.
As the microhydro group is configured in such a way that replies to
messages from the group go to all members, it often happens that
people hit the reply button while only intending to reply to the
sender and not to the whle group.
I thought that that was the case with your message and that was the
only reason I blocked the message. To avoid unneccessary traffic in
the group and to avoid situations were private messages go to all
members. Me blocking the message has nothing to do with the content
of the conversation and whether I agree or disagree with you, Peter
or Joe.
I hope this makes the situation clear and shows that there was no bad
intention at all by blocking you message. Your message was just one
of the many messages I do block from going to the group, because they
are SPAM, promotional messages, virusses or, as in your case, in my
view not meant for the whole group. It was certainly not a situation
of refusing your message but rather preventing your message to go to
all at the group.
I am most willing to let the message underneath go to the group as
well, but would prefer you to remove the section on me refusing to
let your message through.

Kind regards,



Wim





>
> Dear Group,
>
> This morning Wim refused to post a message from me
> asking for comments from Peter Ruyter regarding
> Hartvigsens statement that he has a right to collect
> payment for the use of the turgo spoon design in
> question. Since Hartvigsen claims to be collecting
> money on his behalf, I think that this is appropriate.
>
>
> I have written to Peter Ruyter a number of times
> asking him to clarify Hartvigsens claims that he
> (Ruyter) has the right to collect "royalties" on the
> turgo design I build here in Bolivia.
> I have also asked to see the agreement Hartvigsen
> claims to have with him to collect money from me even
> without patent rights.
>
> I think that as a waterpower professional working
> for Cargo and Kraft and as a member of this group that
> Ruyter has an obligation to address this issue brought
> up by Hartvigsen. I is not acceptable that he simply
> ignore this issue while Hartvigsen continues to assert
> that I owe him money.
> I recently received a message from a prominent
> member of the microhydro group claiming that
> Hartvigsen could sue me for patent violation. I will
> provide this on request.
> As to the "design rights" that Hartvigsen claims
> that Ruyter owns on these turgo spoons, I could find
> none listed with the Swedish patent office. Beside, as
> you can see from the patent office statement, "design
> rights" refer to appearence only. Like color.
> As so far as Hartvigsens claim that I am trying to
> discredit him: patent rights and design rights are by
> nature public information. If someone is demanding
> "royalties" that they are not entititled to
> (especially someone who knows what the term royalties
> legally means), are they not discrediting themselves?
> We need to hear from Peter Ruyter and his company
> Cargo and Kraft.
>
>
> FROM:
>
> Swedish patent office
> Industrial Design
> Design refers to the appearance of a product. When
> we talk about design protection, we are talking only
> about protection of the form or appearance. Patent
> protection is required for the underlying technical
> idea or function.
>
>

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:08:17 -0800 (PST)
From: "davis ron" View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Fwd: Re: Turgo design from Sweden
To: wim@microhydropower.net

Dec. 20, 05

Dear Wim,

I asked Ruyter if he wanted his message below posted
to the group. It is in derect reply to my question on
the group site regarding the right Hartvigsen claims
he has to collect money on his behalf to produce the
turgo design we use here in Bolivia.

He has not answered. I have been waiting to hear from
them before answering what Hartvigsen wrote in detail.


I see that Hartvigsen has simply decided to ignore
the issue he has placed before the group. He was asked
to provide the number of Ruyter's "design rights" he
claims to be protecting.

He is now writing about alternators.

I think that this is a bit insulting to the group.

One thing is true, this has been going on for years.
Hartvigsen tells people I am ripping off the turgo
design and cheating Ruyter. I have written to Ruyter
many times to ask if I owe him money as Hartvigsen
says, and for what exactly.
These messages he ignores and they both go right on
telling people I am a crook for not paying them off.

I think demanding money fraudulently for non-existent
patent or design rights is against the law in all
countries. Maybe on the Internet too. No?

As you see in his message about me to the group
Hatvigsen is STILL claiming that he has the right to
collect money for this design on Ruyter's behalf.
He is clearly trying to deceive the entire group if no
such rights exist.
As you can see in Ruyter's letter, he is very sorry
for himself and angry. They say that I have attempted
to turn everyone in the group against by asking for
proof for the "design rights" they tell everyone they
own.
I think that asking to see proof of what they claim
is true could only shame them if they are shown to be
crooks.
This is very childlike.
Like children they have no concern or regret for the
years of trouble they have caused us or cost our
businees.
Just anger that their plan has failed and exposed
them.

We consider what Ruyter has written in this last
message a threat, which perhaps all the group members
should be aware of.

Maybe you shoud ask the Yahoo authorities who manage
your group about how we should respond? I know that
both Hartvigsen and Ruyter would do any harm to us
they thought they could get awy with.

All the best,

Ron Davis

P.S. Much of what Hartvigsen says to justify hismself
in his message to the group is simply untrue--such as
I was making direct plastic or metal copies of the
spoons with a rubber mold.
All my spoons are a different size from the ones he
sells, and are bronze or aluminium cast in sand.
Of course, since as we now know, they have no actual
rights at all to the design, what differance would it
make what I was doing?
Hartvigsen first began to talk about "royalties"
AFTER I had designed the Watermotor to use the spoons
Ruyter was selling and AFTER I had started the
two-year-long patent process for the power control
system I invented. (By the way, that was the first
patent issued in Bolivia for a machine invention in 6
years.)
I would be willing to present a U.S. embassy
notorized sworn copy of all in order to examine this
matter.


Here is Ruyter's last letter message:



--- Peter Ruyter wrote:

> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:13:13 +0100
> To: davis ron
> From: Peter Ruyter
> Subject: Re: Plasticspoons
> CC: Joseph Hartvigsen
>
> Mr Davis!
> Nobody have ever talked about any form of patent,
> exept you.
> Joe have only asked for some very small, very very
> small, sum as
> ticket for dublicate our spoons. With one
> originalspoon as a master.
> You are free to set a name of that payment.
> You have dublicated spoons with our spoons as
> master. You have also
> tryed to sell them fitted as a runner in your
> "machine".
>
> You have now for years talked yourself out of any
> sense. You have
> showed the whole world your way of thinking, and
> that are not a good
> way. Everybody understand its danger to have any
> form of bussines
> with you. I can understand if you dont have any good
> result at your
> "machine-production".
>
> I think, even if I give you original spoons and
> original tools to
> calcylate, you will not be able to sell any products
> from your hands,
> beqaus you showed the whole group, you are not a
> trusty person.
> Betwinn you and me, that is not a good situation. I
> will say, its a
> catasrophe situation for you.
> If you want to communicate any moore in this matter,
> I will only
> answer posted letters and answer by posted letters.
> --
>
> Peter Ruyter
> (owner&responsible)
> Cargo & Kraft Turbin Sverige AB
> SE-739 92 SKINNSKATTEBERG
> SWEDEN

jjh@ceramatec.com, watermotor@yahoo.com, turbin@cargo-kraft.se
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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:32:46 +0100
Subject: [microhydro] discussion regarding use and design of spoons

Dear Mr Davis, Hartvigsen and Ruyter,,

For a period emails have been going around via the group regarding the
design of turgo spoons. The microhydro group is an open forum in which
issues related to microhydro can be discussed in a open and frank
matter. If the group helps in solving your apparent dispute, I am most
willing to provide you the forum for that. Up till now I have let
messages regarding this subject going through to the whole group as I
thought it of interest to everyone subscribed. However, I am afraid we
have now reached a stage where the added value to the group members has
faded.
Herewith I do ask you to settle the issue outside the forum and only
come back to us on this issue when a final agreement has been reached.
From now on I will block messages regarding this topic.
Please note that this action of mine doesn't constitute any support for
either side of this dispute and is only meant to keep the forum alive
and interesting to all members.

Please note that I copied the group in this message for sake of
transparency.

Please note that your current and past contributions to the group are
highly appreciated and I therefore urge you to keep on contributing to
the group on other issues than the subject of this message.


Kind regards,


Wim Jonker Klunne
microhydro group moderator
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:43:55 +0100
From: "Wim Jonker Klunne" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: "davis ron"
Subject: Re: ruyter, hartvigsen--my response to defamatory information-fraudulent claims

Dear Ron,

Thank you for your message.
As a moderator and web master of an information site I want to stay out of any potential difficult situation.
I have not studied your case in detail and therefore I am not able to give you any advise.
If I have information on my web site that is not correct, please inform me and I will obviously either correct it or remove it.

Kind regards,

Wim

davis ron wrote:

Feb. 20, 06

Wim,
I would like to reply to erroneous and defamatory
information that you published about me on your
microhydro website. Would you have any reasonable
objection to my doing so?
Ron Davis

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:52:31 -0800 (PST)
From: "davis ron" View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Hartvigsen Ruyter
To: wim.klunne@microhydropower.net.

Feb. 17, 06

Dear Wim,

I have written to you a number of times without
receiving a reply. Why is that? I suppose it has to do
with something Hartvigsen told you. Well, we all know
how truthful he is now.
Now that you know that Ruyter and Hartvigsen do not
have the design rights according to law as they
claimed on your microhydro site, what do you propose
to do about it? I would imagine that you would be
very interested in preventing unscrupulous individuals
from taking advantage of your site.
Ron


22 Feb 2006 18:40:49 +0100
From: "Wim Jonker Klunne" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: "davis ron"
Subject: Re: Hartvigsen-nuclear energy



···
Wim Jonker Klunne
sustainable energy and climate change expert
···

wim@microhydropower.net
http://renewables4africa.net/klunne
···
No, thank you for pointing this out.
Wim

davis ron wrote:

Feb. 22, 06

Dear Wim,
Are you aware of this?
Ron

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6614370/from/RL.2/



Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:44:46 -0800 (PST)
From: "davis ron" View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Fwd: Swedish turgo design
To: wim.klunne@microhydropower.net



--- davis ron wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:38:08 -0800 (PST)
> From: davis ron
> Subject: Swedish turgo design
> To: moderator@renewables4africa.net
>
> Mar. 3, 06
>
> Hello Wim,
>
> Has Hartvigsen been able to provide any type
> of
> proof to you of his right to collect royalties on
> the
> turgo spoons I produce here in Bolivia, as he has
> repeatedly claimed on your microhydro site? Have you
> asked him for any proof?
>
> Ron Davis
>

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:03:02 -0800 (PST)
From: "davis ron" View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Fwd: regarding Peter Ruyter and his U.S. partner Hartvigsen
To: wim.klunne@microhydropower.net



--- davis ron wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:29:59 -0800 (PST)
> From: davis ron
> Subject: regarding Peter Ruyter and his U.S. partner
> Hartvigsen
> To: turbin@cargo-kraft.se
>
> Dec. 16, 05
>
> Hello Cargo and Kraft,
>
> A hydropower business partner of Peter Ruyter
> in
> the U.S., Joseph Hartvigsen, has been telling
> various
> individuals for several years that I owe him money
> (or
> royalties) for producing turgo runners here in
> Bolivia
> for my Watermotor turbine. (watermotor.net)
> I have written to Ruyter a number of times regarding
> this and he simply refuses to reply. I told him that
> I
> would write to the authorities about this if he
> continued to allow Hartvigsen to make false
> statements
> about me.
> Hartvigsen claims to have been authorized by
> Ruyter
> to collect money from me and says that he has a
> document to this effect, but now refuses to show it
> to
> me.
> How can one legally demand royalty money without a
> patent? Isnt that against the law in Sweden? It
> certainly is here.
>
> A member of the microhydro group recently wrote
> and
> told me that Hartvigsen can take me to court I do
> not
> pay the money he is demanding for Ruyter.
>
> Ruyter has not had anything to say for himself. I
> think that if he were innocent he would say so.
>
> I see that you allow Hartvigsen to advertise on
> your
> website.
>
>
>
> I am quite willing to present a U.S. embassy a
> notorized copy of my entire email correspondance
> regarding the turgo spoons with Ruyter and
> Hartvigsen
> to the appropriate Swedish authorities.
>
> Another member of this group to which Ruyter and
> Hartvigsen belong recently asked if they had the
> right to collect royalties on the turgo spoons. Let
> me
> show you what Hartvigsen replied. Now after several
> years Hartvigsen admits that there is no patent, but
> now speaks of Ruyters "design rights". I looked at
> the
> Swedish patent office site and "design rights" only
> apply to appearance.
>
>

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Swedish Patent Office-- " The main principle is that the one who claims protection has to prove it" Feb.3, 2006

--- Hallgren Bo wrote:

> Subject: SV: Question from Bolivia--Swedish Turgo
> Design Rights, Mr. Bo Hallgren
> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 16:53:43 +0100
> From: "Hallgren Bo"
> To:
>
>
> Dear Ron Davis,
>
> Thank you for your email.
>
> The main principle is that the one who claims that
> he has a protection has to prove it.
> This means if there is a Patent or Design protection
> in the country where you produce or sell your
> product the owner of the right has to provide you
> with the registration number of his rights.
>
> Copyright is, as you might know, normally not
> registered but it is rarely the case that technical
> equipment is protected by copyright.
>
> I suggest that you consult an expertienced lawyer in
> this field.
>
> Best regards / Bo Hallgren

>

Announcement of Turgo Watermotor to Yahoo Group July 29, 2000

July 29, 2000

Dear Group,
The article about our work in Home Power # 71 last year featured a
Watermotor run by twin ES&D: plastic peltons.

We then were informed about low cost assembled turgos in two sizes by
Joe Hartvigsen, and even though we had invested a great deal of time in
the previous design decided to test it out.
It is far superior to the peltons in every way. And we have the
Watermotor set up so the turgo ''spoons'' can be replaced in minutes
without removing the shaft.
The hardest part was designing a control system, essential when
running power tools.
Ron Davis,
Campo Nuevo

Hartvigsen ".....now have available, precision stainless steel cast replicas of the orange turgospoons". Aug.4, 04

scamstopper

turgospoons.
Aug. 30, 2004

Friday evening my next door neighbor stopped by to give me a page from
his Dilbert calendar. My wife thinks it proves that I really am just a
poorly disguised Dilbert.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/microhydro/files/
dilbert19Aug04.tiff

For anyone interested, Peter Ruyter and I have produced, and now have
available, precision stainless steel cast replicas of the orange
turgospoons.

Hartvigsen-Hydro
Micro Hydro components, turgo runners
http://h-hydro.com

Hartvigsen's Post to Yahoo Microhydro Group Claiming Turgo Design Ownership, Dec.12, 2005

Hartvigsen's Post to Yahoo Microhydro Group Claiming Turgo Design, Dec.12, 2005

Saturday, July 08, 2006
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:58:31 -0000
Subject: [microhydro] Re: Swedish Turgo design

Since this posting was given anonymously, without any
background, and
is fishing for a collective group judgement and
condemnation against
me (Joe) and Peter, I'll provide the background.

The request was for what is legally public
information. No identification or explanation is
required. How could that be fishing for a judgement
against, unless you cannot back up your claims?


First, the inquirer he didn't identify himself. The
question is
(either directly or indirectly) coming from Ron Davis,
an American
living for several decades in LaPaz Bolivia.

His organization, Campo
Nuevo, is focused on appropriate technologies for the
camposinos or
poor native farmers in the high Andes, including low
cost greenhouses,
water tanks and a water motor used to drive a variety
of devices such
as saws, grain mills, alternators etc. from a water
turbine.
http://www.watermotor.net/

Ron, Peter and I are among the earliest members of
this group. Some 7
or so years ago after exchanging emails and turbine
pictures, Peter
mailed me an envelope of turgo spoons that he had
obtained from the
inventory held by the widow of the man who designed
and produced them
- some distance north of Peter's location in Sweden. I
built a runner
for my system in Idaho using the larger orange spoons,
and for another
fellow in Boone North Carolina using the smaller size
blue spoons
before Ron came into the picture.

This is deliberately misleading. As a matter of fact,
as they admitted at the time, neither Ruyter nor
Hartvigsen had ever seen this turgo design in action,
or could name a single location where it was in use.


I had read about Ron's work with the watermotor and
asked if he was
interested to see how these little turgo runners would
perform in his
system in place of a pair of plastic 100mm pcd Pelton
runners. He
bought a set of blue spoons (at a cost equal to what I
paid Peter who
in turn bought them from the estate of their designer
- because of my
appreciation of Ron situation and the humanitarian
cause he was
addressing). I also gave Ron a hub set.

Spare me! After buying a few hundred dollars of the
small spoons from “Hartvigsen Hydro”, I learned that
he could not provide a diagram of the hub require by
the design. Instead, he had a friend make a poorly
fitting plastic hub for me (sized in inches, not
metric as were the spoons),. This was two little
pieces of plastic two inches across. He has brought
this up many times. Sometimes Hartvigsen claims to
have gifted me valuable tools I required for my work.
How shameless!
The idea here is to give the reader the impression
that he has provided significant help to my
Watermotor.project. In reality his fraudulent claims
and slanderous accusations have been incredibly
damaging to my project.


He was happy that he got more
power from one runner than he had previously from two
and ordered some
more blue spoons along with a few of the larger orange
spoons. He has
not requested to order anything since.

The truth is directly and totally contrary to what he
wrote here. And I can prove it. He flatly refused to
sell me more small spoons unless I agreed to pay him
his self granted “royalties” on the larger turgo
spoons I produce in Bolivia. Do I smell a lawyer?

.

Enough time has passed that I can't recall whether it
was before
ordering the orange spoons, or shortly after that he
mentioned his
interest in casting metal copies of them locally.

Check the email record, Joe! The fact is that I told
him from the beginning that I intended to produce the
large spoons here. That is obviously why I only bought
four of them. He either did not come up with the idea
to con us into paying him “royalties” until later,
when, after building and testing it, I told him how
good I thought the turgo runner was, or possibly
planned this scam from the beginning.


I inquired of Peter
and we agreed that it would be appropriate to pay an
amount equal to
half the sales price of a plastic spoon if people
wanted to copy the
spoons, so that the widow could receive something for
the copied
parts.

This is a very cheap attempt to get people to think
that I have been cheating some poor old woman. It
stinks, Joe!
Hartvigsen originally began this scam by asking for
“donations” to build a hydro plant for the mysterious
“widow”, whose full name or address he could never
provide.Then it was for her “design rights”. When I
said that I would need to know where the money was
going, he came up with the con game you see below.
Ruyter told me that I could meet the “widow” if I
came to Sweden!


I told Ron of this agreement, and offered to buy some
of his
castings from him at a sufficient markup so that the
expense of the
royalty would be covered. He never replied to my
offer. I offered to
personally pay the royalty if he would tell me how
many he has sold.
He never replied to that offer either, but instead
keeps harrassing us
as to our right to collect the royalty.

Now he is talking “royalties”. Then as now, we simply
asked, “To whom are we paying royalties, and for
what?” He never had an answer, then or now. Absolutely
nothing to offer! Asking this is not “harassment”
unless you are trying to con someone.
Obviously we were just supposed to take it on his
word that he, an engineer in Utah, had the right to
collect money from us for turbines we make in Bolivia.
And this is coming from someone trained by his company
in intellectual property right!.


We have never claimed to own a patent on the design,
nor have we
threatened any legal action.

See for yourself. The message below was sent to me
by Peter Ruyter on Dec. 16, just after Hartvigsen’s
first posting Needless to say, he could offer no
documentation to back up his extortionist threats.


To: "davis ron"
From: "Peter Ruyter" View
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Subject: Plasticspoons

Mr Davis
I can one moore time tell you: You are at the wrong
side of normal
sense. I am the owner of all produced plastic spoons,
red, white and
blue. If anybody without my autorization copie one of
these products
for using to make repeting production of these
products I am able to
lead these activities to court in any civilized
country around the world as a case of illegal use of
copyright.

Neither have I refuse to sell him spoons
because of his failure to abide by our request.

He certainly did exactly that! Soon after I had
designed the Watermotor, and began the long process of
patenting the control mechanism that makes it
practical for directly running machines, he began
trying to extort money with his fraudulent claims.


And, it has probably
been 5-6 years since I have brought up the issue with
Ron.

Another shameless wopper! (Do I smell a lawyer?)
Actually only a few months before posting this he had
been reminding me that I owed him royalty payments,
something he tells everyone, many times, and has for
years,as he is telling the group right here


So what this comes down to is that we said to Ron if
we are going to
sell you just a few plastic spoons so that you can
copy them, we
request that you pay a royalty on the copies that you
sell.

Completely untrue! Show me where you wrote that to
me! Shall we compare emails?


His
watermoter with the plastic blue spoons sells on his
web site for 480
USD (plus shipping), I was charging him 40 USD (no
markup at all) for
a set of the plastic spoons. His watermotor with the
copied orange
spoons sells for 695 USD (plus shipping), the royalty
would have been
32 USD.

Somehow the idea of paying a design royalty on direct
physical copies
offends him, and he feels that the design should be
public domain.

Show me your right to collect “design royalties”, or
any other kind.
And I have never ever made “direct physical copies”of
the turgo spoons you sell. Not that it would be any of
your business.
Show me any proof you can provide showing that the
design is NOT in public domain. Why can’t your
“partner” Ruyter back up your claims to the right to
collect royalties, as is required by law?


We
aren't talking about the general concept of a turgo
runner - which is
public domain, we're talking about a copy made by a
rubber mold
directly around one of the plastic parts we provided
him.
.

Completely and shamelessly untrue!! Just show me a
single example of a turgo spoon produced by me as you
describe, or any “direct” copy.


He is free
like anyone else to sit down at a CAD system to design
a part and
email the file to a mold maker who can use CAM
software to machine the
mold.

Thanks, Joe.

Now some things have changed since then. Peter has
bought all the
inventory, tooling and any interest in the design from
the man's
estate. So, Peter now owns it, whatever there is to
own.

Well, then I guess maybe Ruyter can show us exactly
on what we are being asked to pay royalties. But of
course he can’t, can he?
Is “whatever there is to own” Hartvigsen’s fallback
position? That is, he himself never actually knew on
what basis Ruyter was claiming the right to collect
royalties, just taking his word for it, just as we
were supposed to take HIS word for the right to
collect royalties from us?
Wait!My guess is that we will find out next that
Hartvigsen was being conned by Ruyter.


Peter and I have jointly invested in precision CNC
machined metal molds for
waxes used in precision investment castings of these
parts. These
parts are cast not in bronze or recycled aluminum, but
in a high
strength and hardness, heat treated stainless turbine
alloy. We are
also now designing similar, but not identically scaled
spoons in other
sizes (using an elliptical profile mathematically
optimized to closely
match the cylinder/hemisphere design of the plastic
parts). We have
considerable investment in the wax molds and foundry
setup charges. We
feel it perfectly justifyable, even without worldwide
patent coverage
to request as terms of sale that anyone wanting to
make copies
directly imprinted from any of these parts be willing
to negotiate a
per copy royalty.

Great! Nice advertisement for yourself.
But what has that got to do with me? I have never
even seen the turgo spoons you are talking about.
This was written to deliberately mislead the group
into thinking that I had copied his design, which he
must be claiming as some kind of improvement of his
own .
This is a clear example of the calculated and
intentional duplicity that characterizes his entire
message.


However no one has been interested as the price and
quality of the parts we offer are good enough that
such effort is not
justified.

Not if you don’t mind paying a thousand dollars for a
turgo runner.


I have a full time job as a research engineer, and
am not
trying to make a living from selling hydro parts.

Joe is too modest!
He is actually a senior scientist at a well known
company in Utah, Ceramatec, that specializes in
testing and evaluating inventions. Ceramatec provides
special training to its employees to help them
understand and deal with intellectual property.
I personally know a lot about this because, at
Hartvigsen’s suggestion, I had the misfortune to
submit an invention that I had produced here in
Bolivia to Ceramatec for testing.
Two years later I was coolly informed that
Hartvigsen, and the company owner, Ashok Joshi, had
themselves somehow become “co-inventors” of my
invention! Imagine how surprised I was.
Recently, a patent lawyer told me that it was illegal

for a company to accept an invention for testing and
then secretly claim themselves as co-inventors. I’m
not surprised. Nor am surprised that Hartvigsen would
do such a thing.
I also found out that, with the knowledge of the
company owner, Hartvigsen had kept all of my
correspondence sent to Ceramatec regarding my
invention out of the company business records.


One of the first things Hartvigsen told me about
himself when we first began corresponding regarding
the Swedish turgo spoons was that he and his family
were very close to their church, and that he had once
been a missionary. He even offered to send
missionaries to my home in Bolivia. I found that this
was probably true when he told me later that his
bishop Robert Rees could crack into email addresses,
and then he provided an example. So I had better watch
out!


Currently, Hartvigsen is the head of a red-hot
federally funded project for converting nuclear energy
into car fuel.(Search: Hartvigsen nuclear) The object
is to use excess nuclear generating power and heat to
make hydrogen, and create the most centralized form of
energy ever produced. Kind of the opposite to
micro-hydro.
Imagine how happy this must make some corporate
boardroom members!
Because of this Hartvigsen and his company have been
granted special recognition by the U.S. government and
protection by the Department of Homeland Security. Not
surprisingly, Hartvigsen is (or was, like many

Americans), an ardent supporter of Bush’s war against
Iraq. He has referred to the president of Bolivia, who
we support, absurdly as a “communist”.
While he, naturally, has a right to his views, I
doubt that he feels that we share the same right. In
my long experience individuals with his political
views are predictably unsympathetic to efforts to

empower indigenous people, or really believe in human
rights for those they disagree with. I think that, for
him, our political differences have given him, in his
own mind, the right, or even obligation, to defame,
lie, cheat and steal from us with a clear patriotic
church going conscience. He might even see it as
fighting terrorism.

And if he happens to make out personally, so much the
better. Hasn’t it always been this way with his brand
of patriotism?


Rather I'm trying to
increase the scope of products that are offered to
cover as many site
needs as possible.

What a relief!! Just trying to help humanity.
I was afraid that he was trying to con everyone into
thinking that he and his partner had the right to
collect royalties on a valuable invention with which
they had absolutely nothing to do with creating, and,
furthermore, that he was trying to damage my personal
and business reputation by telling everybody that I
was ripping him off!


Again, this is not an issue that I'm raising, but
since Ron has raised
it in public, I'll address it in public. You can draw
your own
conclusions.

Joe

I think that the members have a right to know that
while Hartvigsen was allowed by the group moderator to
repeat the above statements and accusations to the
members several times, I was never allowed to reply,
or have since been allowed by him to clear my name
from these accusations It seems that Hartvigsen
anticipated that this would be the case before he made
them.
Nor has the moderator ever seen fit to explained why
he continued to post Hartvigsen’s messages to the
group after being advised that they were misleading

untruthful and fraudulent. This is a matter for the
members to decide, since I was threatened with
expulsion if I did not remain silent about this. I
know one thing: Nobody, but nobody, has the right to
prevent me from replying to public accusations, and
then cover up the fact, as has been done in this case.
That is nothing but fascism, something which I will
never be party to by being intimidated into silence. I
am putting all of the e-mail correspondence regarding

this matter on the Internet,and invite hartvigsen,
Ruyter, and Wim Klunne to do the same. As Hartvigsen
said, “You can draw your own conclusions”.
In the six months since Hartvigsen posted this message
to the world’s largest micro-hydro power e-group, and
in spite of his definite and repeated assertions, he
has yet to provide a shred of evidence of any kind
whatsoever that either he, or his partner Peter
Ruyter, have any conceivable right to collect
royalties on the Swedish turgo design we produce here
in Bolivia for our Watermotor turbines.



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