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Legislation to Mandate Pool Covers

THE MESSAGE

Just 200 pools using covers can save 3.5 million gallons of wasted water every year. A pool left unchecked can completely evaporate. Energy is also used to create 3.5M gal of drinking water. THIS HAS BEEN THE MESSAGE...

There is a solution now for covering ALL pools that costs less than any other solution out there (~$300 for both cover and roller) and pays for itself lowering your water meter costs.

CONSERVATION BLINDNESS

Yet large corporate pool shop chains like http://pinchapenny.com refuse to even consider the solution saying they don't feel there is an interest by retailers in a recent 3 line product rejection letter. This is a common problem in the corporate level pool industry, no one really cares to support water conservation. There is ONLY one way...

LEGISLATION TO MANDATE POOL COVERS!

We need NATIONAL POOL COVER LEGISLATION NOW! This is the ONLY way industry complies, by mandates. Just like the recent child safety drain covers had to be mandated by law, the industry will not voluntarily comply to change, even though pool covers pay for themselves.

More on how covers save water at http://solarfactory.com/Solar-Factory/Solar-Roller/blog-half-pool-covers.html

THE BIO-COVER

Phase II of this project is to produce a bio-degradable floating pool cover that is NOT a bubble cover. I have a superior design that allows some light through, but is thinner for rolling up and stocking on store shelves everywhere like tarps are now, and lasts longer with a 5 yr life-span and a clean after-life that does NOT clog up landfills like the existing PE bubble covers.

It makes no sense to mandate covers for green reasons just to have them clog up landfills. So the BIO-COVER is the SOLUTION, and only with the 1/2 cover design can ALL POOLS be covered making a MANDATE practical that even pays for itself despite that some agencies are offering rebates to get you covered.

THE ANTI-BACTERIAL BIO-COVER

Thirdly, I can see a future where science can design a cover material with ANTI-BACTERIAL PROPERTIES to further reduce Green Pool Disease, which also contain Mosquito larvae that breeds on pools, especially ones abandoned as homes are left for sale in a market of many foreclosures. These pools must be mandated to not be left to become cesspool mosquito breeding grounds.

I NEED YOUR HELP AND THOUGHTS

If you call yourself a conservationist then PROVE IT. I have put this out dozens of times and even though people say they are Go Green, they DO NOTHING to evaluate my solution for covering pools.

The recent flat 3 line product rejection letter from http://Pinch-a-Penny.com has lit a fire under me. It is extremely depressing on the other hand after investing 20 yrs of my life and all I have (including the sale of my home) to see how the pool industry does not care at all for a solution that over 500 of my direct customers love. But it's not about a product for me anymore, it's about conservation.

QUESTION to you and anyone reading this DISCUSSION.

I am feeling I need to become a NON-PROFIT and devote the patent to the public via the non-profit (else everyone blindly just sees $$ as my motive), and to PUSH FOR NATIONAL MANDATES TO COVER POOLS. I live on a shoestring budget at this point having invested everything, but I want to hear from anyone and everyone about how I would:

1) Easily convert from a C_Corp to Non_Profit and

2) Have a Strategy/Plan/TEAM to FIND LEGISLATORS THAT WOULD SPONSOR A BILL FOR NATIONAL POOL WATER CONSERVATION.

Thanks, David Hoff

Inventor of the Solar Roller Integrated 1/2 Pool Cover System

See my "Rant Marketing" and Green Papers @:

* http://twitter.com/solarfactory
* http://solarfactory.blogspot.com
* http://InventorsDiary.com

Reply to Pinch-a-Penny.com 3 line Rejection Letter

Below is my reply to the narrow minded 3 line flat out product "rejection letter" by www.PinchaPenny.com, a large +100 store retailer based in Florida. My goal here is to expose the stale backward anti-conservationist fat cat thinking that's running (and ruining) our corporations in the pool industry.

Trying to be a nice guy just doesn't work in good ole boy country club world of narcissistic executives. So I am rolling up my sleeves and taking it to the streets.

Help me in the call for:
NATIONAL WATER CONSERVATION LEGISLATION TO MANDATE POOL COVERS ON ALL POOLS.
Just 200 pools using covers can save 3.5 million gallons of water every year for an estimated 200 BILLION gallons nationwide. If you don't care about drought, what's the cost of the energy to produce that drinking water?

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http://inventorsdiary.info
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1493247026
http://solarfactory.blogspot.com
http://davidhoff.ning.com
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-- the reply --

Hello Tammy, you seemed like a very nice gal on the phone but now I have to state my peace and does not reflect on you personally, but your company.

I just got a "three sentence" rejection letter from Curt Van Leuven stating he doesn't feel my product will generate any interest. I am so insulted that there is no discussion even by your company considering severe drought in GA and the increased focus on water conservation. I have 100's of satisfied customers, and to say there isn't any interest in saving water with drought looming in many places and the energy it takes to produce water, is pure idiocy to say it lightly.

I am not even going to try for a round two with your company, but am fighting head on the attitudes of disinterest toward water conservation in the pool industry, especially by retailers like you. One way of doing this is my http://twitter.com/solarfactory ability to rant and rage against the attitudes of resellers and industry publishers alike, calling it like it is publically and specifically the disinterest toward water conservation by www.pinchapenny.com.

I shall continue to call out awareness of your abject rejection concerning such an important issue as water conservation and that it means so little to you that you can reply with a three line rejection letter when I have spent 20 years of my life fighting for the patents, fighting to protect my trademark getting an injunction against Swimline, selling my home to spend 1/4 million dollars on inventory of over 3000 units sitting in my warehouse, and by the spirit of your letter I should just give up...that there's no interest in such a dumb product as mine!

So I am rolling up my sleeves and you should note to Google for your name in my fight for water conservation and how you don't mind selling Sun Rings that are slow to remove, have a high return rate, are expensive, blow around in winds, bunch up at the end of the pool, don't provide full coverage, take 10 minutes to fish out of the pools only to sit on your deck like a pile of pancakes, and yet you turn your nose up at the Solar Roller that has almost no returns, a high customer satisfaction rate, cost less, works in under 30 seconds, and weighs less than a 3 year old kid because the heavy water drains out the end, and can even roll and stay in the pool for virtually no work at all to use. Plus the patented Solar Roller makes using a pool cover completely safe because you cannot be engulfed by the split-cover solution, and that it provide a ridge of support spanning the cover sections.

Moreover, the old days of narcissistic fat cats sitting in their back rooms making decisions that have no respect for the little guys is over in the age of the internet. My goal is to work with legislation to make covers a mandate, just like it took VGBA legislation to save lives, and I will use this letter as evidence of rejection by the pool industry of innovators trying to provide conservation solutions.

Isn't it irony that the granddaughter of former Secretary of State James Baker had to die before the industry would do the right thing with preventing drain entrapments. So is the pool industry...but look for change in the making.

Thank you,

David Hoff, Inventor CEO
Solar Factory Pool Products, Inc
Folsom, CA 95630
http://solarfactory.com

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