Your Canadian correspondent and friend
Don J. S. Adams
Charles Wilde wrote:
>
> Don Adams writes:
>
> > How can someone be smart enough to create a free energy device
> > yet be dumb enough to try to bring it to market via conventional
> > channels instead of giving it freely to the public domain?
> >
> >
> > You have a point there! The traditional methods for control of
> > intellectual property are:
> >
> > . Copyright - doesn't seem to apply to a "free energy" F/E machine.
> >
> > . Trade Secret - Are you sure you want to be the only person that
> > knows how to make a multi-trillion dollar negative impact on the
> > bottom lines of various large corporations or countries like Libya or
> > Iraq?
> >
> > . Patent - three possible results of a patent application seem to be:
> >
> > 1. Patent denied - patent examiners don't understand how this thing
> > could possibly work based on accepted physical theories.
> >
> > 2. Patent sequestered - One of various Federal Agencies declares that
> > the material in the patent application has "national security impact"
> > and slap a security gag order on you.
> >
> > 3. Patent issued - If the patent really works, congratulations, you
> > now have a license to litigate! With billions of dollars at stake,
> > you can bet you will in court for a long time. Maybe your
> > grandchildren will collect.
> >
> > =====================
> >
> > The only real strategy is to give the invention away. Depending on
> > how you do this, you will be immortalized in the history books. And
> > you could probably make a tidy sum on selling books, consulting, and
> > speaking engagements.
> >
> > And because the consensus has much inertia, you could also generate
> > substantial income selling hundreds or thousands of working models of
> > your invention to various organizations and institutions as their
> > starting point for research and development. Or to the general public
> > to power their homes and cars. Eventually the large commercial
> > concerns will take over the invention and the business, but in the
> > meantime, you can generate enough cash to finance your retirement.
> >
> > As Moray B. King and many others have pointed out, the only way to
> > change the paradigm and gain acceptance of "free energy" is to widely
> > broadcast the information for a simple, repeatable experiment.
> >
> > And with Internet technology, this can be done planet wide in a flash.
> >
> > Charles