On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Jed Rothwell wrote: > >In the case of free energy, a dramatic discovery could get an inventor > >killed . . . > > I doubt it, but that can easily be prevented, by going 100% public and > distributing thousands of copies of the plans via the Internet.
It might be simple, I don't think it's "easy." What past inventors have given away their discoveries in such a way? (I mean "inventors," not "scientists.") First, wouldn't the inventor have to know that trade secrets are almost certainly harmful in this case? If the inventor only thought that they MIGHT be harmful, then the inventor probably wouldn't want to take a chance by releasing the central details of their discovery. Opposite example: Even though the SMOT looks now like hoax/mistake/ craziness, Greg Watson stands out as one of the only OU inventors who instantly went public rather than instantly opting for secrecy. It's too bad that this is so rare. (Was Patterson another example? Or was he already more scientist than inventor?) Regarding 100% release, Steorm obviously doesn't believe any such thing. Those guys were even refusing to answer questions about how many prototypes they'd built, or how much wattage they measured!!! And Steorm is behaving the same as most others have behaved: they look just like a scam, while probably they're just being their own worst enemy. And that tells me that at least for a typical inventor, going 100% public is very very hard indeed. If there really are MIBs whose job it is to suppress these discoveries, then they certainly have an easy job. A typical inventor who stumbles into success will immediately decide to NOT publish the details on LENR/CANR. Then, as with the Clem device, the Hendershot device, Kawai, Sweet, etc., the MIBs just have to phone up the inventor and make a death threat against their family. Or if the inventor decides to release the secret by later patenting, why WOULDN'T their government slap a secrecy order on such a device, a device which is both valuable and also a major issue of national security? Mabye Steorm isn't a scam, and perhaps they'll be successful. But to me it looks like they've taken their first big step and put their foot right in the huge stinking cowpie that the rest of the FE community has been discussing for years. Doomed to repeat history through ignorance (perhaps even willful ignorance.) (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 425-222-5066 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
