Mauro, I think you just kinda described the Moller sky car. On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Mauro Lacy <ma...@lacy.com.ar> wrote:
> >> The news that Steorn is advertising their own failure on Al Jazerra is > > mind boggling. > >> > >> What to make of this? Are these people extremely clever and using > > reverse psychology? Or are they what they appear to be: stupid, > >> incoherent, and flapping around trying one scheme after another, like a > > candidate about to lose an election in a landslide? > >> > >> Here is my hypothesis Ver. 3.42: They are trying to give over-unity > > energy research a bad reputation. Someone, somewhere knows that magic > > magnetic motors really do work. This person wants to suppress the > > technology. So they are working preemptively to make everyone think > > these motors are the worst scam imaginable, with zero credibility to 5 > > significant decimal places. > >> > >> Just kidding. > > > > If you extend the intention of "giving of bad reputation" to the entire > > field of alternative energy research (includind Cold Fusion, by example) > > that start to sound more like a credible hypothesis. > > > > And also consider that maybe they are trying to make alternative energy > > INVESTORS to look like fools, and make them spend their money in a bogus > > project, so they don't invest it in a real one, and are afraid to invest > > in another in the future. > > Big PR tactics Steorn is taking since its very beginning, are compatible > > with both of these potential objectives. > > > > Maybe is even simpler than that: It's a scam, plain and simple. And they > can't care less about alternative energy, new technologies, or whathever. > If the business of selling Moon parcels where growing, they would be > selling Moon land, with authentic certificates of ownership, maps, planned > trips and all that. > I've certainly seen this kind of high level frauds in the past, in the > Software & IT industry. > The setup goes something like this: > - You choose a field that is promising, growing, new, exciting; whatever. > - You think of a new, revolutionary invention. The idea doesn't need to be > very good, but if it's good, and specially if it can even work in the end, > better then. > - You setup a company to develop the idea. You hire the best programmers, > graphic designers, PR people, engineers, etc. and pay them a very good > salary. Way up the market value. Let's say, the double of the market > value. > - Setup an office in the better comercial district of the city, with > luminous offices, a big meeting room, conference and demo rooms, sexy > secretaries and receptionists, the best equipment, etc. > - Your work from now on, and also the work of your employees(although at > the beginning they don't know it), is to attract investors. > > To be a successful bussiness, a main condition must be met: the project > never, ever, must be finished. Always something must be lacking. The user > interface is not as good as should be. The project is technically almost > finished, but maybe a redevelopment before deployment is a good idea. The > fonts, and particularly, the background design and colors and just not the > ones the management wanted. Etc. A big list of etceteras. > You can't fail, because you have the best team of professionals, the idea > is revolutionary, it is commercially viable, the market wants it, etc. You > just need a little bit more time, and a little bit more money, to finish > it and make it as good as the project really demands. > > And so it goes. When employees get tired of working in these > conditions(working as well paid scammers, in the end), they can just quit, > with a good compensation and a recomendation, of course. > > When investors get tired, they simply aren't patient enough. They don't > trust the project and the ideas behind it, have not enough faith, distrust > the management and the decisions it takes, etc. > > Investors usually left after some time, embarrased and in so much shame > that they don't reclaim nothing, don't initiate demands, etc. > In the end, they knew from the very beginning that it was a risky > investment, so there's nothing to complain about. > And the project is almost ready, just a little more time and money are > needed to really finish it up, and it will be as good as it really > deserves to be. These investors, in the end, with their doubts and lack of > faith, are putting the project in danger. So, in the end it's better if > they leave. New ones will appear, surely. > > You maintain this business as long as you can, and when things are > starting to get murky(really murky) and "profits" are falling, you > suddenly fire all your employeess, close offices, and disappear in your > private jet, to have a well deserved recess in your private island. > > Come to think of it, a perpetual motion machine is the ideal project for > these kind of business. And now that the world is turning "green", time is > ripe. > > Best regards, > Mauro > >
