I don't agree with the government using tax dollars to pay cold fusion inventors.
In my opinion, the government needs to be forced (peacefully) to grant Rossi's patent. When the government tries to fix a problem they helped create, 9 out of 10 times they make it worse. ________________________________ From: Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Congress cuts the Gordian knot of aviation patents in 1917 Craig Haynie <cchayniepub...@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 16:01 -0500, Jed Rothwell wrote: > >> Someone here suggested that the best solution to this problem would be >> for governments to throw a large pile of money that everyone involved >> in the initial development of cold fusion. I think that would probably >> be a good idea. I hope that Fleischmann and Pons get a large chunk of >> it. Rossi deserves a lot too. Many people do. > >When we start talking about morality, I feel a need to step in... > >It's not good to take money from people who do not want to give it up, even if >someone has a 'noble' way in which to use it. If you are I did this, it would >be called theft. I do not understand this argument. Fleischmann, Pons, Rossi and many others have intellectual property rights. They invented cold fusion. They deserve a patent just like any other inventors. History and circumstances probably will deny them this patent, so they deserve compensation. This problem was primarily caused by the Patent Office, but many other institutions such as the Department of Energy and the Washington Post contributed to the morass. Blame cannot be assigned to any single person or institution. Rather than argue about this for years and rather than spend hundreds of millions of dollars on legal fees, it would make sense to sweep aside the arguments, give people what they deserve, and proceed with industrial production of cold fusion devices. The total amount of royalties paid will be trivial compared to the benefits to society. Cold fusion is likely save billions of dollars every day worldwide, and 50,000 lives per week. Paying a few billion dollars to Fleischmann, Pons, Rossi and others would be trivial fraction of this. And to take money from people to give to those working in one of the largest pent-up markets in history, is just adding insult to injury. > I am not talking about getting anyone to people who be working on cold fusion in the near future. They will learn plenty from the market. I'm talking about diverting a tiny fraction of this to pay the people who invented the technology. Normally they would be granted a patent a paid by that mechanism. Fleischmann is not working on anything. He is old and suffering from a fatal disease. He got nothing for his efforts in cold fusion. Neither did any of the other pioneers. They are mostly old or dead. All they got was 22 years of grief and opprobrium. These people or their survivors deserve something. - Jed
