Michael McKubre said that the reason he believes completely in the reality of the Papp engine reaction for the last 14 years is that Papp ran a full demo of his engine in front of patent examiners to their total satisfaction using a dynamometer… it worked as advertised. On the strength of this demo, the patent office was forced to give Papp a patent on his engine. The Papp engine is the only LENR device that has ever been patented.
Cheers: Axil On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wrote: > > >> Generally speaking, in my experience, the value of a technical claim is >> inversely proportional to the level of secrecy applied to it. >> > > I am not being cynical. Well, not completely cynical. In technology, when > you make an important claim you file a patent. A patent must reveal > everything or it is invalid. In pure science, when you make an important > breakthrough you rush to publish it as soon as possible to establish > priority. > > Sometimes, foolish people make what they think is an important > breakthrough and they try to keep it secret. These "breakthroughs" are > usually mistakes or stuff that everyone knows already. > > Howard Aiken's dictum applies: "Don't worry about people stealing your > ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's > throats." > > - Jed > >
