This is a good reason to have a very hard time with this trade secret approach that the LENR businesses guys are taking.
Think of the millions of years of life expectancy they could save if they just disclosed everything they had and then tried to patent it, rather than this trade secret approach. Think of how they could accelerate the replacement of coal with LENR. This is one of the reasons why I don't think Rossi has anything. If he did, why not just disclose it all and then patent it? People say he wouldn't get a patent because it's cold fusion, but that's just plain craziness. The patent examiners would be more than happy to give him a patent if he proves it works. Disclosing how it's made would be the first step to doing that. I think if he keeps this up, they should refuse to give him a patent. Instead, a patent should be given to the first group that publicly demonstrates (open to one and all) a machine that works. This is, after all, what patents are for - to encourage full disclosure, not to encourage what Rossi is doing. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/07/coals-high-cost-in-china-2-5-billion-years-of-life-expectancy/ > > *Coal’s high cost in China: 2.5 billion years of life expectancy* > > > Coal is the least efficient of the fossil fuels in terms of the amount of > energy gained vs. CO2 released. Burning it also releases numerous toxic > chemicals and particulates, which can exact a cost on a country's > population in terms of reduced life expectancy and increased health costs. > Figuring out the exact cost of coal use, however, is challenging because of > a combination of different pollution controls and the mobility of the > population. > > Thanks to an unusual combination of policies (some completely unrelated to > pollution), China has accidentally provided the opportunity to put an exact > number on the human cost of coal use. And that number turns out to be > staggering: 5.5 years of reduced life expectancy that, when spread over the > half-billion people of northern China, means a loss of 2.5 billion > life-years. >
