Reply To: 600 kmph MonoRail Ship Ferry VLCC Fare $1/100 km

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote:

I fail to see how a 95% reduction in the production costs of energy would not be considered a “technological lead”.

I’m also surprised that the Anti-Obama peanut galery didn’t chime in after the Reagan attack a few pages up.

Since Eric has committed to make licensing to manufacture generators to all comers world-wide open and affordable, any “lead” would depend on blocking that, or being first out of the blocks — a very temporary lead.

And anyone who wants to be micro-managed by the hyper-interventionist Obugabe administration needs a head-reading. Furthermore, one of the first and largest categories of economic losers from deployment of FF would be His new/old friends, the Islamic oil states. King Abdullah will not be amused.

P.S. It’s “gallery”.
Who says we have to lead in production? Glenn has an excellent thread in the fusionomics forum about creating wealth- and how America frequently patents things like the PC for China to beat themselves up figuring out how to build it for WalMart.

I believe Eric is right on target licensing globally. That business model alone is newsworthy. It could have easily been something like “New Jersey Firm Corners Market On Fusion Power” for a headline.
As I observed on another thread, I personally think Eric’s priorities are first, solving the energy/pollution problems of the planet, second, being acknowledged and famous, and only third, making money. Once the genie is out of the bottle, reverse-engineering and simple theft and “counterfeiting” of the LPP design will be impossible to stop. It can only be beaten by undercutting through providing more benefits in the form of shared collaboration on engineering etc. amongst licensed users than pirates get by evading the license fee.