Reply To: General thought on old coal mines.

[Brian H]

belbear wrote: If the physics works out, the proof of concept for p-B11 fusion is there and things go bad with government or “faceless, evil megacompanies”, there is always an option for that “greatest sacrifice” an inventor can make to save the world:

That is, to throw every bit of knowledge out in the open, free for the taking, and watch those early FF generators pop up a few years later in countries like Japan, Taiwan, Korea, China, India….

It may cost the people form LPP their future as a manufacturer and their income from patents, but it will earn them a place in the history books and may even save them from those freak accidents that sometimes happen to people who know too much and refuse to cooperate…. :ahhh:

I know, it sounds Hollywoodish but sometimes fact is stronger than fiction… (Like the fact that no moviemaker ever imagined the Soviet block could collapse so… peacefully)

DPF principles and many experimental rigs of different sorts have been explored for several decades, so there is already a strong base in that sense. Any patent’s purpose is nominally to make information available to the whole world with a lag on making use of it. But whether or not full and sufficient info is “thrown open” doesn’t matter as much as you might think; my point above was that “existence proof” (i.e., since it worked at least once, other researchers know that there’s at least one approach out of a smallish set which is not a dead end) plus the immense incentive (prestige of being first to commercializable unity, plus financial and societal benefits) would (and probably will) mean that many world-wide will duplicate (and exceed) LPP’s results in a very few years.