Yeah, well, obviously Tom Darden wants to get there first then so his investment pays off. Why lie and say he doesn't care? It seems like such a blatantly false statement.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> If that statement were true, than Darden would take his chances with the >> US patent office and open up the IP for replication. >> > > That would not work. No one will develop cold fusion without IP > protection. Consider this: it took roughly $1 billion to develop the Prius, > which is an incremental improvement to automotive technology. It will > probably take far more than that to go from where we are now to a practical > device. No one will risk that kind of money knowing that after they develop > the cold fusion generator, car, or other device, every other company will > be free to take the core idea. This is similar to the reasons no one was > willing to invest in the Transcontinental Railroad until Lincoln put in > place government guarantees and subsidies. > > - Jed > >
