HOW TO REALLY GIVE POWER TO THE PEOPLE Extra Spending Power Would Be Quickly Lost To collect royalties, one only has to make the royalties cheaper to pay than the legal fees and the disruption that litigation brings. Besides, Governements will not miss such a great opportunity to tax such inventions, seeing that there is so much "Loose Money Laying Around" once we stop paying OPEC et al; so there is little doubt that royalties will be seen as a way to protect their taxable interest, since people would oppose paying thousands of percent taxes on the devices they buy---even though it is really the same thing; (in the vein of "I can't afford to have you raise my Landlord's taxes!") In other words they will tax the royalties so you won't "Feel" like you are being taxed. Really, especially in Added Value Tax Countries, the overwhelming portion of the price you pay for virtually everything s to pay the taxes for all the previous owners of all the parts of the goods or services. Plus, at some point, the politicians are going to abandon the dying Energy Industries; they will be tripping over one-another to cut lucrative deals with the New Energy Establishment.
Besides, free energy wouldn't be free, just from the standpoint that, "extra money" being diverted from energy into the otherwise same economy will not increase goods or services nor will it give you more spending power since the prices of everything else will inflate. Your increased spending power will simply vanish into the ravenous, slobbering, gaping, burping mouth of the Beast we call Inflation. HOW TO REALLY GIVE POWER TO THE PEOPLE http://z-pec.yolasite.com/resources/1-Populistocracy.pdf http://z-pec.yolasite.com/resources/2CritSafeguards.pdf http://z-pec.yolasite.com/resources/4Misc.pdf Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:41:55 -0500 Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Big Picture From: jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com peatbog <peat...@teksavvy.com> wrote: Once Rossi comes across with a convincing demo or the mw power plant, or even does a long run of the 12kw device, it won't be long before people figure out what the catalyst is and build the devices for themselves. Patents will be a joke. No country is going to sit around waiting for Rossi's permission. Countries will break every agreement they have in regard to patents rather than not build the device. I agree emphatically with both points. On the blog, the Defkalion representative wrote: "For the time being, it is confirmed that Defkalion will manufacture units up to 20KW for different non-military applications within 2011, exclusively." That's naive. It is also a violation of trade laws. You cannot tell your customer how they can and cannot use a product, except in a very limited way. For example, software manufacturers have you sign an agreement not to reverse engineer the product. I doubt that would stand up on court. As long as the customer uses it for a legal purpose, the vendor cannot discriminate or refuse to sell. If the use of the product is illegal, that is a problem for law enforcement agents. (If you knowingly sell something for illegal purposes you may be culpable.) Frankly the entire business plan strikes me as naive, totally inadequate to the task, and one that would leave 99% of potential profit on the table for others to grab. If this thing is going to solve the energy crisis, or even have a measurable impact on energy consumption, one small company mass producing units at the end of 2011 will not cut the mustard. The scale of that effort is far too small. It is as if the Wright brothers envisioned themselves as exclusive manufacturers of airplanes in 1912. In fact, there were a half-million people making airplanes that year, and without that kind of effort aviation would not have become an industry. We will need a half-million or maybe 10 million people working on Rossi device R&D if they are going to succeed at all. I mean people in many industries such as automobiles, power generators, space heaters, process heating, aerospace and so on. These people all have specialized knowledge that Rossi and Defkalion do not have. There is no way Defkalion could engineer a system for anything other than a few basic purposes. They could not expand fast enough or high the tens of thousands of product engineers who will be needed. Thousands of variations and specialized uses must be engineered. Also, as I said, every single one will have to pass careful review by the insurance industry (Underwriter's Laboratory), regulators and others. This alone will cost billions of dollars, and Defkalion cannot begin to deal with it. Underwriter's Laboratory (U.L.) has no legal standing, but de facto you cannot sell a single product in the U.S. without extensive testing and approval by them. No vendor will sell it, and no professional engineer or installers will touch it -- nor should they, in my opinion. No one should risk his life to protect a trade secret! U.L. demands blueprints and the exact composition of your product, and of every component in it, down to the faceplate screws. I have seen their application forms. They want to know more than Patent Office demands. There can be no secrecy in industrial products. There has not been any secrecy since the 19th century. - Jed
