Populistocracy: The Long-Awaited Death of Special-Interest Politics!!! What could be more fair than allowing anyone who wants to hold public office to participate in a random drawing??? This is authentic Democracy! This is how they chose their Assembly Members in Ancient Athens! This presents the very real possibility of stripping special interests of their ability to buy undue influence in the form of campaign donations. (Obviously, Presidents and State Governors could not be selected at random.) Could we do any worse than the present system??? (If this proposal seems impossible to accomplish, (re)read Iconoclast Community: We can do this!!! 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 This is what I want to spend my Z-PEC royalties on.
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:41:55 -0500 Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Big Picture From: [email protected] To: [email protected] peatbog <[email protected]> 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
