Due to the international nature of these patents, what do you predict today? Would LENR be coopted by the IAEA or UN? Would there be a declaration of energy as a "human right", and thus richer countries subsidizing the energy needs of poorer nations? Or would $ for new energy sources be pried from developed nations as payback for future adverse effects of previous AGW (climate reparations)?
Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: >Here are some notes on the outcome. I though Uncle Sam purchased the >patents, as originally planned. Not so, according to: "The American >aviation experience: a history" By Tim Brady > >There was a tangle of 130 patents, all essential to aviation. > >On July 24, 1917 Congress appropriated $640 million for aviation "the >largest appropriation ever made by Congress for a single purpose" > >"The manufacturers agreed to set up a cross patent agreement whereby any >manufacturer could use patents by paying a fee to our organization set up >by the patent holders. This organization would then apportion the seas to >the various patent holders. The Manufacturers' Aircraft Association was >thus created to collect and apportion fees and to speak for the industry. . >. ." > >- Jed
