Today it would be much more difficult for them to keep it out of the public domain due to the Internet as you suggest. The patent I mentioned was obtained over 20 years ago when spread spectrum was just coming out of the military and into public use. I was quite pleased to hear that the company I shared the patent with is still manufacturing that product which downloads data from locomotives at a modest data rate. Of course they have had to replace a number of components that are now not available.
I think the government officials in power most likely do not believe LENR is real and therefore are not too concerned with secrecy. The international work being performed upon the concepts prevents them from having significant control in any case. I do suspect that they would change their position and actions quickly if anyone develops a technique that leads to dangerous weaponry. I hope that this will never be possible and most of the evidence points in that direction. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 9:43 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:the desktop supernova David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: I know for a fact that the government can order a patent kept secret. I stand corrected. However I do not think this will be a problem with cold fusion for reasons I have discussed previously: The government does not believe cold fusion is real and they would not take action to suppress it until they do. By then it would be too late. (I doubt they want to suppress it in any case.) Security by obscurity does not work in the 21st century. If you fear the government may suppress the patent, you can put a copy of it on the Internet and within a few days thousands of copies will be distributed worldwide. Give me a copy and I can guarantee that. If the government accuses you of distributing secret information you can say "oops, my computer was hacked." - Jed
