Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> 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
