The strange, ethereal (pun intended) world of free energy, zero point energy, and cold fusion:
I used to subscribe to this magazine in the days before the internet. There was great hope (at least I had some hope) that these marginalized technologies would someday develop into commercial products. But alas, they are still marginalized!
The Correas, shown on the front of this issue, have disappeared into free energy oblivion. In addition to their work with plasma discharge tubes, they apparently have done lots of other stuff, some if it pretty weird.
The magazine's editor was murdered in a petty robbery. One of the contributors to the magazine committed suicide, allegedly after his scientific claims of perpetual motion were disproven. Another has died of old age. I am not suggesting that something sinister is at work here, but it might be. We all die eventually, though hopefully not violently.
Inventors are sometimes their own worst enemies. They are suspicious and think everyone is out to steal their ideas. Well, guess what? If you have a great idea and someone steals it and everyone else uses it, you really did have a good idea. On the other hand, what good is an idea that no one wants?
The Correa's patents probably cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain and I'm sure they have brought them nothing but dissapointment.
Their 3 US Patents on plasma discharge tubes are extensive and incomprehensible, since they were written in a combination of patentese and legalese. (Let that be a lesson to anyone who still believes that the purpose of patents is to disseminate knowledge for the benefit of humanity, in exchange for a government granted monopoly for a specific period. The monopoly is granted in exchange for a full disclosure of the technology, but if the patent is incomprehensible, how is that a full disclosure?)
I asked the Correas' publishing agent about purchasing one of their plasma tubes to do my own replication experiments, but their agent said they weren't interested. I was told "They want investors in their R&D, and offer testable demonstrations to serious candidates." I guess I wasn't considered "serious". Besides, why should they be bothered to sell plasma discharge tubes to people with money wanting to purchase them. That's so capitalistic! They only have time for science!
Next post, my very own "free energy" machine.
I used to subscribe to this magazine in the days before the internet. There was great hope (at least I had some hope) that these marginalized technologies would someday develop into commercial products. But alas, they are still marginalized!
The magazine's editor was murdered in a petty robbery. One of the contributors to the magazine committed suicide, allegedly after his scientific claims of perpetual motion were disproven. Another has died of old age. I am not suggesting that something sinister is at work here, but it might be. We all die eventually, though hopefully not violently.
Inventors are sometimes their own worst enemies. They are suspicious and think everyone is out to steal their ideas. Well, guess what? If you have a great idea and someone steals it and everyone else uses it, you really did have a good idea. On the other hand, what good is an idea that no one wants?
The Correa's patents probably cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain and I'm sure they have brought them nothing but dissapointment.
Their 3 US Patents on plasma discharge tubes are extensive and incomprehensible, since they were written in a combination of patentese and legalese. (Let that be a lesson to anyone who still believes that the purpose of patents is to disseminate knowledge for the benefit of humanity, in exchange for a government granted monopoly for a specific period. The monopoly is granted in exchange for a full disclosure of the technology, but if the patent is incomprehensible, how is that a full disclosure?)
I asked the Correas' publishing agent about purchasing one of their plasma tubes to do my own replication experiments, but their agent said they weren't interested. I was told "They want investors in their R&D, and offer testable demonstrations to serious candidates." I guess I wasn't considered "serious". Besides, why should they be bothered to sell plasma discharge tubes to people with money wanting to purchase them. That's so capitalistic! They only have time for science!
Next post, my very own "free energy" machine.
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