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Comment Re:Why do you imagine you rerquire a patent? (Score 1) 9

Its not about the money. Important engine inventions are rare and like a centuries old championship race for us inventors. Think, Heron of Alexandria's aeolipile, James Watt's stem engine, Otto Engine, Diesel engine, Stirling engine, etc. With the patents for "Hukkanen engine" and the improved theory of the heat engines (i.e. pressure engines), I hope to qualify to join that quite exclusive club of engine inventors ;-) Yes, a working model that is verified by third parties would be the optimal irrefutable proof. And yes, I was willing to go that route from the very beginning, but soon found out the oddity of no one willing to even take a look at it. However, my theory of heat engines being actually pressure engines and their exit-side's pressure limiting their efficiency is rock solid. There is nothing and no one who can break the theory. Feel free to try, if you succeed I pay you that 300€ bounty, that I've been promising for a quite long time now.

...then release the invention under public domain and make gobs of money consulting.

Even better, currently I could still sell the damn thing to public domain (and I'd do it modestly cheaply), and then skip the whole consulting part. But, I'm not sure if, it really would be better for the world to let the thing go to public domain, or if the spread of technology should be done maximally slowly! Reason to this is that there are now, I think, 700 million people among the oil and gas producing nations who get their salaries from the sales of oil and gas. If this technology can make cheaper energy (and hydrogen gas) available worldwide in just twenty years, then the value of the existing oil and gas resources after that 20 would be zero. Even worse is that the results of this coming value collapse would come much sooner, as the oil and gas producers would begin dumping their soon to be worthless product into the markets. And there are now many nations who get almost all of their export income from the sale of oil / gas. The economies of those countries would collapse. result would be lots of violence, suffering and chaos. That said, the public domain route might be a much worse option for very many persons and families. If I had taken the route through the investors, the investors would now make the decision and to them the option of releasing the technology to public domain option would not exist.

The patent application is over 200 pages, and I think it covers pretty much everything important. Also, I see no route left for blocking the use of this technology. Unfortunately, slashdotters here didn't want the story to be published, so it didn't automatically become "third party verified" by the smart nerds worldwide, and no public discussion arise of what should I do with the "damn thing".

Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 9

Thanks. You are right about the most. Also, in Finland a working prototype is only needed for perpetual motion machines. Initially, the patent office misunderstood my application and complained about it resulting only modest improvements to the relevant state of art. Then, I provided them more materials, relevant examples, calculations, and apparently they accepted my arguments. Upon granting the patent they were referring to a patent law's chapter which stated that if an invention appears to be technically useful, new, and innovative then a patent _must_ be granted.

You could build your machine and power something with it,

someone of modest mechanical skills could build a prototype in the period he's been posting on this topic. (I vaguely remember taking to him on something related, a while ago.)

That is so horribly true. Initially, I considered launching a start-up company and seeking investors. However, investors quickly told me that they wanted a team a world-class team. I am mostly a software guy and finding the persons with relevant "world-class talents" did not appear too easy. Also, I realized that a start-up wouldn't be meaningful as there are already big energy companies everywhere - those with right kind of prototype labs and staff. Investors would tie me to that company for a decade or more and probably they would reap the benefits. No I though it would be a better route for me to just sell or license the damn thing away and go back building (more interesting) software. But little did I expect that nobody would want to even hear about the invention. All I got, and all the time, were false promises of someone looking at it next week or so. But no one ever did logs remained empty. With a 99.9% certainty, I've not been talking with you or with anyone here on slashdot about this - as I've tried to keep the damn thing half-hidden from the public. But yes, apparently a prototype is a must in this damn field of technology.

Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 9

No, I don't misunderstand patents. I understand and the patent office did understand too that the extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. However, I could show that extraordinary evidence to them and they approved that.

As you wrote..

The maximum theoretical efficiency of a heat engine is 1-(Tc/Th)

The extraordinary evidence, was precisely disproving that equation and showing with multi-decimal accuracy that The maximum theoretical efficiency of a heat engine is actually 1-(P(exit-side)/P(entry-side))

In that article I also show exactly, why the Carnot's efficiency values are what they are. Do you think you know why they are what they are?

I found out that a heat engine will reach its maximum efficiency precisely at that moment when it has lowered its entry-side’s over-pressure to the level of exit-side’s pressure. A heat engine just uses heat for the purpose of increasing its entry-sides pressure. But as experiments and compressed air powered tools show, heat is not needed for powering turbines or even piston engines

Yes, the Carnot's theorem usually gives correct theoretical efficienciency value, but only if
a) ambient pressures at the heat engine's entry- and exit-sides are the same
b) heat engine doesn't leak substance,
c) fluid substance remains in the same (gaseous) phase. Then the only variable left (pV=nRT) influencing the entry- and exit-side’s pressures will be the temperatures.

But it really is the pressures that determine the heat engine’s maximum efficiency, look at the first link and you'll see it.

In the invention I simply show how a heat engine powering pressure difference can be elegantly created and maintained. Read the fucking article - then complain. Crank In that article I show exactly, why the Carnot's efficiency values are what they are. Do you know why why they are what they are? The answer is that a heat engine will reach its maximum efficiency precisely at that moment when it has lowered the entry-sides over-pressure to the level of exit-sides pressure. A heat engine uses heat just for increasing its entry-sides pressure.

The Carnot's theorem usually gives correct theoretical efficiencies, but only if
a) ambient pressures at the heat engine's entry and exit sides are the same
b) heat engine doesn't leak substance,
c) fluid substance remains in the same (gaseous) phase. Then the only variable influencing the entry and exit side will be pressures will be the temperatures.

But it really is the pressures that determine the maximum efficiency, look at the first link and you'll see it.

And in that invention I show how that heat engine powering pressure difference can be elegantly created and maintained. Read the fucking article - then complain. Crank

Submission + - ASK: Why I get patents to over 90% efficient heat engines? 9

colordev writes: The Finnish patent authorities gave me a patent (FI20210007A1) for a simple (two moving parts) device that harvests energy with over 90% efficiency from small temperature differences. They did it fully aware of the Carnot’s theorem dictating a very small maximum efficiency for a heat engines operating with small temperature differences and near the room temperature. Recently, the same patent authorities (different main examiner) send me a letter, informing about their approval of the “technical usability” and “novelty” of my second patent application. In this new application the same principles are used for powering the fuel consuming vehicles and power plants; again with over 90% thermal efficiencies.

Surprisingly, the government’s patent office is the only instance willing to even take look at the invention. And that’s because they have to! My logs show that none of the ~20 physics professors, or energy companies, or car or windmill manufacturers, or green transition ministries anywhere, or those wacky climate fanatics organizations – no one is even mildly interested in taking a look at the invention.

Thus, I’ve come to realize that the climate problem isn’t real! If it was real, there would be a bounty for inventing big solutions. Now, I’m the only one offering a 300€ bounty to anyone who can show that my invention can’t achieve the green energy transition. The climate interested globalists and the communist climate fanatics are just after filling their own pockets, virtue signaling their own goodness or bankrupting the West.

Two weeks ago the West (read: the EU) promised $300 billion annually to developing countries. The UN and the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry want to spend upwards of $4 trillion a year for the next 30 years for combating climate change internationally. In this sick plot, the governments would be “taking away the risk” of the private sector investments. As I see it ladies, all this spending is and would be unnecessary.

It has come to this. I and the patent authorities seem to be unable to make this invention (“Hukkanen engine”) to not work. Please. try to make it not work! This is important, because IF the damn thing really works, the invisible hand of the free markets would then automatically take care of to entire green transition. For example, the invention could be used for obtaining almost unlimited amounts of cheap electricity from the heat stored in bodies of water. And, it would cause a three-fold increase to the current gas gallon mileage. And it would kill the wind-power industry and make the lithium-powered cars less Eco-friendly than the internal combustion engines. And...

Feel free to use all your nerd superpowers to make it to not work. The proof-of-concept device has only two moving parts. There are not many places where a thought-bug could hide. Maybe you find it?

Comment Re: Cryptomoney is handy for dictators (Score 2) 85

It's true that the source to the first link was Russia's embassy in Kabul. Therefore, I'm sorry that I can't point you to independent sworn in witnesses, who could verify the details of the story. On the other hand: The same information is still being broadcasted by Reuters,YahooNews, New York Post, MSN, ABCnews and 10 thousand other news services. Maybe you should ask them to stop spreading that Russian propaganda.

Anow about the motives. Must the news be not true because the witnesses were in contact with the Russian embassy? What motive's Russians would have to lie about it? What would they gain-seriously? In contrast, it is now known that the Taliban government has no money left and they are begging for millions in form of donations.

Comment Re: No free speech in Europe (Score 1) 105

In the UK, the only requirement is that somebody just has to say that they're offended by it in order for it to be considered a hate crime.

In Finland, no one needs to be offended. it's enough if the prosecutor thinks that, at least in theory, someone might feel offended. Offended, if someone would see, hear or smell certain message...

The Criminal Code of Finland:
Chapter 11 – War crimes and crimes against humanity (212/2008)
Section 10 - Ethnic agitation
A person who makes available to the public or otherwise spreads among the public or keeps available for the public information, an expression of opinion or another message where a certain group is threatened, defamed or insulted on the basis of... blaa

Recently the state prosecutor was offended by her rare failure of getting someone convicted for "hate speech". In that case a member of a Finnish parliament had expressed feeling personal joy over not hearing strange languages upon visiting a garden departments somewhere in the Finnish countryside. State prosecutor had also claimed that mentioning a specific profession of "goat herders " would somehow offend the world's "goat herders" by making them feel belittled. The politician defended his views by stating that, indeed he considers the coat herders profession to be equally valuable as is the state prosecutor's profession.

Comment Re:No free speech in Europe (Score 2, Interesting) 105

Already happening. Germany has pre-ordered additional 150,000 thought criminals to be caught annually. Sweden's ministry of truth knew beforehand that the yesterday's Covid restriction protesters would be a punch of no-good far right extremist nazis(TM). Fortunately, those 10,000 who participated turned out to be only 3,000 - according to state financed medias.

When I saw the title "The EU Approves Sweeping Draft Regulations On Social Media Giants", I was naively hoping for a split second that thank God, they've finally realized the value of free speech and are now forcing the SOME giants to allow it. That was the shortest illusion - ever.

Comment Cryptomoney is handy for dictators (Score 2, Interesting) 85

Looking back, ousted leaders prefer to flee with lots of money.

In 2021 Afghanistan the president fled with 4 cars and a chopper full of money

in 2019 Gambia's ex-president stole almost $1bn before fleeing country

in 2003 In Iraq Saddam instructed his son Qusay to withdrew approximately $1bn from the central bank in Baghdad. Qusay arrived at the bank in Baghdad at 4am (hours before the first US strikes) seized around $900m in $100 bills and a further $100m in euros, loaded them into three tractor-trailers and left.

in 1997 Ecuadoran president Abdala Bucaram fled the capital with $3 million in cash into getaway cars

in 1986 in Philippines Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos flew into exile with $15 million, 24 gold bricks and Imelda's drive-in closet

Bitcoins would have been easier to flee with...

Yes, put all money to my cellphone

Comment Re:Not smart business (Score 0) 100

It's best we keep moving away from the nuclear industry. In Finland two new nuclear power plants are currently being built. The French state is desperately trying to get rid of its state-controlled nuclear company Areva and it seems plausible that the remains of Areva - company may not even be able finalize building of the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant.

Another (Russian) nuclear plant that is under construction is expected to produce more expensive MWh's than most of the competing energy sources. In practice, the some foolish buyers of Fennovoima nuclear power plant's energy have been committing into buying energy at a price of 50€/ MWh, while the other energy sources are clearly cheaper than that. Its quite likely that the Fennovoima's nuclear power plant never be producing any energy at a competitive price.

On the other hand, the price of solar keeps sinking 50% in a decade and it's already enough competitive with the prices of other energy sources. Development of high capacity solar energy storage solutions is much more needed than the new nuclear power plants.

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Comment Re:Scott McNealy said it best... (Score 1) 706

Technically you're 100% right, but Scott McNealy said that quote was incorrect. After which Scott McNealy quoted Scott McNealy incorrectly.

Q: A couple of years ago you made some comments about privacy -- and the lack thereof -- that were widely printed. That was amazingly pre-Patriot Act and pre-9/11. Do you stick by that notion? Should we not be worried about having lost all our privacy?

A: I never said that, did I?

Q: You said, "You already have no privacy."

A: I said, "You have no privacy. Get over it."

While in fact on monday night 25th of january 1999 a group of reporters and analysts recorded Scott McNealy saying "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."

Comment A drowning pimp clutching at a DMCA straw (Score 1) 1

Nothing to worry about...

Using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), our team has now successfully removed the posts related to this incident as well as all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about our users published online. We have always had the confidentiality of our customers’ information foremost in our minds and are pleased that the provisions included in the DMCA have been effective in addressing this matter.

All dating sites are high value sites and will be sooner or later targeted by thieves. But the timing of this theft is especially unfortunate for the company's IPO plans. Maybe a group of data-thieves is in the shadows suggesting a multi-year multi-million dollar "penetration-testing" deal with Ashley Madison.

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