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