Charge decision makers at any polluting business who buys a patent for a cleaner technology - simply to make sure it never comes to market - with treason or crimes against humanity.
At the very least it should be illegal to buy a patent for the purposes of keeping it from being produced and given the amount of money at stake penalties must be severe. A one percent increase in an engines efficiency means trillions in lost profits for big oil.
Air and water pollution causes hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of deaths every year and is putting the continued existence of human life on this planet at risk so that a very few can make obscene profits while the vast majority needlessly suffer respiratory illness, cancer, global warming, etc.
It is standard for Oil companies to buy up battery and other fuel efficiency technology in order to keep it off the market or "develop it so slowly that it grinds progress to a halt. And of course that puts the best, most efficient, least toxic materials off limits for anyone else trying to develop similar technology…seriously hampering advancement of cleaner engines.
The Oil and Utility companies get the patents by instigating frivolous lawsuits they know they'll never win but that the smaller companies can't afford to litigate. They file bogus claim after bogus claim with an infinite supply of legal talent on permanent salary and unlimited funds.
First they will bankrupt a company…then they offer the environmental entrepreneur a chunk money to wash their hands of the project and sell the patent once there is no chance the company can ever recover financially or afford to produce it once they've hemorrhaged all their capital in legal fees.
Then they force a draconian non-disclosure agreement and the public never hears about it. They spend billions of dollars in TV and radio ads to green up their images and to make sure no one ever does a story on the practice.
If that is not a crime against humanity what is?
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And let's start taxing these corporations too.
We should nationalize the oil procurement and refinement business. Then we can cap the price of fuel. Take the profit out of an essential product that drives our economy. All American business is depended upon carbon venders to supply energy, to which the venders pay congress to give them tax breaks and to keep them unregulated (to a degree).
30. Protect and Defend Free Energy Inventors. The United States Government must write laws to protect and defend “Free Energy Inventors.” Free energy is simple to create it just requires the political will and protection to flourish. Presently, Obama is nearly ready to pass “Cap and Trade” legislation that will place a cost on carbon pollution. This tax is all ready figured into future budgets. Since this revenue is all ready spent, any free energy device would not be accepted since it could interfere with future/present tax outlays.
• Free energy inventors are a persecuted class of citizen. Every inventor that shows promise has been threatened, slapped with secrecy orders, stolen, beaten or killed for their ideals and inventions. The powers that be are deeply embedded with the carbon fuel industry. The largest fraud in human history is that of carbon fuels. Ever since Nikola Tesla, 1943, has free energy devices been suppressed. Today, you can Google “free energy” and come across thousands of inventions along those lines. Innovation should be protected; it is our future and without it, this country will die. Stop suppressing the one thing that makes America a great country. I have heard there are in excess of 30,000 secrecy orders on new ideas and technology, since it may clash with the powers that control energy. Reviewing and releasing these secrecy orders could the be fast route in reviving America’s economy.
• The electric generator has not evolved much since its conception. One unit of energy in resulting one unit of energy out. This is a very inefficient system and it has stayed this way because it very profitable for the carbon fuel venders. I have personally seen devices that implore greater efficiencies in energy creation (web searches), but will never see the light of day because it threatens the carbon venders’ bottom lines. Presidents and congressmen have promised for years to combat the problems of energy but they talk the talk but not walk the walk. Google “free energy” or “HHO gas engine.” You will find its there, but its just being wiped out systematically by those who want your money for heating your homes and filling your gas tanks. Carbon is the greatest con job in human history.
• I dream of a day when the energy to heat my house, drive my car, and power my electronics was absolutely free. Where a neighborhood banded together to purchase an energy device to power their street thus removing themselves from the grid. The end of the oil age and into the golden age. This is my dream and it can be now, but it is systematically stamped out by the powers that control our daily lives. Innovation which was our nations driving force has ended, but it is not dead, it simply needs your protection to flourish. Innovation is what drives our economy; it supplies jobs and opportunities. Innovation can lift our country from this rut of depression. Innovation is the key that unlocks the next golden age of mankind.
KDtroxel. There's some good ideas there. Separate them out into idividual parts and post them as new ideas. I would support them.
This is ridiculous. Most green/clean technologies are ignored not because their patents are bought out, but because they aren't cost effective. This posting is analogous to the urban myth that oil companies are hiding a secret 200 mpg carburator.
Voting down.
Protect and Defend Free Energy Inventors, this idea can be found here:
http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/4162-4049
If there were a 200mpg carburator, (or another completely non-polluting technology altogether) how much do you think the oil companies would pay to see it go away?
They have hundreds of billions of dollars at their disposal and absolutely no law to stop them. Do you really think they wouldn't go to ANY length to protect their situation?