ROBERTS wrote:If you have created some super efficient powerplant which promises to change the status quo radically in favor of the public, and possibly take billions in excessive profit away from the established energy moguls, let's examine what you can expect the reaction of Government and Industry to be:
1). Ignore you and hope you'll go away with no investors furthering your cause.
2). Approach you with a handsome offer-with transfer of all patents and full rights of course to some massive corporation.
3). Deliver an ultimatum.
4). Make you go away. Forever.
NO worries. We agree there is cause for concern, but we've studied and learned from those who've gone before us, historically.
Already looked into what's needed to go shark-swimming and live.
We don't wear rose-colored glasses and are not unrealistic idealists...we know very well how treacherous and dangerous these monsters can be. History has shown that VERY clearly!!
It's Open-Sourced already, Public Domain and has been since last Christmas. We've been taking enormous pressure from some very interesting places and people about reversing the Open-Source License, but that is not going to happen.
We're looking at working WITH the big boys here in Canada, Alberta, like the government both Provincial and Federal and can set up our own powerplant under Alberta's Laws and Guidelines...as Alberta is literally starving for power, we will be rather welcome.
...anyone can and many folks are setting up micro-generation in their homes and selling power to the grid here.
At over 1 Megawatt input to the grid, you get paid as per any other Supplier, and not in 'credits'.
The only reason we don't use the system powering our home as a 'showcase' model is to preserve our home-life, and that's more important to us than most anything else, and not to be sacrificed no matter how good the cause.
It's already out there, genie's out of the bottle and there's nothing they can do to put it back in, which is one of the Pragmatic reasons we open-sourced it, the other main reason was so that anyone and everyone would have equal access to it across the globe.
Level field.
They can freely ignore us, no problem there.
We won't sell out, because we've discussed it, and have more interest in genuine security (food/housing/power/water) rather than colorful toilet paper backed by popularity-contest market fluctuations and mechanics. Money doesn't mean as much to us as it does to many others because we have very wealthy friends, and have seen and listened to their hassles.
Golden Cage.
NO thanks.
Money's not 'evil', but with massive wealth, you have to be prepared to give up some things in life...things we don't want to lose. Honestly, we're afraid that if we allow ourselves to get greedy, we'll end up divorced and such. We'd rather have each other rather than wealth. We're all each other has, not including the Fillies, for Family. NO relatives alive on either side, so we're 'it' for each other, Husband and I.
To be blunt, the most we'll be taking as personal income from the company no matter how big it hopefully gets is whatever we need to stay 'comfortable' and as things are gonna change a lot with currency values over time, it's tough to state a specific dollar value right now, but lets call it $150,000 worth of Buying-Power/Year.
The rest, gets re-invested into the company, and we're discussing scholarships and 'scouting' for those specifically bright minds that deserve a chance to have a really good future, but might need some help with school funding.
Ultimatums.
I will not state why, how, or the mechanics, but that would be a very unwise approach for anyone or any entity to try with us. Suffice to say we'd let the sharks eat other and swim away.
Big corporations have some extreme vulnerabilities, study one sometime, and you'll see it for yourself.
The bigger they are, the more that vulnerability hurts them if exploited.
Make us 'disappear'.
That's actually the worst thing they could do to themselves. There's a few systems John rigged out there and if I don't send a log-in X many times every 24 Hrs, in a specific sequence, and each with a different passcode...EVERYTHING in the development files gets broadcast across the internet to every news outlet/service there is, and that includes ones like Popular Science, Scientific American, and all the rest of the technophile sites/magazines. ALL of it each with a statement of Open-Source License.
There's 10,000 carefully selected and 'relevant' recipients and fax numbers in the 'launcher' of each one, it took me a month straight to get them all set up.
I can't supply the passcodes under t@rture even, because here's a NON-functional example of one:
A0Ih*8t4?q2%f?5&s3mJ%lG#4(0j@_d.U^
The real ones are at least twice as long...good luck to anyone remembering even the 'simple' one above with dedicated effort, and I don't make any effort to memorize them.
Finding them? I don't know where they are, neither does Husband. John passed away last week and took that info with him.
I know it seems like we're paranoid.
The reason we're so well-prepared is because we are both very aware of how 'annoyed' certain powerful entities will be with us and what has happened to other folks in history--we've studied those cases, and learned from them and the mistakes made by the folks involved.
The key is to work 'with' the big boys, be valuable to them.
Also, we're offering them a 'snack' to make sure they know it's best to keep us friendly towards them.
Example:
Oil Companies.
Always want $$.
Recycling plastics...
Use our system to set up and fully power a plastics recycling refinery/processing plant.
They build it big enough, the powerplant that is, they can then sell excess power for profit, and make good money off the recycled plastics as the energy-cost of recycling them has been eliminated. They also get to look like heroes of the modern age in the media also. Thing is, it supplies $$ virtually forever as plastics owing to the molecular structure can be recycled almost endlessly and research is always ongoing to make recycled materials as good as 'virgin' materials.
NO fuel costs, continuous energy-sales revenue, NO waste-handling costs, NO energy cost overhead on recycling, and profits of recycled plastic that they can sell for low prices, and that encourages more and more of industry to use that plastic, and thus the sales grow and they make even MORE $$.
...and positive media image on top of it all.
How much $$ would that be over 5 years?? It's also almost 100% pure Profit given the removal of overhead costs.
We're giving them that idea for Free--no strings attached.
...because what are they gonna do when the oil runs out???
We're actually trying to give them NEW additional revenue streams, not take away from them. We want to try to make the world a better place for ALL of us, and that includes the big energy companies and such too.
There's NOTHING that says clean sustainability and profitability are mutually exclusive.
Now if they want to kill us because we're trying to give them wealth...then in a case like that, fine, as in a case like that the world is too insane for us to remain living in anyways.
