what would you do

[frostyk72]

if you inveted a working fusion device what would you do with it?

me.
i would have one at every hospital
and power would be free for them.
and free for schools.
and anyone that stored everything on there computer and never deleted it
and stored everything they did. and things around them.

attached an essay i did for tafe, give you a good idea if you understand it

steven whittam

[Jerry Biehler]

Make money, retire.

Hospitals, for the most part, are for profit entities.

Schools dont use enormous amounts of power (Sub-college).

Just because you want to give it away dosnt mean you can. For example, BPA gets the power free from the the dams along the Columbia River. You still have to pay to get it. You pay to install and maintain infrastructure among other things.

If you "give" the power to a school, you still end up paying for it one way or another.

TANSTAAFL

[Doug Coulter]

You can't give away what you don't have, either. If you don't patent it, someone else will and prevent you from giving it away -- this has happened many times, especially in the US with our thoroughly broken patent and legal systems. The big boys can out-system you with expensive lawyers pretty easily, and often do. They can simply tie you up longer than you will live in court if they please.

And although they hate their competitors, they hate anyone new and small threatening them all, so they patent everything in sight, and cross license them -- so just about anything cool you could think of, they gotcha already. Even entertaining your cat with a laser pointer is patented.

So if at some point you think you might actually be onto something, establishing your ownership and prior art become a very big deal, or it will simply be stolen from you -- legally. Which by the way is one of the good things about this place -- we are establishing prior art in a neutral way they will find it hard to cheat their way out of.

That is, if you have a few tens of millions of bucks to get it to court and keep it there, that's about the average cost of a patent challenge against a big guy even when prior art and obviousness are well, obvious.
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The potential money here is big enough that of course you didn't think you'd just get to easy street that easy, right? As Jerry says, TANSTAAFL -- and if you don't know what that means, check out some Robert Heinlein.