Originally posted by Philippos As they make more money from selling energy however, these patents remain well hidden. BMW has a patent of a water-powered engine (as I imagine some more companies do) that has never seen the light of day, as there is much more profit to be made from internal combustion engines.
How does a patent remain "well hidden"? Patents are public information by their very nature...at least they are here in the U.S. They exist to tell everyone that this here is my idea and I get first crack at the profits and recognition from this idea. If a company did develop such technology as the impossible engine, they wouldn't patent it if they were trying to hide it. By filing for a patent, they would make it known to everyone. But the risk in not filing would be that someone else would beat them to it, which is inevitable. Your logic doesn't make sense. Either the option is still there for anyone to profit off of an "impossible" engine, or everyone would know the technology exists and who owns the rights to it.
And if you say that big companies have unlimited power to intimidate anyone from pursuing it, then I ask you, why are there some damn many Nike shoe or other name-brand imitations coming from China and other countries into the U.S. in direct violation to patent laws?!
If a company decides that they don't want to use their patent and would rather license it, that's their choice. They spent the time and money to develop the technology and the time and money to patent it. They deserve to be able to choose how it's used, not someone else. You would be the first person screaming if you spent a million dollars on a technology only to have someone else swoop in and demand to use it because you hadn't yet. It would be no different than someone stealing your photos online. You created them and they belong to you. Just because you aren't making money off them doesn't give someone else the right to take it from you.
As far as hidden engines that do the impossible. Believe me, there is money to be made from a generator that produces it's own energy or an engine that runs on water. Show me the patent on either one please. I don't think there is, which means someone else will come up with it if it is possible because the recognition and profit that would come from such inventions would be unstoppable. As Bill Gates said, "I am not afraid of Intel or Apple. I'm afraid of the guy in his garage coming up with the replacement for Microsoft."
If these patents do exist, then they own it, end of story...and we would all know about it. There is no way it would remain "hidden". And every one of their competition would be trying to find a way to produce something similar without violating the patent. Also, patent's eventually expire and then it's open season.
It's so easy to say something "exists" and there is a conspiracy to prevent it from being known without any proof.
It's like a friend of mine that insists that the contrails from jets in the stratosphere are really chemicals being poured on us by the government for human testing. No matter how you try to explain the physics behind contrails or the impossible logistics involved with such a conspiracy on all commercial jetliners and the millions of people that would have to be involved, they just won't believe it, because they want to believe there is a conspiracy regardless of the logic.