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I'm just not buying that. It's well known that several hundred patents a year get swept up under a "secrecy order" and disappear. But most of these are from a
by swamp40 13y ago
I'm just not buying that.
It's well known that several hundred patents a year get swept up under a "secrecy order" and disappear. But most of these are from a) defense contractors working on military systems and b) nuclear research.
Occasionally (maybe 20 per year), an inventor unaffiliated with the government will attempt to get a patent, and have it get swept up under a secrecy order.
But a new type of data storage? I would surely think the government would let this get developed and refined in the private arena.
Cutting edge development is a sinkhole for massive amounts of money. Just think how many hard drives a billion dollars could buy? I don't think it makes sense economically, when there is a commonly available alternative.
What worries me more is the possibility that the oil industry has spies with control over this "secrecy order". The fabled "200 mile per gallon carburetor" type stuff.
It is quite easy for me to believe that a trillion dollar industry would attempt to protect itself by any means possible.
- VladRussian2 13y ago>What worries me more is the possibility that the oil industry has spies with control over this "secrecy order". The fabled "200 mile per gallon carburetor" type stuff. >It is quite easy for me to believe that a trillion dollar industry would attempt to protect itself by any means possible. all the engineering calculations for a car you can make yourself starting from the first principles, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_dynamics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_dynamics etc... It would be very interesting if you can come up for 200mpg goal with better shape or lighter design or better in some other way than that http://green.autoblog.com/2013/04/01/vw-hints-hyper-efficient-260-mpg-xl1-could-come-to-us/ http://green.autoblog.com/2013/04/01/vw-hints-hyper-efficien...