Say you invented a free energy source, how long before you get "taken out" ?

Rabidlamb · 17-01-2012 03:43PM #1

So you've managed to extract & contain hydrogen simply or have stable cold fission going on in your bathroom.
You know the minute you try to register a patent you're on the grid.
Do you hand the idea over to a University allowing them to register it or does that put more lives at risk ?.
You could publish it online but that would mean losing out on royalties big time.

Either way you've upset the world's balance so much you're a dead man walking.
People would remember you mind.

44leto · 17-01-2012 03:45PM

Bollox you would be the worlds first trillionaire. Investers would flock to you quicker then anything else.

Feeona · 17-01-2012 03:45PM

Do you mean 'taken out' in an Al Pacino way (Godfather) or in an Al Pacino way (Scent of a woman)?

chin_grin · 17-01-2012 03:46PM

Did you just watch Chain Reaction?

Maximus Alexander · 17-01-2012 03:47PM

I'd send the plans to Julian Assange before I went public.

Genghiz Cohen · 17-01-2012 03:48PM

Too late guise!
Orbo have taken the title!

AnonoBoy · 17-01-2012 03:50PM

Ah sure the water powered car was invented in the 1950's. It's just that 'The Man' don't want you to know about it so he can keep feeding the monkey. And that monkey has its finger on the button man. And those button-down types in City Hall don't play by the rules you and I gotta play by man. There's rules for the ordinary Joe and then there's rules for the elite man. Elite was a great computer game, do you remember that one man? I had it on the BBC Micro back in the day. Few joints, couple hours of Elite. Good times......

What was I talking about again?

Shryke · 17-01-2012 04:01PM

Someone was definitely watching Chain Reaction.

FatherLen · 17-01-2012 04:05PM

i hate that film

Biggins · 17-01-2012 04:07PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

So you've managed to extract & contain hydrogen simply or have stable cold fission going on in your bathroom.
You know the minute you try to register a patent you're on the grid.
Do you hand the idea over to a University allowing them to register it or does that put more lives at risk ?.
You could publish it online but that would mean losing out on royalties big time.

Either way you've upset the world's balance so much you're a dead man walking.
People would remember you mind.

If you can survive the first 48 hours, you should be ok.

--Kaiser-- · 17-01-2012 04:07PM

No such thing as free energy, in this forum we obey the laws of thermodynamics

Sindri · 17-01-2012 04:07PM

I'd use to create a time machine, possible with the energy in my control, go back in time and stop myself from creating the energy source in the first place.

Problem solved.

*Dusts off hands*

hooradiation · 17-01-2012 04:08PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

So you've managed to extract & contain hydrogen simply or have stable cold fission going on in your bathroom.
You know the minute you try to register a patent you're on the grid.
Do you hand the idea over to a University allowing them to register it or does that put more lives at risk ?.
You could publish it online but that would mean losing out on royalties big time.

Either way you've upset the world's balance so much you're a dead man walking.
People would remember you mind.

Now that I think of it, the guy who invented the wheel is dead too. You might be onto something.....

Sindri · 17-01-2012 04:08PM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

No such thing as free energy, in this forum we obey the laws of thermodynamics

Nermonynamics?

Duggy747 · 17-01-2012 04:09PM

I don't bother with any scientific experiments in the fear that I'll get too into it and wind up like Jeff Goldblum and somehow become an insect called BrundleFly

Nothingbetter2d · 17-01-2012 04:10PM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

No such thing as free energy, in this forum we obey the laws of thermodynamics

solar and wind energy is free

wes · 17-01-2012 04:10PM

If such a person is smart enough to make a free energy source, I am sure they would also know how to spread the know how accross the internet pretty damn quickly. There are multiple methods for getting information out there, that would be very hard to contain.

chin_grin · 17-01-2012 04:11PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

solar and wind energy is free

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it's merely converted from one state to another.

Oh wait, cost wise? Yeah, it'd be taxed. :pac:

Nothingbetter2d · 17-01-2012 04:12PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it's merely converted from one state to another.

Oh wait, cost wise? Yeah, it'd be taxed. :pac:

lol imagine everytime the sun shined esb sending you a "guestimated bill"

Lizzybet · 17-01-2012 04:13PM

I am a very hot woman. I don't need to invent anything to be taken out;)

Maximus Alexander · 17-01-2012 04:16PM

Lizzybet wrote: »

I am a very hot woman. I don't need to invent anything to be taken out;)

You should probably take off your coat. You'll get dehydrated.

Standard Toaster · 17-01-2012 04:16PM

I'd save it onto a 5½in floppy disk. Be safe there.

Ghandee · 17-01-2012 04:17PM

Taken out where to?

Hope its an Indian, then the pub.

I like a good curry I do!

Standard Toaster · 17-01-2012 04:18PM

*TREADSTONE ACTIVATED*

Biggins · 17-01-2012 04:19PM

Free... FREE!!!!

Michael O' Leary has just turned over in his plane with that horrifying thought!

Stiffler2 · 17-01-2012 04:24PM

I've been carrying out experiments on my willy for perpetual motion of never ending energy.

It just never seems to stop.

Lizzybet · 17-01-2012 04:25PM

LeighH wrote: »

You should probably take off your coat. You'll get dehydrated.

I am not wearing a coat. i don't believe in wearing too much:)

bleg · 17-01-2012 04:25PM

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Too late guise!
Orbo have taken the title!

Step 1: Magnets
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Free energy!

Chuck Stone · 17-01-2012 04:29PM

If you put the plans online they'd be all across the planet with in a matter of hours. Then killing you would be a waste of time.

Sindri · 17-01-2012 04:30PM

My father, a physics teacher, probably wouldn't believe me and he'd join forces with the League of Villains to have me taken care off.

Then I'd have to ask Optimus Prime for help because the Decepticons would try and steal it, in typical comical fashion where they fail miserably but nobody dies, except Optimus Prime so Hasbro can release a new toy when he is resurrected.

Biggins · 17-01-2012 04:31PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

If you put the plans online they'd be all across the planet with in a matter of hours. Then killing you would be a waste of time.

Indeed.
Thats exactly why I said that if you can survive the first 48 hours, you should be ok.

Funny

- but true! :eek:

Then again, every oil company in the world besides the oil based countries, might just continue on with their hit contract just for spite.

RUN!

...And keep running!

Say you invented a free energy source, how long before you get "taken out" ?

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