Because 'Big-Uranium' bought up all the patents and made them secret.
You can't make a patent secret. That's the point of patents, we're not a system of trade secrets. Knowledge gets shared when the patent is approved even though exclusive rights are retained by the inventor for 20 years. I'm sure the majority of thorium reactor technology patents are expired since research ended so long ago. Now if the researchers never patented their research and kept it secret that's another matter.
There are many corners to pass for a technology to become mainstream. Fuel Cells have already passed several of these.
They've gone from an idea on a blackboard, to a gadget in a lab, and now multiple large companies have put out prototype devices. The Honda fcx clarity car being and portable batteries being just two. Fuel cell buses are already prowling the streets of several cities.
Probably the biggest advances yet to come are cost, large scale production, and wide scale distribution of fuel for the fuel cells.
The fact is fuel cells are here now and already working hard, they just need more improvements to be mainstream.
There is a simple, but not practical at the moment test. You take a planet that's empty, put a bunch of simple lifeforms on it and see what evolves! Give humanity a couple millenium and we could test it. The only way to test for an intellegent creator is for the creator to give you a sign himself. That's no test at all.
So, wouldn't these be patents for processes of altering DNA sequences in a certain manner to produce a certain effect in the body. I'm pretty sure you can't simply patent the letters and stake out certain portians of the human genome like it was some old west gold rush.
If given the chance to fight a war in space,or a very high mountain, I'd jump at the chance! Bring on the sub-orbital death machines, I'll take 'em on.
Alright, I'm guilty of this one. This one lady was pestering me so badly about why some of the sytem files on her computer had been corrupted. I explained that there could be many different reasons. I diddn't know the specific one. She kept bugging me to find out exactly why the files went bad. So, I told her that the massive solar flare the last week was most likely the cause. She diddn't like that too much.
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Because 'Big-Uranium' bought up all the patents and made them secret.
You can't make a patent secret. That's the point of patents, we're not a system of trade secrets. Knowledge gets shared when the patent is approved even though exclusive rights are retained by the inventor for 20 years. I'm sure the majority of thorium reactor technology patents are expired since research ended so long ago. Now if the researchers never patented their research and kept it secret that's another matter.
There are many corners to pass for a technology to become mainstream. Fuel Cells have already passed several of these. They've gone from an idea on a blackboard, to a gadget in a lab, and now multiple large companies have put out prototype devices. The Honda fcx clarity car being and portable batteries being just two. Fuel cell buses are already prowling the streets of several cities. Probably the biggest advances yet to come are cost, large scale production, and wide scale distribution of fuel for the fuel cells. The fact is fuel cells are here now and already working hard, they just need more improvements to be mainstream.
Simply mail your iBook back in a box with 2000 special green slips of packing paper for protection. Please allow 6-8 weeks for delievery.
There is a simple, but not practical at the moment test. You take a planet that's empty, put a bunch of simple lifeforms on it and see what evolves! Give humanity a couple millenium and we could test it. The only way to test for an intellegent creator is for the creator to give you a sign himself. That's no test at all.
So, wouldn't these be patents for processes of altering DNA sequences in a certain manner to produce a certain effect in the body. I'm pretty sure you can't simply patent the letters and stake out certain portians of the human genome like it was some old west gold rush.
Now to put some in my Peltier Beer cooler http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~arnesen/peltierbeer/
If given the chance to fight a war in space,or a very high mountain, I'd jump at the chance! Bring on the sub-orbital death machines, I'll take 'em on.
Alright, I'm guilty of this one. This one lady was pestering me so badly about why some of the sytem files on her computer had been corrupted. I explained that there could be many different reasons. I diddn't know the specific one. She kept bugging me to find out exactly why the files went bad. So, I told her that the massive solar flare the last week was most likely the cause. She diddn't like that too much.