On 6/5/06, Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1Q 06, Exxon-Mobil (just ONE energy company) had a > total revenue of $88,980,000.00. $89 MILLION of > Revenue in just 3 months. Now, MULTIPLY that out over > ALL of the "oil companies" over the remaining life of > the world supply of oil... That will give you the > number you need for the "kickbacks". > > your 5 Billion estimate represents only about 30 years > of oil company PROFITS for ONE company... also > assuming their profits do not increase (which is > clearly NOT the trend). > > You will need a heck of a lot more than 5 Billion to > keep the oil companies from using every resource > available to them to squash your hypothetical > invention. > OK, then no kickbacks for them. 1. Invent machine & build prototypes (this is the impossible part). 2. Spread the details into a couple hundred random, yet secure, places. Safe deposit boxes at random banks. Long term storage lockers. Homes of trusted people. Hired attorneys. Servers & private computer systems. All with instructions to release the information to the public upon your death or disappearance (in the case of servers, setup a "dead man's switch" that will take action if you don't respond every x days). Then patent. Further, setup a proper will & trust such that your patents be released into the public domain upon your death, disappearance, etc. 3. Quietly find private investors to fund production. Use a good deal of that money to hire people who know what they're doing to setup government deals in your favor - to get government officials with power on your side. For example, if you're going to be providing a large number of units to the military, it's unlikely government forces in the pockets of the oil companies will destroy you. 4. Produce. Give away the first x units to high profile causes, media celebrities, etc, such to go from obscure nobody to instant fame nearly overnight. 5. Sell to everyone else. What are they going to do? Have you killed? That wouldn't be in their best interests now, would it? Destroy your company? Fine, I'll release my patents & trade secrets and the world will know how to build the devices for themselves. I think you'll suddenly find these people playing ball on your terms. BTW, it wouldn't bother me in the least if they killed me anyway. Small price to pay for the privilege of liberating the world from energy problems. Of course, this entire discussion is pointless since I don't have such a device nor, for that matter, do I even believe building one is within the realm of known possibility... but it's a fun discussion anyway. It's just my way of proving everyone who has ever claimed to have developed such a device but been suppressed by "big oil" is either stupid, a con, or both. It'd be so trivial to walk around these people and make a big splash, I don't see how anyone with even a hint of intelligence (and a working device) could possibly fail. -Ryan ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/HliolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/