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Showing Original Post only (View all)This Man One Ups Tesla By Inventing An Electric Car That Never Needs Charging [View all]
The concept of the electric car has been around for a very long time, and as with any other world revolutionizing technology, its taken a while to actually bring them out and have them on the market. It would be great to just throw out all of the red tape that delays the process, but our world doesnt work that way, in fact, its quite the opposite and in an industry dominated by oil, its hard to make your presence felt.
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Giant corporations have monopolies on technologies like this, and they themselves are going to want to control the clean energy market, just as they have been with regards to oil. Clean energy technology has huge implications, not just from an environmental standpoint, but a geopolitical one as well. Perhaps thats why its taken so long for many of them to see the light of day, and many of them never do. Its great to see companies like Tesla out there, but by now, it should be illegal for any manufacturer to make a car that runs on oil rather than electricity or some other form of green technology.
Take for example, the Invention Secrecy Act, it was written up in 1951. Under this act, patent applications on new inventions can be subject to secrecy orders. These orders can restrict their publication if government agencies believe that their disclosure would be harmful to national security.(source)(source)
Could this be the reason why so many revolutionary inventions never saw the light of day?
As reported by the Federation of American Scientists, there were over 5000 inventions that were under secrecy orders at the end of Fiscal Year 2014, which marked the highest number of secrecy orders in effect since 1994. Steven Aftergood from the Federation of American Scientists reports:
The 1971 list indicates that patents for solar photovoltaic generators were subject to review and possible restriction if the photovoltaics were more than 20% efficient. Energy conversion systems were likewise subject to review and possible restriction if they offered conversion efficiencies in excess of 70-80%. (source)
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