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mfcorey1

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Wed May 30, 2018, 08:03 AM May 2018

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, it’s 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 doesn’t work that way, in fact, it’s quite the opposite and in an industry dominated by oil, it’s 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 that’s why it’s taken so long for many of them to see the light of day, and many of them never do. It’s 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)

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2018/04/25/this-man-one-ups-tesla-by-inventing-an-electric-car-that-never-needs-charging/

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The very last thing I am is a scientist, but I've never understood why a car can't generate its own Vinca May 2018 #1
Why Be Logical? dlk May 2018 #2
conservation of energy Locrian May 2018 #4
Thanks for pointing that out, Locrian. I'm a little surprise how few people seem aware of Newton's Nitram May 2018 #16
The three laws of thermodynamics Xipe Totec May 2018 #5
My sarcasm meter might be broken genxlib May 2018 #6
Well, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck. Vinca May 2018 #23
Irregardless genxlib May 2018 #26
That system just captures a bit of lost energy. Codeine May 2018 #34
Patents are not what you think they are VMA131Marine May 2018 #58
Thats what a hybrid does d_r May 2018 #7
The term is "resistance." For instance, it takes energy for electricity to move through a wire. 3Hotdogs May 2018 #8
8th grade science, dude. Codeine May 2018 #12
Um, Vinca, it's the wind that turns WINDmills. Are you suggesting we put sails on cars? Nitram May 2018 #14
I like that idea! But then to move a 4,000 car up a hill would take a pretty big sail. Canoe52 May 2018 #31
Hmmmm. . . Codeine May 2018 #35
Not to mention, you couldn't go into the wind. Nitram May 2018 #40
Believe it or not, it is possible.... hunter May 2018 #42
Very interesting. Nitram May 2018 #44
If it can be done with a turbine it can probably be done with sails too. hunter May 2018 #46
I remember a land lubber leaning against the boom, drink in hand. Nitram Jun 2018 #65
Sailboats don't head directly into the wind, but tack at angles, Ilsa May 2018 #54
My wife is a wind surfer. hunter May 2018 #55
I used to sail. Ilsa Jun 2018 #59
A bird-like flapping and tacking sail boat would probably induce severe sea sickness in most people. hunter Jun 2018 #61
I found that people tended to get sea-sick with the wind behind us and the waves swinging us Nitram Jun 2018 #63
I really learned to sail during my 20 years in Japan. Took my 13-foot dingy out onto Tokyo Bay. Nitram Jun 2018 #62
That's cool. I've been on a big ketch like that. Ilsa Jun 2018 #66
It was the perfect boat out on the Pacific Ocean in big rollers. Nitram Jun 2018 #67
That's right. The best way to put on the brakes is to head directly into the wind and let out the Nitram Jun 2018 #64
Wow - I'm never going to respond to a post like this again. You guys are nasty. Vinca May 2018 #22
Yeah, people can be nasty. demmiblue May 2018 #27
Don't sweat the snarky ones Vinca, they forget that everything is relative Uncle Joe May 2018 #43
Yes that's true, but only if you can do the math. hunter May 2018 #50
Einstein was no Isaac Newton either because Newton WAS a brilliant mathematician, Uncle Joe May 2018 #57
Here you go: Turbineguy May 2018 #53
That's what an alternator does. cemaphonic May 2018 #25
LOL... not possible, would violate the 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics. InAbLuEsTaTe May 2018 #28
Regerative braking. alfredo May 2018 #29
GM volts act as a generator and charge batteries...it is not a gas engine. Demsrule86 May 2018 #30
WOO-hoo! genxlib May 2018 #3
Ha ha! I forgot about that, is it still up there? KelleyKramer May 2018 #37
It's going to be robbob May 2018 #38
This is bullshit on so, so many levels. DetlefK May 2018 #9
Utter bullshit jberryhill May 2018 #10
I'll get you a deal on a car like this, that's been moving 30 km/sec without gas for years struggle4progress May 2018 #11
Dude is either claiming to have invented a perpetual-motion machine... Orsino May 2018 #13
Collective Evolution. FFS... SidDithers May 2018 #15
I was at BBQ over the weekend and a guy was telling the old story about the carburetor that runs on FSogol May 2018 #17
What Detlef and Berryhill Said ProfessorGAC May 2018 #18
This Just In: Perpetual Motion Still Impossible MineralMan May 2018 #19
One wonders what the OP is doing there. Codeine May 2018 #20
Yes. Sources matter. They matter a lot. MineralMan May 2018 #21
Truth be told, I'm a bit interested in the Truth about Giant Humanoid Skeletons cemaphonic May 2018 #24
Here, you read this and then give me the synopsis ProudLib72 May 2018 #33
My grandfather was a machinist who tried his hand, at the turn of the century, Canoe52 May 2018 #32
My grandfather was always thinking up ways to detect U.F.O.s hunter May 2018 #45
There is a non-BS way of doing this... JHB May 2018 #36
But...(and I ask this sincerely...) robbob May 2018 #39
Why not wind, solar and tidal? NT Adrahil May 2018 #48
And hydro, solar, wind, etc. JHB May 2018 #56
Yes, I am worried about how clean an electric car really is, robbob Jun 2018 #60
This has to happen. Sort of a Blue Rhino like your propane tanks, but for batteries. Adrahil May 2018 #49
That what Tesla wants! That's why Elon Musk placed most of their patents in the Public Domain. TheBlackAdder May 2018 #41
You know regenerative braking is a thing, right? Adrahil May 2018 #47
When I was living in Los Angeles in 1969 Turbineguy May 2018 #51
In the 70s some people believed there was a carburetor patented Hoyt May 2018 #52
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