What’s the best way to launch a breakthrough new energy technology?

1. What’s the best way to launch a breakthrough new energy technology? • “Open Source” concept • Invention and prototyping • No patents on core technology • Demonstration of technology at high profile press conferences in key cities globally • Simultaneous wide-broadcast dissemination of “how-to-build” plans on the Internet • Public is encouraged to use and improve technology and create useful derivatives (no licensing or royalties)

2. Why should a breakthrough energy technology be “open sourced”? • There is no guarantee that patents will be granted for the core energy technology in certain jurisdictions (such as the U.S.).

3. Why should a breakthrough energy technology be “open sourced”? • The patent process is quite slow, often taking years, especially in jurisdictions where the concept is challenged (which is more likely with controversial concepts).

4. Why should a breakthrough energy technology be “open sourced”? • Given our acute planetary challenges, the timeline for implementation of new energy is a key factor. Open sourcing facilitates a more compressed time frame for implementation.

5. Why should a breakthrough energy technology be “open sourced”? • Open sourcing the technology will tap into the brain trust of millions of intelligent, creative people, who could improve upon it and create countless derivative products and businesses.

6. Why should a breakthrough energy technology be “open sourced”? • The implementation will occur more quickly (perhaps virally) as people become excited, motivated, and hopeful. People are enthused when we feel we have a stake and a role to play in a great endeavor.

7. Why should a breakthrough energy technology be “open sourced”? • The standard business model is much more vulnerable to the inertia of corporate thinking and the obstructive behavior of powerful vested interests in business and government circles. Open sourcing simply ignores these and does an end run around the conventional forces.

8. Why should a breakthrough energy technology be “open sourced”? • Once the first successful new energy technology is open sourced, others who have been holding back legitimate technologies for various reasons will do a "mad dash to be second". Many of these will be open sourced as well. It takes some courage and strength to be the first one to “plow the field”.

9. Why should a breakthrough energy technology be “open sourced”? • A truly disruptive new energy technology has no precedent. There is no template. There are no guarantees that the standard business model will work this time, since it has been thwarted so many other times. There is a timely and synchronistic fit between the internet-facilitated open source concept and new energy. They are both about freedom.

10. Why should a breakthrough energy technology be “open sourced”? • Patents would likely be unenforceable when dealing with a technology so critical to the planet. Is China likely to respect the patents? India? Any third world nation that is energy-poor, heavily polluted, with hungry and thirsty populations? • Any society that recognizes urgency in efforts to remediate the pollution of our skies, water, and land and provide for the material well-being of its citizens could easily justify a sovereign and moral position to ignore patents on breakthrough energy technology.

11. Why should a breakthrough energy technology be “open sourced”? • On the issue of a "controlled roll-out" of breakthrough energy technology, it may be unrealistic. Either the technology is completely suppressed from the public domain (as it has been), or it is unleashed by (and to) the grassroots. • Who should become the arbiters of the decision to "control" the roll out? Who is truly wise, without special vested interests?

12. Why should a breakthrough energy technology be “open sourced”? “New wine should not be put in old bottles". For good reason. The old methods are not expansive enough, may easily rupture, and spill and squander the contents. New ideas require new methods.