Is the technology almost ready for Unlimited Energy resources? Will one Company Control it?

Question

I watched a program where some scientists were pursuing Nuclear fusion as an alternative to oil. The result: unlimited and clean energy.

However, whatever company solves it first, will they have sole ownership? They will easily become the richest and most powerful corporation on Earth, isn't this both unfair and dangerous?

Answer 1

erm. I think I know the technology which they were working on, It is a long way off, It has been likened to try to keep treacle on the back of a spoon,100 years or so as I remember, not really relevant to this generation's environmental concerns.

I would imagine only a very broad pooling of resources would manage to to make any progress on it, no one company would go it alone, far too risky, it may not even make it out of the experimental lab.

Answer 2

Yes its almost ready . But its not really fusion its close more like turning a light switch off and on . There is a positive and negative charge in matter .You distort that charge and two hydrogen atoms come together hit the switch and they repulse giving an energy surge of helium . You get allot more energy from the repulsion then what it takes to turn them off.

Sure they will have sole ownership but who cares it has got to be better then sending all our money to foreign country's that use the money for weapons against us . Its probably going to make allot of people rich and save the consumer tuns of money wile creating countless amount of jobs clean the environment . Its time for a change of hands our country's going to hell in a hand basket as it is and its not our presidents fault its the greedy oil producing country's living off of our hard work.

There will be plenty of uses for the oil that we have such as plastic, lubrication's and a countless other things we use oil for. Our own oil industry will be alive and well maybe even better off it will just be cutting of the dependency's we have on foreign oil . The sheiks may not see that as a good thing with his 30 wife's to support but hey that's his problem .

Maybe they can sell sand or learn how to work like we do

Answer 3

you mean they'll be an energy equivalent of Microsoft?
very doubtful, research into Nuclear fusion is funded by governments, which means that Intellectual property rights (patents, know how) will not be owned by a single corporation.
but first let's have clean nuclear fusion available, and then we'll think how to divide the profits.

Answer 4

No one company can control any technology forever. Patents are good for a limited time, usually 20 years. After that, even if something is patented, anybody can legally copy it and sell it.

Answer 5

I kind of doubt it that isn't the way it's worked in the past. It usually get stolen, borrowed or altered enough to avoid patent rights.

Answer 6

these resources have been known about for years, but hidden because the corporation are scared that they will be made defunct overnight if these ever get out.

Answer 7

yes