I was reviewing (again!) the options open to anyone who succeeds in recreating Bessler's wheel and this is what I think are the potential pluses and minuses.
So you've finished your version of Bessler's wheel and it works. Your choices depend on what you are looking for. Do you want fame and fortune - or just fortune - or would you prefer to just give it away anonymously? The last one looks the easiest but may prove in practice to be impossible.
So you've finished your version of Bessler's wheel and it works. Your choices depend on what you are looking for. Do you want fame and fortune - or just fortune - or would you prefer to just give it away anonymously? The last one looks the easiest but may prove in practice to be impossible.
Placing a video on YouTube for instance, might seem like a safe way for anonymity but you'd be wrong. The video would probably go viral worldwide and the media would be in a frenzy to be the first to find the inventor and write about him or her. or film them, interview them etc etc. They would if necessary, employ hackers to discover everything about you. Anonymity will not be an option.
By the same token fortune alone would not be an option either, for the same reasons as before. Fortune without the fame that goes with it, might be difficult to achieve. Of course you might interest a group of philanthropist who might buy the device off you and develop it themselves with or without your input. That could possibly offer you some kind of protection but it would be impossible to keep the news hounds away from the gates for ever..
So that leaves fame and fortune. At least you retain some kind of control over what the media say about you and the fortune would certainly be substantial. That way the media could have their cake, (or should that their pound of flesh?) and go on their way happy in the knowledge that you have given them their due - and been paid for it.
There is one more method that might do if you wish for a little money and complete anonymity and that is to find someone who would take the device off your hands for a small sum of money to be paid as and when it becomes available. He would receive the fame and fortune and maintain complete confidence about where he obtained the device, possibly taking the credit for it.
All other options such as leasing, renting, patenting etc, all involve the fame part and perhaps the fortune too. So unless you can take the fame or notoriety give it to someone who does want it.
JC
There is one more method that might do if you wish for a little money and complete anonymity and that is to find someone who would take the device off your hands for a small sum of money to be paid as and when it becomes available. He would receive the fame and fortune and maintain complete confidence about where he obtained the device, possibly taking the credit for it.
All other options such as leasing, renting, patenting etc, all involve the fame part and perhaps the fortune too. So unless you can take the fame or notoriety give it to someone who does want it.
JC
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