Occasionally some people on the forum seek opinons about protecting their invention in the event that they succeed in designing and building a working Bessler's wheel. Usually the focus of such research is on patenting their design. As some of you may know, after some soul searching as well factual research as I decided against patenting the device. This was not wholly a moral decision although that formed part of the consideration; no, I could see little of advantage and plenty of disadvantages in following that path. I won't go into the arguments for and against patenting again, it’s all here in old posts.
In fact if the main reason for patenting the device is the potential financial reward, I doubt if a patent would provide any significant difference in the amount of money obtainable, in either case, other than the immediacy of such reward. Patenting is a relatively slow business whereas an announcement of success along with details of the design could generate immediate financial rewards.
Returning to the moral issue, some people have suggested that a patent could not be obtained if the current inventor had obtained the design via the interpretation of a number of clues; this of course could apply to me, if I succeeded, but it does not seem very likely to me that such a conclusion would be valid. But it wouldn’t matter if no patent was sought.
Also it has been suggested that a patent taken out on the design would be morally unacceptable because Bessler had the original design and should have profited from it himself, and because he was unable to apply for a patent in those early days, he forfeited what should have been his reward. It will be over three hundred years too late for Bessler to receive his just recognition, but perhaps he suspected it might take this long before he won due acknowledgement for his ingenious invention. Better late than never.
I am against patenting anyway because I think the planet earth needs free access to the design without any restrictions due to patenting laws, not that I think that they would stop anyone ignoring the patent restrictions making their own devices.
Despite the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change having set the world a clear target that we must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to net zero by the middle of this century to have a reasonable chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C., nothing much has happened, hence the many demostrations in support of the IPCC's report. The chief reason being that no one has come up with the answer to electricity generation by a clean, free energy source.....yet.
When I originally decided against applying for a patent if I was fortunate enough to reconstruct Bessler's wheel, I thought I would be content with a small amount of money. But circumstances have changed so dramatically for me and my family in the last eighteen months. My granddaughte Amy Pohl's health requires a large sum of money just to keep her at the new facility in Sheffield. Amy suddenly acquired two awful diseases; Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, which is the most painful affliction a person can get. 24/7 intense pain, super sensitivity to even a soft breeze. But as well she has Functional Neurological Disorder which causes the loss of use in her legs and digestive system.
You can read about her at www.helpamy.co.uk/
The unit she is in is a private facilty offering treatment which is not available anywhere else in the UK, and it costs £5000 a week.
Amy is an amazing person with tremendous strength of spirit and she will recover if she can complete the treatment and return to her job teaching young children. If you wish to donate or share her plight please visit her pages above.
When I originally decided against applying for a patent if I was fortunate enough to reconstruct Bessler's wheel, I thought I would be content with a small amount of money. But circumstances have changed so dramatically for me and my family in the last eighteen months. My granddaughte Amy Pohl's health requires a large sum of money just to keep her at the new facility in Sheffield. Amy suddenly acquired two awful diseases; Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, which is the most painful affliction a person can get. 24/7 intense pain, super sensitivity to even a soft breeze. But as well she has Functional Neurological Disorder which causes the loss of use in her legs and digestive system.
You can read about her at www.helpamy.co.uk/
The unit she is in is a private facilty offering treatment which is not available anywhere else in the UK, and it costs £5000 a week.
Amy is an amazing person with tremendous strength of spirit and she will recover if she can complete the treatment and return to her job teaching young children. If you wish to donate or share her plight please visit her pages above.
JC
