The Searl Solution To Pollution

[Sprocket]

@Poit - the problem is that back then he was relatively unknown, at least in the public's eyes, so tossing him in prison barely raised an eyebrow.  Today, being both elderly and more in the limelight, especially since the advent of the internet, they wouldn't dare doing that now.  So if they have working prototypes, they should be at least releasing videos.

@e2matrix - the not-paying-his-bills was the story I also had.  At least prison is preferable to the American way of doing things - killing off the inventors!  And you don't need to have an OU-device to garner their attention - Dennis Lee was only selling heat-pumps for God's sake.  Another guy I remember reading about was worth over $400 million, spent $36 million on a wind-farm whose electricity he was going to resell.  One night he got a phone-call informing him that if he didn't leave his facility that very day and never return, his whole family would be dead come morning!  He said, on putting down the phone, the first thing he did was pick up a calculator and worked out what he'd lose financially.  It came to about 10% of his net-worth - not worth his and his families lives he concluded, so he just left!  These American utility companies play for keeps...