So You Have a Working Free Energy Generator... Now What?

[hamster]

You're Joe Tinkerer and you managed to build something that produces some amount of electricity continually with zero input. You believe it's dangerous to simply "go public" with it, and that certain people will stop at nothing to prevent it's development and release, so patents and business startup ideas don't appeal to you. You're pretty much a nobody with a fantastic little invention, and you'd like to sell the working model along with a vow of silence about it to anyone willing to shell out a few hundred million for it.

How do you go about finding said folks, the ones who will try to buy you rather than kill you?

[pomodoro]

Well, according to the inventor, Paulo Correa, who apparently did create an overunity plasma device, they tried over 300 of the world's largest multinationals, and each one was disinterested. After that they ended up in the alternative energy circus and got nowhere, fast. Now he seems to have become a recluse, publishing mountains of aether related work.
Personally, I'd release it publicly (and this needs also to be done efficiently) simply to get it out there. The only people allowed to make money out of overunity seem to be the ones who pretend to have discovered something but in reality have not.
Have a read of the document by Correa, its quite interesting
http://www.aetherometry.com/Labofex_Plasma_Physics/labofex_int.php

[Spirit]

http://www.overunity.com/1821/open-source-vs-patenting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

[MagnaProp]

Congrats to you on your device first off.

You're Joe Tinkerer and you managed to build something that produces some amount of electricity continually with zero input....

You get a provisional patent that gives you protection at minimal cost for a year. You then start a 60 day Kickstarter project to see if you can generate 2 million $ and have facebook or Exxon purchase your product for the extra millions of $ you are looking for in those 60 days. Like the Oculus Rift making 2 million on Kickstarter then getting purchased by FaceBook for 400 million and some stock.

If you succeed in 59 days then you live out the rest of your life on a beach or in a cave of your choice as desired. If you don't succeed by day 59, you cancel your Kickstarter project, no one gets charged, you owe no one anything and you go home with your device that wasn't as desirable as you thought it was.

If you can't do that much then you might as well shelve it, open source it, or give it to a millionaire for free as they will surely find a way to steal it from you if you don't have a patent.

Hope I'm wrong but I highly doubt anyone is going to give you the hundred of millions you seek. As Westinghouse told Tesla, it's basically no good if you can't put a meeter on it. Why would they sell your device when they can sell crap batteries that keep customers coming back for more? Sad but true, so we all wait patiently for someone like you to say "screw you" big business and open source your idea for all to benefit from.

[profitis]

Use it as bait to get a good job working for the corps.that way you sit with a nice comfy salary for the rest of ur life.or..shrink the power output of the device drasticly,change its name to the new 'barometric' harvester and dump it straight into the market.you'l make a few mils riding the wave until you get a knock on your front door but by that time you pay the agent off but only if he can prove that its overunity