OverUnity prize money 15825 US$ total until now

[maxc]

Perhaps you can use excess monthly funds to assist longtime members and serious proven builders to
aquire expensive components for new projects. Just order the parts for them and drop ship the parts
to them. That way its not "free money" getting handed out and only people you know will build it will
get parts. That will further encourage the members/content providers to remain loyal to this site.

Just an idea,
~Dingus Mungus 
P.S. The other option is to let it pile up and when we do find "the answer", by then you
should have the money to fund at least 20 simultaneous replications all over the world!
Just imagine 20 identical functioning: TPU's, or Newman motors, or whatever...
All sponsored and built by overunity.com, the site would really get busy then!

Excellent idea, For 15 years i hung-out with a scientist with more brains than resources. He told me about a water injection system that can make an engine put out some power. I was not told exactly how to build it, he was stubborn!
I've gained an easy 10% more power with no fancy metering, or added negative ions.

I have Newman's plans read it over and over and between the lines there's other things going on in the motor than just oscillating batteries and transmutation. I'm dead serious on building it. I have the time. But I need more resources.

mark

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[Aphasiac]

I'm a 2-week lurker... this is my 1st post. So to begin: my kudos to Stefan and the entire O/U community; this is a terrific forum and the prize is definitely a nice & fun little touch.

Earlier in this thread some of you were discussing the implications of this prize as a safeguard to open-source and a deterrent to patenting. I got thinking that whoever does claim the prize will owe much of their success to the community, as we work and contribute together to achieve this common goal.

Perhaps it would benefit this community to consider paying for patents on the winning design, but with a condition that the owner/claimant of the design be this forum, or a cooperative, or some similar variant that would protect said design from being commandeered by an energy corp. In this way, you would effectively be using the free enterprise/capitalist system against itself.

It's just a thought. I'm neither a lawyer nor a seasoned inventor... but like most of us, I am a creative thinker and I try to learn from the trials and tribulations of others. 

What brought me here: A few years ago, a friend of mine designed a fix for a piece of specialty farm equipment and began producing these things at near-to-cost out of his shop for local farmers. An Ag-corp heard about it and called my friend asking to view his design, to which he readily agreed. The Ag-Corp rushed down to the patent office and...well, I'm sure you can finish this story on your own. :P

My intention is not to implore or cajole you, Stefan, or anyone else in any way; I hope to initiate discussion and elicit feedback if there's interest.

Cheers! Mark.

[Dingus Mungus]

This system is a bit easier than that...
Once you post an idea to Overunity, it is essentially open sourced since its freely shared and logged.
Anything found to "work" will have a GNU license applied for, and no one really owns anything.
If some one does patent an idea thats pre-published on this site, then we'll file a civil law suit.

Plus we'll replicate anything. I don't care if ther US millitary owns the patent we'll still build it.
So any corporate hacks reading this can do as they please, it won't stop us.

No one can stop us all, and we'll give it all away for free!
~Dingus Mungus

[ResinRat2]

No one can stop us all, and we'll give it all away for free!
~Dingus Mungus

Amen Brother!
Amen!!!