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- CommentAuthorcrusoe
- CommentTimeApr 16th 2012 edited
This is on the back of the Xsorb discussion. Not wanting to hi-jack the thread, or re-start the discussion here, but my gut feeling with this technology, as with other similar-type discussions, is that we are being boxed into a corner with building regs, in order to make somebody very wealthy.
Cue Mission Impossible - is it feasible that we already have the solutions to a problem, but just need the problem to 'become apparent' to showcase the solution, which is grabbed with both hands by those afflicted, with little thought to the long-term consequences, green or otherwise?
IF the solution was as far-seeing and all-conquering as is being suggested, it will likely be impossible to retain exclusivity. A philanthropist will spoil the party, as Linus Pauling did for the makers of heart drugs with his Unified Theory of Cardio-vascular Disease. (And yes, if you still believe cholesterol is the problem, and are on statins or considering heart-bypass surgery, this is worth a read).
But maybe I'm just an old conspiracy theorist...
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CommentAuthorSteamyTea
- CommentTimeApr 16th 2012 edited
Posted By: crusoeis that we are being boxed into a corner with building regs, in order to make somebody very wealthy.
Building Regs certainly box you in (should be airtight), but I don't think they are there to make individuals (with or without eye patch and fluffy cat) wealthy or not.Posted By: crusoeis it feasible that we already have the solutions to a problem, but just need the problem to 'become apparent' to showcase the solution
This was covered in 'An Inconvenient Truth', truth is that we have not seen conclusive irreversible proof that the Earth cannot absorb all we throw at it.Posted By: crusoeit will likely be impossible to retain exclusivity
Why, in some cases, Patents/Copyright is a nonsense, and virtually impossible to enforce.
Maybe I am just an optimist
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- CommentAuthorcrusoe
- CommentTimeApr 17th 2012 edited
An opti-fog might be better job description than optimist steamy, as issues seem to get more clouded as we go on - don't get me started on MCS for example....
And Xsorb, like many new ideas, appears just too good to be true. Hit 10 000 people for £30K and retire to Panama?
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