I just saw a headline about Ford patenting a system to eavesdrop on passengers conversations to serve them related ads. If I had patented that before, could I stop it from being used?

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    Pretty sure companies like bp and shell do exactly that. Except the harm reduction is to their oil profits. Can’t have competing tech on the market

    • bizarroland@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      A lot of people accuse them of this in regards to some sort of like water powered engine. So far the evidence seems to be that there’s no way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen that uses less power than the resulting burning of the gas can generate.

      I said that to say take these accusations with a grain of salt.

      • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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        2 months ago

        Oh yea, you may have noticed a tinfoil hat on those telling you that. You can’t make energy out of nothing, splitting it costs as much energy as combining would get you…

        …minus a tonne of losses. Not that oil is remotely efficient in comparison.

        I heard about solar cell tech and such. Apparently they bought the patents and said they’re going to use it expand into green energy. Which they never did, obviously