GuyGadebois wrote:Exnihiloest wrote:If an idea of 1923 did not take root, there may be good reasons which would still be valid and would also explain the confidentiality of the process on a world scale.
Yes, the "lack of interest" on the part of the oil industry at the time to validate and allow the commercialization of processes aimed at saving what was their business, their influence being able to "make" and "undo" the most valid patents.
Conspiracy theory
A lot of people are interested in anything that can sell, and the patent is public. Few of the "good ideas", that is to say effective and compatible with the stock market of those ready to buy the service or the product, which remain in oblivion. When this happens, it is often that the idea was too early and the technology for implementation insufficient, out of date, or too expensive at the time of the idea, and became available later.