xoverthirtyx t1_jcx5jz5 wrote on March 20, 2023 at 6:23 AM

Reply to comment by Zyxyx in Newly discovered enzyme that turns air into electricity, providing a new clean source of energy by fleepglerblebloop

If this were in the US it would be given to a defense contractor to develop and the public wouldn’t reap any benefits of it imho.

Zyxyx t1_jcx6gi4 wrote on March 20, 2023 at 6:35 AM

Just like with the internet and gps, right?

xoverthirtyx t1_jcxb3ui wrote on March 20, 2023 at 7:42 AM

Not even. Now that you mention it, pharmaceutical and gas/oil companies would be a better example.

Let’s take a step back, though, are you bothered that I would suggest that certain interests in the US wouldn’t want a new, revolutionary energy source to the be easily available to its citizens if it were discovered here?

Hope not. Take care!

Zyxyx t1_jcxc5yx wrote on March 20, 2023 at 7:58 AM

Because you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding on how the world works.

Do explain how a science paper published by a team in the US is in any kind of danger that a paper published by a team in Australia is not.

Let's say big oil is out to discredit all non-oil research, they'll just leave this one alone because the research team wasn't american?

A pharmaceutical company spending billions on R&D on a new drug and then keeping it a secret is fundamentally different to a science research team conducting research on bacterium and publishing its findings for everyone to see.

xoverthirtyx t1_jcyc6y4 wrote on March 20, 2023 at 2:29 PM

If you're trying to tell me that advances made in energy, transportation, and medicine aren't/wouldn't be stymied in the US by the corporations who control the laws governing their use and availability to its citizens, then you might know something about the world that I don't, but it's not this world.