TIL of the Invention Secrecy Act. The government has a program in place which specifically deals with inventions that are deemed to be "threats to national security" (open thread for choice quotes). There are currently 6102 inventions under lock and key, some of which "pertain to energy generation".

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[–]Aetherist 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The Federation of American Scientists is one of the few places available to find out about inventions being kept secret.

"Invention Secrecy Hits Recent High" - https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2018/10/invention-secrecy-2018/

I recall reading about the patent office guidelines for secrecy when they were publicly available. Iirc, any generators over something like 80% efficiency were automatically made secret.

Anyway here is a good place to start too, https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/invention/index.html

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good stuff!

Just more theft by government.

I wonder how many of these inventions are almost identical. Like 50 GEET inventions to make cars more efficient, all basically doing the same thing?