The US Navy has patented or applied for patents for several unusual things invented by someone named Salvatore Pais. Most recently, a compact fusion reactor. Previous inventions are:
High frequency gravitational wave generator
Piezoelectricity-induced Room Temperature Superconductor
Craft using an inertial mass reduction device
The patent for the first in that list was granted, I think the others are still pending. Not sure what the point to the gravitational wave generator is. I mean, what can you do with it?
Anyway, this brings up the question of who Salvatore Pais is and why the Navy feels the need to patent these things. I have several ideas about the former:
The next Nikola Tesla. (We’ll know for sure if he produces Death Rays of a 99-year-old style.)
Nels Bergenholm (We could use some advanced alien intervention right now.)
Doc Emmett Brown (Exactly how much power is that fusion reactor going to generate? It wouldn’t by chance be precisely 1.21 GW, would it?)
As for why, I’ve seen speculation that it’s to cause our political adversaries to waste resources trying to steal or replicate the non-existent inventions. Could be.
Just who he is seems to be up for debate but the internet is full of speculation.
Personally I think he’s a janitor at Bettis Atomic. Place had some serious brains in its day. And don’t forget the blood-sucking monkeys Count Floyd warned us about.
Which Salvatore Pais are you talking about? Salvatore Pais Junior, the high school dropout who spends all day watching the Syfy Channel? Or Salvatore Pais Senior, who’s an Admiral in charge of naval procurement?
I work at the European Patent Office as a patent examiner. I had a gander at the fusion reactor patent application, and it reminds me a lot of the “Polywell” design for a fusion reactor, researched for the US Navy by Bussard (he of the “Bussard ramjet” concept).
I would not be surprised at all if the US Navy decided to send that for a patent. It doesn’t hurt doing so.
