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Originally Posted by jamesqf
So we have Dean "my stupid 2-wheel thing is going to change the world" Kamen doing something that was done decades ago, and hyping it as a revolutionary breakthrough? I do think Stirling-engine hybrids would be nice to have (as I've perhaps too often said), but I hate to see someone feeding his ego by taking credit for other people's ideas.
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If you design something that doesn't work or is never realized, you can't take credit as the first to do it. The idea may be decades old, but it's not the idea that matters (we have a surplus of ideas, and they come cheap), it's the execution that's key. It's not that I'm defending him (he's actually a decent guy in person, however) - but if I somehow get a viable fusion reactor or similar working in my garage, I want to be able to say "I'm first, I got it working, this is revolutionary." Just say'in
