Engineering360: "New catalyst can recycle cooking oil into biodiesel"

BMIT University, where?

Not RMIT?

Thank you for indicating the article and I would like to know the full name & country of the university.

Most of the authors are affiliated with institutions in the UK.

But two are from Australia, one being RMIT.

I can already tell who will be most interested to own that patent.

Farmers making their own fuel from scraps that they own from their land?

Oil and Gas CEOs will find that preposterous and acquire this technology and put it where all the previous, energy efficient and non polluting technology patents are- in their vaults, never to be seen or heard of again.

The Diesel engine was invented for that very purpose- so that farmers could have their own fuel supply for their tractors and other machinery.

Diesel is a waste byproduct that stems from refining gasoline. Why exactly does it cost more/gal than gasoline while being a "byproduct"?

Because it can, since there is no alternative provided in the past for industrial applications of heavy machinery.

This is a great invention and I wished there was a way to ensure the public benefit off of this catalyst.

Patents are public documents - they cannot be put in vaults. The worst that anybody can do is acquire the full rights of exploitation (presumably at great cost, since the patentee is not going to give those away), and then hold the rights without exploiting them until the patent goes into the public domain. Meanwhile, everybody and his brother has been able to see it, and to work out ways around it or improvements to it.

This is one conspiracy theory that really has no merit.

Yes, they are public documents- you can look at them.

But, they are OWNED. So, the "vault" part is figurative.

And just before they run out, they are extended.

And, if it is a patent of technology of cutting edge and procedure, you can look at it publicly as long as you like but you still can't use the technology or processes to get to the result you desire.

Fact is that a plethora of patents are owned by private corps but have been fully, or to a great part, financed by the public! At our public Universities, for example.

What the public gets is the honor of holding the bag.