Posted on 04/22/2014 8:58:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We recently gave you a list of 25 trends that would be making people billions. Most of the phenomena will end up benefiting everyone.
But if you fancied yourself as someone who could be turned into a billionaire, you were arguably cheating — these were things everyone has already figured out.
The real challenge, and the greater value and more lucrative pursuit, would be to come up with the solutions to problems that have befuddled engineers for decades or more.
We thought of 10 of them:
Digital devices have become so small that it can be cumbersome to plug them into a power source. Longer-lasting batteries? Nope — Apple iPod God Tony Fadell says pursuing greater efficiency in batteries is a trap. The key is to find ways of squeezing more efficiency out of the devices' other parts — and stealing power from what's around you. University of Washington engineers, among others, are at work on harvesting existing TV and cellular transmissions and turning them into a power source. "This novel technique enables ubiquitous communication where devices can communicate among themselves at unprecedented scales and in locations that were previously inaccessible," they say.
Everyone agrees this is a priority. But there appear to be a hard way and an easier way to achieve it. The former involves lots of expensive regulatory clearance and installations. The latter, currently spearheaded by Google, is called Project Loon. The company plans to send renewables-powered balloons to the edge of space to create an Internet network in remote parts of the world. "We believe it's possible to create a ring of balloons that fly around the globe on the stratospheric winds and provide Internet access to the earth below," they say. Whoa.
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Develop a red gardenia.
Fastest way to riches...become a politician.
These two are the most important, the most critical. Energy and Water.
3. Cheap, Scalable Solar
7. Cheap Desalination
Wifi across the country would be easy. Just look at the thousands of cameras tha have been installed on poles throughout the country. The cameras are broadcasting via Internet.
Piggy back on that.
#11 High efficiency energy storage / batteries
7. Cheap Desalination
I keep reading stories for the past 10 years, every six months or so that this one has been solved.
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currently desalinized water makes for expensive municipal water. Costs for this are all over the map depending on where in the world you are from $600@acre foot to $2000@ acre foot.
By cheap desalination they mean desalination cheap enough for agriculture. Agricultural water needs to be under $100@ acre foot for expensive crops and under $50@acre foot delivered for less expensive crops.
Since most of the world’s deserts are within 1000 miles of a seacoast—if you kill the cost of energy so that pumping water is cheap and desalinizing water is cheap—then it becomes possible to turn the world’s deserts green and basically double the size of the habitable earth.
For cheap energy — Thorium lftr reactors are a good candidate.
There are two other big costs with desalination plants. That’s capital and maintenance costs. At the heart of both are RO membranes. There may well be a solution coming in the near future with graphene — which if it holds to its current promise will be as big as plastics were in the 1960’s or nylon or synthetic rubber in the 1930’s and 40’s. We’ll know in another 5 years.
Also it bears mentioning that salt needs to converted from a cost center to a profit center.
In practice cheap desalinized water would increase the habitable size of the USA by about 1/3-1/2, triple the habitable size of Mexico and increase the habitable size of Australia by a factor of about 100...and so on.
The world’s food issues would be resolved for as much as 300 years.
We had an ethical efficacious system, nobody liked it.
A man named Jesus took care of #10 about 2000 years ago.
11) Build that flying car we have been expecting since the 50,s
I know how to solve the problem of ‘cloaking’ for aircraft. Any member of the Defense Department or Pentagon who reads this can contact me via FReepmail.
Correct. Facebook, Google and Apple are good examples of companies that made billions by taking technology developed by others and then tweaking and adapting it to reach a mass audience.
MySpace paved the way for Facebook. Earlier search engines like Lycos and Alta Vista gave Google the opening they needed. And remember those crappy MP3 players before the iPod that took you half an hour with third party DOS-based software to load a playlist of about 18 songs?
You’re too slow. Black project already dun that.
[ Also it bears mentioning that salt needs to converted from a cost center to a profit center. ]
Lots of industrial metals and chemicals can be extracted from the leftover salt...
Bingo!!!
Post of the day! Thorium based nuclear solves cheap power, cheap water, and rural internet in the same swipe.
I think the future of solar is actually in space. The way to realize this would be to build a “seed plant” on the moon to harvest lunar material to build cheap solar arrays onthe moon to build more factories to build cheap orbial space based solar power plants that beam the energy back to earth via phased microwave power transfer.
If you made $100,000 per year after taxes then you could buy anything you could ever need in the free market because someone would produce it for money( look at the millions of products for sale on Google , internet , ebay , amazon,Walmart, Dollar Tree etc etc). So we don’t need government for ANYTHING. A private company created a whole city DISNEY WORLD in Florida. So democrats create fake crisis like “global warming”,”no health insurance crisis” to justify the very existence of government and the continued growth of government(socialism)
government is the enemy and the problem. the news media and democrat party are also the enemy and the problem
I’ve tried using mesh network wifi to extend internet in rural areas. The problem is that the trees (in my area) are full of water and absorb 2Ghz microwave radio. So the range is very limited.
Another “problem” for the Powers That Be is that replacing fossil fuels defunds the terrorist regimes the PTB depend upon to keep the peons scared (and thus willing to trade freedom for (the illusion of) security).
Ultimately, TPB pay the terrorists salaries, just as Western Bankers funded Hitler’s rise, until he decided to establish State backed and issued currency instead of running Germany on a debt-based banker controlled system.
1. What does firewall cracking have to do with password cracking?
2. The reason passwords can be cracked by brute force is that most people are nitwits and choose weak passwords (e.g. a word from the dictionary with one digit stuck on the end). A proper password (e.g. at least eight pseudo-random characters, which really isn't hard to memorize if you use simple tricks like taking the first letters of a phrase) will still defeat most brute-force attacks (especially since most of them are "I don't have to be faster than the bear" situations -- if you're a reasonably hard target, the bad guys will go after somebody else).
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