How To Make Billions of Dollars = Solve Big Problems

in #story8 years ago (edited)


How do you make billions of dollars? One way to do it is to solve extremely difficult problems. Here are five global problems that need to be solved, that if you solve them at scale could make you billions. 

Here are 5 big problems Business Insider has identified:

  1. Manufacture Wireless Energy
  2. Transmit Internet to Remote Global Areas
  3. Design More Economical Solar Cells and Solar Installation
  4. Create Affordable Water Desalination
  5. Better Weather Prediction 

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Just thought the Steemit community would be interested in working to solve these problems. We all could benefit by unlocking solutions to these problems and in effect possibly unlocking financial freedom for each other... 

...Imagine if electricity, internet and water was free or at least more accessible. 

What do you think? How do we solve these problems together?

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Interesting thoughts, but unfortunately the vast majority are followers and not doers. Old old saying "If its a problem too you, it will probably be a problem to someone else. Find a solution and people will pay you. Always think of tin can and then someone came up with a tin opener. The simple things that annoy us we need to find solutions. Good Luckl

the solutions to these queries are largely complete. there are powerful interests going to great lengths to keep these things from us. my first question is, how does humanity get them out of the way? the bulk of humanity has not seen that it is in their interest to reach for this level of liberty.

Why do you think there are interests working to prevent this level of financial freedom and liberty? Is it servitude in the name of GDP output? I have seen great innovations in energy by Bloomenergy that could decentralize energy at scale while driving down the cost, but the company only works with big corporations.

it is servitude but in the service of what? GDP at least benefits someone. these people are annihilating even their own ability to exist. they seem to think they are making a future where we can just be gotten rid of. "they" being the centralized, moneyed, power mongers, of all stripes. feudalism 2.0.

the knowledge and individual power now exists to throw off this madness. the time is coming when the masses of people will either recognize that they are being destroyed, and give up or will take control of their lives and live. i think it may already be too late.

While these are noble ideas, they will more than likely not see the light of day...at least as long as the elite class continues writing the rules...there is no profit in providing free access to anything...and affordability is often determined by the ebb and flow of the supply and demand cycle...that's why there aren't too many people donating countless millions of dollars to projects that will show very little, if any return on investment...sadly this is how our current social/economic system works...

Aside from that, there are a few other things that come to mind when replying to this post...

#1 Manufacture Wireless Energy...this is an impossibility, and here's why...you cannot stream electricity from one location to another wirelessly because you run a much greater risk of human interaction with potentially lethal amounts of electricity...increased episodes of electrocution...
#2 Transmit Internet to Remote Global Areas...for what purpose specifically? These areas are usually considered remote for a very good reason, and most of the time it has to do with temperature ranges; it's either too hot, or too cold for anyone to consider living there year round...those who do make those areas their full time homes are uninterested in internet or technology; they want to live "off grid," so this doesn't appear to be a very good approach to financial freedom...
#3 Design More Economical Solar Cells and Solar Installation...this again seems to be a great idea, yet it focuses on the wrong technology...solar is only available for specific hours each and every day, and only in regions where the sun shines a significant part of the year, or all year long...they are very ineffective in northern tier regions that live under the cloudy days of winter for 4-6 months of the year...kinetic alternative energy systems such as improved residential sized windmills would probably be a better focus group...wind is available all over the planet in various quantities, both day and night...find a way to capture the lightest breeze and convert that into the greatest amount of energy possible...and you can start stockpiling safes with all your financial freedom...
#4 Create Affordable Water Desalination...this sounds like a great idea; however, it has already been done by several saltwater still manufacturers...you can purchase a fabricated model from quite a few online distributors and most of these personal units are under $500, or if you have your wits about you, you can search through YouTube to find instructive videos...like this one...that demonstrate how to purify saltwater using common household items...
#5 Better Weather Prediction...another practical impossibility...even with all of the current weather tracking equipment they get it wrong quite frequently...take Hurricane Matthew for instance, there was no less than two dozen different tracks it could've taken...they guessed at it each hour; the only way to establish any "accuracy"...then there's also the undeniable fact that several governments are experimenting with weather modification/manipulation...which many people already believe they are capable of...which means this avenue to financial freedom will be full of inescapable potholes and pitfalls...

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