Anyone want to get a Kickstarter campaign started for a new lithium ion battery with much higher capacity? It's an 18650 battery that has...wait for it...6000mAh. I've been kicking around names. What do you think of "Ultrafire"?
Some fishy or almost clear scams on Kickstarter or Indigogo that seems to be get funded or extra-funded.
On other forums has been talked about funded projects that went to nothing and plausible explanations have been given why they cannot be fulfilled, even if theoretically you pay for a project that is supposed to be tested and thought out from the beginning, so later excuses don't make sense since you need to have have a working device.
There's some humongous projects like the glass road with LEDs in it, which caused great controversy, successfully funded with $2.2M USD, overfunded from the $1M USD goal.
That one was a bit different since funding only paid for development, and $2.2M is a drop in the bucket for that. It's annoying that the funding page didn't make that obvious though, so lots of people kept pointing out how current tech doesn't allow this to be feasible at this point.
There are different crowd funding platforms, some which can be used only to pay to help someone complete something without the funders getting anything, and some like Kickstarter where the funder is supposed to get some type of reward if the project is successful.
They're all pretty easy to scam, but I suppose it's not really a scam if you work within the system, like this guy did to make $55K to make potato salad.
No I haven't. Did they cover current tech or what it might be as it continues to be developed using ever more efficient solar panels? I only skimmed through the video. I was trying to say that evaluating it based on current technology is pointless. Of course it's not feasible. The same thing could have been said with any land based solar system until now, and most solar systems still aren't cheaper than traditional power sources. Thankfully wiser minds continued developing it instead of giving up because it wasn't feasible at the time.