[spankalib]

I’ve always wondered how to build Buckminster Fuller’s ‘Cloud Nine’ spheres...

[glorgau]

1. WiTricity

[DManA]

Fact is the pioneers are usually not the folks that cash in.

[Paul46360]

Gots one better...make it so grass grows like weeds do.

[DManA]

7. Cheap Desalination

I keep reading stories for the past 10 years, every six months or so that this one has been solved.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Bump for later.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Wireless Power

Didn’t Tesla do that?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Isn’t the answer obvious? Just create another government program.

[Mach9]

No gold ring for someone who solves healthcare problems? Surely there’s some combination of actuary/lawyer/medical doctor/CONSERVATIVE! who can come up with an ethical, efficacious system!

[MHGinTN]

Faulty assumption built into the title. The globalist oligarchs are not going to let ANY energy developments take hold which would make fossil fuels an 'also ran'. So, any item in the list which would do that is automatically a faulty assumption.

For example: desalinization can be done very efficiently using Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, and that energy production method would be far safer and cheaper in the long run than the current nuclear energy systems. [BUT, it would not generate the isotopes in quantity desired by the weapons industries.]

Another perspective is the energy production and utilization processes for the UFOs now flying our skys. Those are not running on gas, and our black-projects technology are making working editions of these crft.

[not2be4gotten.com]

Thigh cream.

[GraceG]

Rural Internet

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Solved,...

Just need to re-program the wrt54g with some better software to handle gridded internet...

Just deploy these units every section or so inthe country to help link up hotspots...

[Vinnie]

Develop a red gardenia.

Fastest way to riches...become a politician.

[Responsibility2nd]

These two are the most important, the most critical. Energy and Water.

3. Cheap, Scalable Solar
7. Cheap Desalination

[BitWielder1]

Wireless Power - Tesla had a solution for that but the powers that be could not find a way to charge for it.
Rural, Remote Internet - Isn't that what 3G, 4G etc. is supposed to do?
Clean Coal - Coal is pretty clean if you don't count CO2 as a pollutant. And you shouldn't. As for Mercury and other bad output, there are techniques to remedy those.
Super-Low-Cost International Payments - The tech already exists, it's a regulatory problem now.
Cheap Desalination - I've been reading about this for years. A floating device using wave power and reverse osmosis filters was clamored to do it practically for free.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

A man named Jesus took care of #10 about 2000 years ago.

[winodog]

11) Build that flying car we have been expecting since the 50,s

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

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.

[Flame Retardant]

Wired has said 2012 was the year passwords broke. Hackers have, through brute force, so far been able to break through practically every firewall ever invented.

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).

[Organic Panic]

And to top them all... The political will to allow any of these things. The feds will stop ANY of this until they get their cut.