OverUnity prize money 15825 US$ total until now

[ring_theory]

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[hartiberlin]

Okay, now we have 7390 members over here.

If everyone is willing to donate 1 US$ per month for this project,
we would get every month maybe 5000 to 7000 US$ ( if not everybody donates)

This money could be donated via some kind of
poll decision to the most promised projects
and the experimentators, which will get the money
must publish all their results from their work with the money.

The question is, how many members would be willing
to pay each month this 1 US$ fee ?

Otherwise I could setup a membership site , so
only the people which pay money could read the newest test
results and the experimentators who publish their
test results into the member only area, would get
money for their published work from the membership fees.
This would be then simular to a subscription to
a newsmagazine, where the newsmagazine boss
pays the article writers a compensation money for their
article writing work.

The problem I see here, that many members over here
are poor students or poor inventors , that can not afford to pay a monthly
subscription fee and that they want to try to hack the site
to have a free reading of the membership contens
or they just download the membership contens and publish
it elsewhere for free...

So what do you think would really work to support
the inventors the best way and give them some money
for their research ?

Regards, Stefan.

[IronHead]

Just put a donation link up and let it run its cource.
Or like most everything else we can just talk about dong it over and over  for the next 6 months. Just do it  , just build it.

[hartiberlin]

Another solution could be, which I am already working on here,
is , that I am doing a much bigger site with lots of portal sites and news pages
about the topic "alternative energy" and "energy usage" in common
and have these more common Internet portal pages with lots of advertisement
and get lots more traditional Internet traffic to them , so the advertisement income will be multiplied and
then I could donate to several projects also some money and not just
increase the OverUnity Prize money....?!

But I have to decide now, if I do this Internet setup work or should
I rather work to do myself some new experiments, which I also want to do...
so it is a hard decision what to do... Make more money to support the community
or rather do myself more experiments to maybe earn the OverUnity Prize myself
The day has only got 24 hours so far.... 

[Dingus Mungus]

Perhaps you can use excess monthly funds to assist longtime members and serious proven builders to
aquire expensive components for new projects. Just order the parts for them and drop ship the parts
to them. That way its not "free money" getting handed out and only people you know will build it will
get parts. That will further encourage the members/content providers to remain loyal to this site.

Just an idea,
~Dingus Mungus

P.S. The other option is to let it pile up and when we do find "the answer", by then you
should have the money to fund at least 20 simultaneous replications all over the world!
Just imagine 20 identical functioning: TPU's, or Newman motors, or whatever...
All sponsored and built by overunity.com, the site would really get busy then!