Let
me suggest something very very much "out of left field." The odds on
this working are very very small but if it worked, you would be a
billionaire. Here it is:
1. We all worry about cars using too much gasoline (thereby depleting our oil reserves) and emitting too much CO2 (thereby contributing to climate change). (Okay, not everyone worries about this, just bear with me.)
2. We try to address these challenges by regulating new cars to be more fuel efficient and cleaner.
3. BUT WE NEVER TOUCH EXISTING CARS. Each year in the USA we sell 16-17 million new cars. BUT THERE ARE 250,000,000 ON THE ROAD IN THE USA. We each year address less than 10% of the problem.
(It is like trying to make houses more energy efficient only by improving new houses. And ignoring putting in low-energy-loss windows, more efficient appliances, etc. in existing homes. We would think to ignore existing homes would be idiotic... but we ignore existing cars!)
If someone can come up with a cheap and easy retrofit that improves EXISTING car engine efficiency by only 5%, it would change the world.
And make you rich.
The odds of succeeding in this? Tiny.
But the competition you would have in pursuing this opportunity? Tinier.
IMHO.
We spend 98% of our R&D effort on less than 10% of the problem.
Courtesy : quora.com
1. We all worry about cars using too much gasoline (thereby depleting our oil reserves) and emitting too much CO2 (thereby contributing to climate change). (Okay, not everyone worries about this, just bear with me.)
2. We try to address these challenges by regulating new cars to be more fuel efficient and cleaner.
3. BUT WE NEVER TOUCH EXISTING CARS. Each year in the USA we sell 16-17 million new cars. BUT THERE ARE 250,000,000 ON THE ROAD IN THE USA. We each year address less than 10% of the problem.
(It is like trying to make houses more energy efficient only by improving new houses. And ignoring putting in low-energy-loss windows, more efficient appliances, etc. in existing homes. We would think to ignore existing homes would be idiotic... but we ignore existing cars!)
If someone can come up with a cheap and easy retrofit that improves EXISTING car engine efficiency by only 5%, it would change the world.
And make you rich.
The odds of succeeding in this? Tiny.
But the competition you would have in pursuing this opportunity? Tinier.
IMHO.
We spend 98% of our R&D effort on less than 10% of the problem.
Courtesy : quora.com
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