That's a good advice Fluxkom gives here. This would be another idea of using ones potential for generating ideas. Besides the corporate world there exists a huge network for counseling and promoting institutions and though I dont know how its done in America, many of them are organized by the state; so if you work for them, you'll get paied by the state too.
I am working for the department of economical growth in my hometown. The job will be no lifetime job for me, cause I cant really do much technical things what is my big love and the thing I like to do. What's great tho is that my hometown is the leading town in Germany when it comes to the founding of new enterprises. The department I work for organizes challenges in which people can hand in business plans for their ideas and the best 10 get a chance every year with some money from the town to realize their ideas. It's a pretty intresting job cause I get to know alot of real world ideas and enterprises and I can in that regard widen my horizon and get to know about what people really do in the real world.
I have to admit, I am very cautious with ideas that are on a grand scale, cause I learnt much about the darkside of business and especially if you one time get the chance to talk to an economics student, you'll learn that to just have an idea for a thing that's missing on a market, it will not be enough. Cause there will be competitors too, who will not as easily let you steal customers from them and worst of all there are lobbies that bounded together to keep up their intrests, as in to keep their customers paying for their products.
Here's a little example: the combustion engine is presently run by oil, which will as a ressource run out in a couple of years. Automotive industry now starts to research electric cars to compensate for that loss. Electric cars tho need electric power and that has in an electric car a very low efficiency when it comes to the production cost / effective miles you can drive divide.
So a common normal diezel engine can be reduced in size so much that its cheaper to be fueled with diezel than an electric car. VW for example already built a 3 cylinder engine that does 1 liter / 100 km what is ~24 miles per gallon. So when you think about driving an electric car, you have to think to about where the elctric energy comes from. This has to be produced in nuclear power plants to meet the increasing demand or in combined-cycle power plants that will use oil again for production.
But now comes the real kicker: noone ever has talked about the hydrogene engine yet. Fact is hydrogene has when used in combustion around half of the energy density of oil, which means the engine must be of double size to have the same power like before. And hydrogene can be used instantly with any engine on the world, except for one thing: it needs no oil. Oil and hydrogene react abrasive and attack steel, so before using it in your car, you'll need to get out the oil of the car and isolate the cylinders with a ceramic spray layer what would suffice to guarantee a strong enough lubrication.
So basically that's just a small change of your car setup, easily done in any garage and for that you can have a hydrogene fueled engine.
So where to get the hydrogene from ?
In South America someone had the idea to use the electric energy produced by windmills, to be induced into water to have an electrolytic reaction. The product of this is hydrogene and oxygene.
Steel industry is one huge industry and it needs like billions of tons of oxygene per year to produce their product. So you already would have a customer for your oxygene. And the hydrogene of course goes in fueling cars.
If you think about this idea rationally and economically it's flawless and could provide the fuel of the future. But noone ever really put much reasearch into it. BMW once built a 12-cylinder hydrogene engine and it runs smoothly but never went into mass production with it.
You see, I dont get it. There must be automotive lobbies behind, who dont want to admit their idea to build the electric car sucks. It's maybe so they dont loose their position as experts and with that their market, that they nip new ideas in the bud.
Alone the 24 mpg diezel engine is far better than any electric car will ever be and its just irresponsible to ignore that.
I dont know, I know that electric power will be far in the future be our primarily fuel for anything. But before we get there a lot of research needs to be done, especially in the field of quantum physics to discover the real potential of electric current. So with that said at the moment electric cars just aint ther solution.
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Well that was a load lol
. I basically wanted to say what Fluxkom said. Think if you maybe can get a job on a brainstorming team or a counselling team too. It's really fun work and paied good and if you get to now the immediate corporate world from the inside a bit more, you will find an alcove too very soon, to put yourself with an idea into and to actually actively do something with it.
Regarding your idea on electronics: if you need technical advice on that send me a PM. Can help you with all things related to electronical / mechanical engineering, aswell as computer science.
