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.

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.... 

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!

Excellent idea, For 15 years i hung-out with a scientist with more brains than resources. He told me about a water injection system that can make an engine put out some power. I was not told exactly how to build it, he was stubborn!
I've gained an easy 10% more power with no fancy metering, or added negative ions.

I have Newman's plans read it over and over and between the lines there's other things going on in the motor than just oscillating batteries and transmutation. I'm dead serious on building it. I have the time. But I need more resources.

mark

I'm a 2-week lurker... this is my 1st post. So to begin: my kudos to Stefan and the entire O/U community; this is a terrific forum and the prize is definitely a nice & fun little touch.

Earlier in this thread some of you were discussing the implications of this prize as a safeguard to open-source and a deterrent to patenting. I got thinking that whoever does claim the prize will owe much of their success to the community, as we work and contribute together to achieve this common goal.

Perhaps it would benefit this community to consider paying for patents on the winning design, but with a condition that the owner/claimant of the design be this forum, or a cooperative, or some similar variant that would protect said design from being commandeered by an energy corp. In this way, you would effectively be using the free enterprise/capitalist system against itself.

It's just a thought. I'm neither a lawyer nor a seasoned inventor... but like most of us, I am a creative thinker and I try to learn from the trials and tribulations of others. 

What brought me here: A few years ago, a friend of mine designed a fix for a piece of specialty farm equipment and began producing these things at near-to-cost out of his shop for local farmers. An Ag-corp heard about it and called my friend asking to view his design, to which he readily agreed. The Ag-Corp rushed down to the patent office and...well, I'm sure you can finish this story on your own. :P

My intention is not to implore or cajole you, Stefan, or anyone else in any way; I hope to initiate discussion and elicit feedback if there's interest.

Cheers! Mark.

No one can stop us all, and we'll give it all away for free!
~Dingus Mungus

Amen Brother!
Amen!!!

I guess we should do it this way:
The OverUnity Prize applier posts a new thread in this forum at:
http://www.overunity.com/index.php/board,77.0.html
were he will publish
all his infos about his device and then he will send me the 3 units
and I will send one to Sterlin D. Allan from freeenergynews.com
and one to Rich Weber from (gn0sis.com forum).

Also if you wish you could just send me one unit only and arrange with the other 2 guys to ship
it directly to them from your place for review.

First publishing it and thus releasing it to be public domain and open source it,
makes sure, nobody else can claim it as his own inventionand nobody can patent it.
So you are safe with this procedure, that everyboy knows, you are the inventor.

Then when I have tested the one unit for about long enough,
maybe I could already see it after a few days ( not 3 months as the test period announced),
and the other 2 units will also be positively tested,
then you will be announced as the winner of the OverUnity Prize via
a reply to your thread in my forum and the money will be transfered to your bank account and
we will make a worldwide presentation via the Internet.

Hope you all agree to this schedule ?

Many thanks,

Regards, Stefan.

sorry but that will never work, peoples will not do 3 devices at their own cost for 3k, peoples will do it for 30k, you get so much trouble for 3k

i think the best way is the peoples of the forum try to reproduce it and when let say 3-5 peoples are able to reproduce it (peoples that want to do it and peoples we trust)

even 10k is small for getting all this trouble unless the device cost nothing to produce

its my opinion.