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Check out this article on the science behind crowdfunding: http://www.futurity.org/100-crowdfunding-phrases-predict-pay/

Also is anyone looking at ARPA-E? 20 Grants made available for energy research studies up to $500,000.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/01/arpa-e-makes-available-20-grants-of-up.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/advancednano+nextbigfuture

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There is some discussion about the ARPA-E grants on NextBigFuture:

ARPA-E makes available 20 grants of up to $500,000 for Low Energy Nuclear reactions AKA Cold fusion

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Ivy Matt wrote: Does it usually take Google three weeks or more to post their Solve for X videos?

The Solve For X videos are all hosted on Youtube. Some of the videos on the Solve For X website are actually pointing to the youtube account of whatever group gave that particular talk and the accounts are managed by those groups. The videos that are directly managed by Solve For X are all on this youtube account: https://www.youtube.com/user/wesolveforx

The majority of the videos on the wesolveforx account were made public in early February and no new videos have been made public in over two months. It might be that a very small team that is managing that website.

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A few sites that have well-educated readers are nextbigfuture.com and phys.org. You could probably get an interview on nextbigfuture if you contact Brian Wang at blwang at gmail dot com

Phys.org has an idea submission form to have your research printed on their website. The form is here: http://phys.org/help/suggest/

You can also submit clean energy ideas at climatecolab.org. You would submit a proposal on their website and the proposals are then voted on. The finalists will be invited to a conference at MIT in November where they will be able to present their ideas to policymakers, business executives, investors, officials at non-profits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and citizen groups. – http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/about

IAmAs are a great way of generating publicity and past IAmAs have been done by notable scientists such as Dr. John Mather, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye and the Curiosity Rover science team.
Information on how to do an IAmA can be found at: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/wiki/index

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mchargue wrote: KickStarter requires that you produce a ‘deliverable’ – which is to say a product that you can send as an premium to backers.

I see. The group I was looking at on Kickstarter was giving out stickers and T-shirts to their backers. I did find a list of crowd funding services here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_crowd_funding_services

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Does Focus Fusion intend to try crowd-sourcing again? I’ve seen Kickstarter successfully fund other plasma experiments such as this one.

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