Business Ideas - Topic of the day (15-07-14)

The only source to earn more money in less time is nothing but with a good business model. So What to do and what are the options available?

Options:

1. Setting up a new business unit

2. Hiring an existing industry on lease

3. Looking for an existing industry for sale

4. Browse on internet for any ideas

5. Next future market - Scrap Handling

6. Handling biological matter in collaboration with a municipality.

1. Setting up a new business unit:

This needs a lot of effort in the initial stages and is to be well planned. More time is required with huge man hours. This is a risk based option where in the feasibility, market conditions etc plays a major role.

2. Hiring an existing industry on lease

This is a good option. The only requirement is an investment and an initial market study. Pay the company, hire it, explore market for rigorous demand and start producing the product at peak capacity. Make Profit and pay the owner. But the margin in this is less as some part of the profits are being paid against the lease.

3. Looking for an existing industry for sale

Found one -  http://www.cencorefining.org/ which says that "CENCO Refining Company is located in Santa Fe Springs, California, near Los Angeles.  The 50,000 barrel per day refinery has been sold.  However, some units and equipment that are not part of the sale remain available." Buy some equipment which may suit to set up an establishment of your interest at a relatively less price and reduce the initial investment. 

4. Browse on internet for any ideas

Lot of projects and business ideas are not put into use because of lack of funds, time and technology. Select a project or a business idea and work on it

5. Next future market - Scrap Handling

There is a great future for scrap handling. Currently the goods being manufactured have less life time. This is one of the greatest marketing strategy implemented jointly by all the industries. Even though a product can be designed for a more life time, it is designed for a lesser time in-order to enhance the year-on-year sales of the company. Because of this strategy, the life time of the products has come down and there is a lot and lot of scrap being generated. This scrap has a real competitive price in the market. The main scrap being the e-waste generated from the silicon cities all across the world has a huge potential. Even though this industry has an add-on advantage of government subsidies, wherein the government will provide enough benefits for clearing the scrap and reusing the material further.

6. Handling biological matter in collaboration with a municipality.

Municipalities all across the world are currently facing the problem of handling biological matter that is being generated on day to day basis. There is enough technological growth in this area wherein the matter is treated with a bacteria to convert it into useful energy and also to compress its size by increasing the energy density. This reduction in space can be used for further storing of the matter as well in transforming the matter into energy rich. The government also provide subsidies in this area, as this is a part of society development.

Another form of sea water

What if we create an another form of sea water in solid shape which can act as a land for many living beings who are thirsty enough for some piece of land.

One form of sea water in solid shape is the Ice Burgs, however they change with temperature and are not suitable for habitants.

Oceans are rich in salts and minerals. These salts and minerals are in dissolved state in the sea water and when extracted they will form a solid shape at ambient temperature. Whether the extraction of this salt content from the sea water will reduce the level of water to such an extent ?

Does these salts really required for the aquatic life ?

Is it possible to extract the underwater sand and build an island or extend the existing land surface of a country or bring back the already submerged islands by refilling similar to the one UAE is building but in large extent?

Can we cool a part of sea water and create the glaciers again?

Shuttling excess water from Earth.

Complying with the crazy ideas generated while encountering day to day engineering shortcomings by us this particular idea should be given some serious thought as it might just be, the solution to the problem of rising sea level engulfing our landmasses as a result of global warming.

Don't ask me, how a lunch time discussion on death and different ways of administering capital punishment deviated into solving the greatest environmental threat we face, because that happens all the time in the porta cabin. So this is how it goes....

A question arose, "Can we not dump all the excess water from the melting ice cap into space." Immediately, someone  interjected by saying, "Can you imagine the number of trips required and the cost involved?" 

Having read about the recent PSLV-C23 launch from India, and the info-graphic depicting its trajectory outside the atmosphere was floating in the sub conscious somewhere. It was a Eureka moment as that very picture in this context conjured up this theory:

What you need:

1. A tube from the bottom of the ocean to a suitable satellite orbit
2. A plunger which sits flush inside this tube 
3. A rocket capable of accelerating the plunger to escape velocity for the length of the tube

 

What you need to do:

1. Build the tube
2. Insert the plunger into the tube
3. Connect the rocket to the plunger
4. Fire the rocket.

What will happen:

The plunger while accelerating will create a suction in the trailing part pulling the water along the length of the tube setting up a nice siphon which will put the water from the depths of the ocean into a nice and neat orbit around the earth. 

We could even have our own planetary ring as a result of this. err.. which would have some fish floating around in that ring which, if I was fish, I would not be very happy about, but we could put a strainer to filter them out at the bottom of the tube.

Do remember to believe that this could be the only way to curb the rising sea level, which if left to rise could see us all running for the mountains pretty soon. It is thus thought, that we are going to make it happen at any cost.

Since this is going to bring a lot of 'how are you going to...' questions, I want to list out a few immediate flaws with this idea.

1. Sub Zero temperatures in the higher layers of the atmosphere will freeze the water flowing in the pipes. 
•  A valid argument. I thank the buzzkill for irking my thought further. insulating the pipe with heat tracing, would be an utter waste of resources. And since I am living in the future, I'm thinking of geosynchronous satellites with solar concentrators, directing the solar radiation from the sun onto the affected area of the tube to eliminate icing.
  
2.  We need the exhaust of the rocket pushing against something for this to work. It cannot push against the water that it is supposed to pull along.
• Well, that is true. But then, we can have the rocket outside the tube holding the plunger through some magnetic magic. Which surely is possible since, as of today, we are able to guide invisible particles form the innards of atoms through accelerators built underground and across national borders, as per will.
  
3.  Construction of this contraption.
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While I do have some ideas, I am willing to listen to yours' first. So let's bring it on guys.

Get cracking or debunking.