I've seen a repeated posting with fantastical ideas about aether and parallel universes. Now really, come on!
Whether it is private or public money you need to have projects with clear objectives backed up with some testable theory or suppositions. The way they work these things is bit by bit they give you the funding on reaching clear milestones. I once watched and warned an investor about a perpetual motion machine which was flawed. The guy was passing himself off as a professor even though he'd left the institution that awarded it. He did no work, never attended meetings and produced no workings or very, very poor quality material. The investor was very patient and in reality, philanthropic. We've got to separate the wheat from the chaff unless another bubble will occur in new energy.
