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Original E Business Worth Further Investigation
The online wire less delivery of electricity  in other words a wire less smart grid, is one of the most profitable new e-businesses we believe worth investigating, if not pursuing as a startup investment (either as a sole investor or a lead investor) for several reasons.

First, we obviously have access to the credit, debt and equity we need.  Second, the nations need for electricity, is growing exponentially, as is the global need.  This means of transmitting and selling it not only allows us to participate in global sales of clean, carbon free electricity, but the global carbon auctions, thereby automatically generating two income streams immediately.  We have done enough research, as we explain below, to minimize regulatory interference and paperwork, where it will be required, can retain Washington D.C and local counsel and lobbyists who can essentially guarantee at least some federal and state funding as well, and of course expedite permitting from the agencies where necessary, so those issues will not be of major concern.

We will have first mover advantage in this space.  We have picked our first state as a pilot very carefully to both give us the advantage of the business climate, existing federal funding, the existence of CU Boulder (and of course Boulder itself, the first city in the country where a wire line smart grid in the United States has just been built), plus other advantages the area offers to create a pilot that will not only compete but differentiate ourselves, and thus will enable us to go national if not international, especially given the grants the area has already received for EXPORTS, particularly of cleantech and high tech product.

In addition, the benefits to existing businesses and even individuals are tremendous, not just in these services but in the tax breaks we can offer them, but the additional revenue streams we have identified and discuss in the report below for us, if we further split the network, essentially creating a wireless VPN and ISP, further garnering income from wire less e-commerce business, which is, as we again discuss below, expected to hit somewhere north of 23 Billion by 2015.  With that, we wrap up our introductory question and reason for inquiry into the subject in the first place and begin our report on the issue at hand, its feasibility as a business, and the other requirements you asked to report on.

Summary
The wire less delivery of clean electricity offers incredibly profitable ecommerce returns because there is such a need for it in addition to enabling said company to generate additional revenue streams via splitting the network, to provide traditional wireless data and video broadband services.

Brief Overview of Plan
The plan is to take existing studies, plus the one smart grid in Boulder Colorado, as well as applications used in other countries, (both Telco and electricity models will be used) to create a model as a starting point to show how provision of said services at cheaper rates is not only feasible, but can provide additional upsides.

Our model is based on proven concepts in e-commerce, electrical engineering, WAN and VPN proven technology and the regulatory environment in the U.S. and globally.  Furthermore, we can implement most of this without policy changes.  Where some might be necessary, our research is already prepared to influence policy makers where necessary, if for no other reason than our plan is to provide a cheap but much needed commodity in a world reeling from debt and forced to deal with climate change, and high levels of joblessness.

Overview
The niche we have identified is absolutely profitable and yet to be exploited.  Despite Googles installation of the first smart grid in Boulder using wire line broadband, combined with their recent authorization to sell electricity from FERC, and their undeniable monopoly of the browser space, a company willing to take on the powers that be to deliver carbon free, environmentally friendly, cheap, electricity via broadband WIRE LESS networks, plus value added services is guaranteed to be profitable, differentiate itself and have guaranteed market entry.

TechnologyCompany Infrastructure
Our technology has been proven  but has not been implemented commercially yet in the United States - from Marconis and Teslas early experiments to the first experiment at Ball State to models being used in both the First AND the Third World.  In addition, in a digital environment, the technology is the same  pushing ANYTHING through a pipe  whether it be land line or virtual (i.e. a VPN), depends on infrastructure that is identical.  To wit in an IP universe of cyberspace, data is sent in bursts, video and voice must be sent via pipes big and fast enough to ensure that no jerky interruptions of packet transmission creates breakups in voice calls or digital views of video.  Electricity is just the same, its just more like data.

Furthermore, since such networks, whether wire line or wire less, can be literally split as any Telco provider can affirm, (the simplest example is that they provide services to more than one customer on a T-1 line) one is suddenly left with the proposition of a company that can create an automatic e-commerce company that sells both cheap electricity, avoiding cumbersome regulations (further discussion below) AND become a cheaply and easily scalable ISP for other customers who can both use said electricity in various ways, to power their own e-commerce businesses via the SAME network.

Proposal
We already know we are extremely competitive.  The first smart grid was just built in Boulder using wire line rather than wire less technology.

Not only is this approach idiotic if one studies what the Telcos are doing, but the issue of both EIS studies and their manipulation, not to mention the agencies shameful misuse of the public land under their trust, is probably an issue here. Information can be found in the Bibliography on the only two documentaries that have ever been done on the subject and aired on PBS in 1994 (Air Wars and A New Range War  The Pentagon and Public Land.)

Schematic
The following is a very rough overview of what a wire less network would look like.  The amount of revenue we anticipate, purely through electricity sales and ecommerce alone (which are expected to reach 23 Billion plus by 2015 just through wireless mobile apps ALONE) is more than enough to justify more research.
                           
Although the U.S. market for distributed generation is substantial, perhaps the greatest potential is with the worlds 3 billion poor people who have no reliable access to electricity. On-site generators, as noted before, can save the 1,500 per kilowatt that developing countries would be required to spend on transmission lines. They could allow those nations to leapfrog the power grid, eliminating the need to build an expensive system based on giant generators and high-voltage wires, much the way that some countries are using cell phone technology to leapfrog the need to string expensive telephone landlines.

This is how it would look in the United States for an established business, for example one that is seasonal and needed income year round, and also needed to save on phenomenal electricity costs during the period it is in operation.
                           
This is what a model would look like if we could also provide the SAME SERVICES to the individual consumer, in conjunction with both legislative policy changes and a special product we would design, that would allow the consumer to both sell additional electricity from THEIR energy positive home back to the grid, but also participate via an online tool, in the carbon auctions.
                         
Benefits
Easier to Implement
Easier and cheaper to scale than traditional models
Smaller decentralized grids that tie into a national network are immune from cyber attack andor outages
Provide market entry and a competitive marketplace to smaller players
Provide incentives to economic growth
Provide incentives to start small business
Jump start the paradigm shift to a cleantech, environmentally conscious information economy with high wages that cannot be outsourced
Increase still falling home value
Provide passive income to consumers and businesses
Create incentives for both businesses and workers in creating more opportunities for teleworkers in the form of tax breaks
Allow consumers to create passive income in the face of a still horrific job market and foreclosure scenario by increasing home value, eliminating major utility costs, creating their own businesses and participating in the carbon auctions, which is currently not allowed under the Markey legislation.

Risks
Wire less switches are more complicated
FERC authorization will have to be obtained
Finding and retaining properly trained personnel (who will all be a virtual workforce to begin with) may be difficult to find and expensive to retain.

The idea of allowing consumers and municipalities to participate in the carbon auctions, while a relatively simple software program to design, would have to pass Congress.  As it is, only large corporate entities and utilities are allowed to do this.  This would require legislative change.  It may be that this could be done on a state by state level.

Airspace  As the military controls the majority of airspace in the United States, this may also be an issue that may have to be addressed at the Congressional andor Executive Branch level.  However, airspace is public property and thus it should not fall under military control.  We have included a very useful handbook that will be useful in such arguments, as well as those that preserve privacy and specifically combat FISA in the bibliography to support our claims and arguments.