The creative destruction lab looks really cool, and I may ask for an introduction, but, I worry that I'm am not really trying to build a business here. I don't see a product or customers in growing forests robotically. It's just a forest. And the robots are to handle the scale, they are doing nothing a low skilled worker couldn't do.
I don't see any real business opportunity outside of selling carbon credits, but there are vastly more profitable ways to use land.
But it's a reliable and feasible solution to climate change nonetheless, and something I could theoretically do with funding. So, hence Kickstarter, a place where businesses don't need to be businesses! :)
Oh, I built a rover named Henry, but I can't quite say that he is a forest planting prototype.
Marketing and sales are the domains I am the worst at, maybe we should chat. Though, while I do foresee a market for carbon, I do not see much in the way for climate solving robots, only return is saving the world ;)
I could definitely improve the KS video and presentation a lot :)
And you are right, a likely good place for me to start, is in logging industry (forestry). Though, I was more hoping to build robots to create and maintain forests, not cut them down at scale more efficiently.
Making robots to hasten climate change may not be the right approach to solving it. Yet, the best customers I could get would be logging, mining or oil.
Well, for each hour of each day, I do need to choose to work on either one thing or another, not both. I hoped to spend the majority of my hours working towards saving our world from climate change. If I get a safety net job, the majority of my hours will be spent getting someone else rich.
Don't get me wrong. This is likely what I will need to do to pay for rent and food. I'm just not happy about it. And saddens me when I see large numbers elsewhere
Coding is just a tool, a means to an end, not a career. If you don't like using a keyboard/multimeter/hammer, don't work in an area that requires a keyboard/multimeter/hammer.
Painting and parenting can both be very rewarding, and make you very happy over a lifetime.
As for money, enough to get by, can be enough. Life doesn't have to be about ways to get money.
If you had prodigious quantities of good soil, you could grow trees and food at sea, where we have lots of space to grow, especially at the equator.
The problem then becomes a floating platform, and controlling it all, but those seem less difficult.