There was a guy on Dragon's Den (CBC) a few weeks ago who was pitching his tabletop black box that multiplied the capacity of a little battery into killowatt-hours of steady power. I laughed and laughed while he gave his spiel, but he actually got one of the dragons to agree to fund him for something like $200K (after doing some due diligence). I couldn't believe it! And this was no polished salesman, no sir, just a classic nerd who just escaped from the basement and forgot to tuck in his wrinkled shirt. Seems like its pretty easy to get free money for this kind of thing.