Important Proposal Tips

If you're about to write a proposal for funding from the Feds or elsewhere, it is absolutely essential that you get the buzzwords and background right, particularly if you're writing a scientific or technical proposal. No proposal is complete without the following buzzwords:

• nanotube
• real time
• power scavenging
• condition-based
  

Make sure you don't dispel any wild ideas or misconceptions in the proposal topic either. For example, your reviewers don't want to hear that what they're asking for violates the laws of thermodynamics, they just want to hear how you're going to break the law and get away with it. Or how you'll use power scavenging to power your device inside an airtight, cold, pitch black silo. Suggest that you'll use an Entropy Gathering Engine to power your device, and you're off and running.

But the second someone comes back and says, "Brilliant idea! Just think of all the entropy that goes to waste every year!" you need to run away from them very quickly. :)