I've been interested in this topic for a good while now and though I'm new to this forum I have been following the research on and off for some years. I see that a lot of people are interested enough in this to spend their time and energy on creating a solution but there is a major downside to this and that is many people are discovering the same failures in multitudes instead of singularly as would be the case in a more regimented study. I know a lot of this is the thrill of doing the research on your own but IDK if any one person is going to solve this unless they have a serious amount of time, experience and possibly money and or luck. SO my solution is as follows:
Create an organized research effort, much like the open-source software development (Linux OS), that will state the goals, efforts, method etc of the research and have assigned experiments to individuals with either the equipment or access to the equipment to do so. In addition, there may be some procedures and tests which are out of the range of the garage experimenter so these could be passed off to an assigned research group who can undertake the effort - this may need to be funded in some part by donations, advertising, future working product, plans, etc.
I don't know if anyone else here is familiar with the open source software movement but it has been a great success in creating one of the best, if not the best, operating system and software (in terms of stability and performance, not "popularity", available).
As research is done it will be published for peer review in both text and and video. Suggestions can be made, ideas review and refined and experiments carried out in the most efficient manner.
If this is done correctly I would think that it would be more than plausible for University and College students to work with us giving a MUCH needed boost to the development effort. With the availability to testing equipment and production facilities of the larger universities I would think that some would find this project worthy of joining and undertaking.
What do you all think of this?