There are two major ways that people do large expensive projects: private sector or the government. The number of public companies has been shrinking. New companies with promising futures are quickly bought out. Gold is up, real estate is up, there is too much money that wants to be invested and not enough opportunities to invest. The market has too much money not enough ideas. And not enough of these private sector operations will build infrastructure or really get anything productive done.
If you like kitchen gadgets, I hope that you like eggs. What is it about eggs that makes them the target of the most specific contraptions?