ONE OF MY BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE

If I tried to list the ten best days of my life, no doubt among them would be my birth, a few graduations, marriage, and assorted other great ones, including maybe even travel, where the best could well have been that one day in Venice when I first met my Blue-bar Pigeon, had lunch at Quadri of white truffles and several glasses of wine (this is the dessert, and count the number of glasses), topped off with a special concert of Four Seasons, in the theater where Vivaldi partially composed them.

Well, yesterday featured the TEDx program hosted by Blue Revolution Hawaii, that was beamed to the entire world. Some day the TED organization will again present this effort by adding it to their system package. You can go to the BRH website for other information. Should you wish to watch my presentation, click on THIS. In this 18-minute talk, I only lightly touched on the Pacific International Ocean Station, our proposed $150 million floating structure to initiate at-sea technology transfer activities for the Blue Revolution. Here is an earlier presentation I made to the Seasteading Institute providing details.

Why was yesterday one of the best days of my life? Much of my professional career has been devoted to developing the elements that will someday be consolidated into the Blue Revolution.

I drafted the original legislation in the U.S. Senate more than 40 years ago for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion and Hydrogen.

Co-founded the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research, which succeeded in building a 210 kW open cycle OTEC facility at the Natural Energy of Hawaii Authority in 1992.
Around that time co-presented the first talk on the Blue Revolution with then State Senator Richard Matsuura.

In 2003 gave the Anton Bruun Memorial Lecture to UNESCO in Paris on the Blue Revolution.
Helped establish Blue Revolution Hawaii a decade ago to build the Pacific International Ocean Station (PIOS).

Through this period, we came to a conclusion that no federal agency, nor corporation, had the funds and will to provide $150 million to carry out this mission. More recently, we decided that the right imaginative billionaire seeking a marine legacy for the Humanity and Planet Earth would be the key to initiate the Blue Revolution. It is hoped that this TEDx event yesterday will be the catalyst to tell the world that the Blue Revolution is the ONLY pathway to remediate global warming and retard the formation of hurricanes, while making a profit for investors and providing exciting new future habitats on the open ocean for those seeking a different lifestyle.

Yesterday was even more remarkable for the company I shared watching this event. She prepared an enhanced screwdriver by adding some Midori, Triple Sec and Kapena tequila (which includes a taste of li hing mui). Plus, she prepared nachos. Below are Pat and Luis on the TV telecast, which was shown in a special in-house channel at 15 Craigside:

But that was not all. For dinner we had Popeyes chicken with one of my new Stanford wines:

Without a question, one of my best days ever. And you might ask, who was there with me? Someday she will appear in my blog.

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These a...

OSAKA EXPO: Day One

Well, the day finally came for us to go to the Osaka Expo. We were told ahead of time that the long walks would be fearful, giant lines will need to be tolerated just to get into the Expo, with those ocean breezes, it would really be cold, and so forth. Maybe it was pure luck, but we avoided all the above warnings We had a grand day, and are looking forward to Sunday, our second day at the Expo. So come along for an enjoyable ride. Our hotel is adjacent to the Tennoji Station, a very large one with several lines. We upgraded our Suica card and caught the Misosuji red line towards Umeda. Transferred to the Chuo green line at the Hommachi Station. This Osaka Metro train took us to the Yumeshima Station at the Expo site. It was a very large mob leaving the train and heading to the entrance. Took only a few minutes to get to the entrance. This mob was multiplied by at least a factor of ten of those already waiting to enter. However...

WHY YOU SHOULD CONVERT TO A JAPANESE HIGH TECH TOILET

Did you know that Oktoberfest in Germany is mostly in September? The very first day of Oktoberfest 2021 was supposed to be today, September 18, extending into October 3. Well, as in 2020, Oktoberfest was cancelled. So why is it called by that month when it is held mostly in September? The first celebration in 1810 was in October. Did you also know that Oktoberfest is held only in Munich? These days seven million drink more than a liter ( about three typical cans ) of beer each, costing around $11. Except for my wife and I when we followed the crowd to board the S-Bahn to the fairgrounds near Old Town. It was drizzling a bit. We bought a large pretzel outside of a typical barn where beer is served. We did not know that you needed to get this inside the hall. So no one came to serve us beer. After a while we decided to have lunch, and the restaurant we settled on only served wine. Thus, we might have been the ...

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