About Taipei, we did not do a tour because we were on this ship six years ago, and I will today get into what we saw in 2019, plus bring you up to date on what is happening today. I thus start with some nostalgia, as  on 4December2019 I posted on our Diamond Princess stop in Taipei . To begin, I went back to a 20November2008 posting reporting on a project I had in 1988 working with the Taiwanese government. One final anecdote is that  PICHTR , exactly 20 years ago, worked with  ITRI  to produce an $80 million multiple product  OTEC  study for Taiwan, led by Paul Yuen and my engineering team (same group as mentioned above). In our small way, then, we like to think we stimulated some interest in what could someday be the most important renewable energy resource for Hawaii and World. Maybe The  Blue Revolution  (see Chapter 4 of  SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth)  has  finally started. Plus, I made visits to their second largest city,...

I did say I would post part 2 of my Democracy series today, but I haven't quite perfected a better future for   Mayday Mayday , so this will come later in the week.  Instead, as this is nostalgia Tuesday, I will reach back and specifically look at the eighth ash drop for Pearl at the Taj Mahal.  However, first, a few of the latest developments imposed on the world by President Donald Trump. Trump had a press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, the first world leader to do so.  Shockingly, Trump indicated that the USA will take over the Gaza Strip.   Watch this video .  Previously, he took credit for brokering this peace, but new American boots on the ground in the Middle East is almost beyond the pale. China is the only country currently struck with Trump's tariff, 10%, and announced a counter tariff. Remember my travels to China and how this blog site had problems because of the ongoing  fuss with Google , which began in 2...