In 2007 the Ocean Energy Council, at their annual conference, bestowed on me their Ocean Energy Pioneer award.  Tomorrow, I will go into detail on why.  Today, I pass on the baton to a longtime colleague who does much more than pontificate and dream. Neil Sims sent me an e-mail with information about his latest ocean initiative.  I first knew about him as an innovator in growing pearl oysters. More than three decades ago I joined a former Hawaii governor and then dean of engineering at the University of Hawaii to start a pearl culture company at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii.  You can read the details of how I went all the way to Australia to recruit this world authority on the subject, Neil Sims, and as importantly, his wife Kate.  Over a Wolf Blass Black, I convinced them to join the effort in Hawaii.  I recently checked, and this wine now costs $68.  The Platinum is double that.  In his communication, he indicated that the next time we got together, the Wolf Blass treat,