I've long been the primary cheerleader for Hawaii being the world lead in the development of the   Blue Revolution .  Watch my  TEDx talk  of about a year ago.  But this effort "only" began a little more than three decades ago. My initial crusade, going way back into the 1970s, was hydrogen.  This inspiration came from my assignments at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory working on laser fusion.  After all, hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe ( 73% ), through fusion of hydrogen every star generates all the energy we notice in space, and combusted with oxygen from the atmosphere, the products are energy and water.   All fusion processes use isotopes of hydrogen. I mean, if any superior intelligence out there is trying to send us a message, this has to be it.   When I found myself in 1979 working for U.S. Senator Spark Matsunaga, my top agenda item was to somehow find a way to promote the hydrogen option.  Well, Lockheed just happened to succeed wi

First, from the   Sunday New York Times :  The Sunday Question:  How long will McCarthy last as speaker?  McCarthy's concession to win the job made it easier for hard-right lawmakers   to oust him,   so his tenure could be short.  But Democrats looking to cut deals with McCarthy could  supply votes to save him   if conservatives revolt. Also, tomorrow night, TCU vs Georgia for the NCAA football championship, and on Tuesday, the release of Prince Harry's memoir,  Spare . I yesterday watched on my local PBS channel,  First Contact:  An Alien Encounter , a British program dramatizing what would happen if we encountered an incoming alien signal and/or artifact.  While this  Guardian  review  did not take the effort too seriously, I did agree that it was mostly boring.  Yet, triggered was my posting of today on this subject, and the subject of the day...imagination.  Oh, here is a  list of 655 films featuring extraterrestrials , so my wild dabblings are sometimes popular. Sunday is

On Tuesdays I usually reach back into the past and repeat an early posting of importance, but today there will be two.  Let me start with  World Oceans Day , which is celebrated this month.  The concept was first proposed 30 years ago, around the time the concept of the  Blue Revolution  began to develop.  These international events about our seas almost always are devoted to "saving" our oceans, certainly not wisely utilizing them for the benefit of humanity. I've been in academia now for half a century.  Research funding is scarce for ocean resource development.  The National Science Foundation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration focus their support just about only for science, not engineering, and more specifically to monitor and protect our seas.  The Department of Energy is more applications than pure science.  However, in the 1980's the UDOE hated ocean thermal energy conversion ( OTEC ).  Read my  14 August2008  posting.   BLUE REVOLUTION (Part

  From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9    1093     4732       1185        246       82 July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120      572 Aug    12     1504     6556        1242       835      130 Sept     9     1208      6222       1136      1168       82 Oct     21     1225      6849         571       703       85 Nov    25     2304    12025        620       518      118 Dec     30     3880    14748       1224       299     465 Jan      14       4142    15512        1151        189      712                  Feb      3       4005   14265       1209       107     398 Mar     2        1989     9490        1726       110      194             9        1704      8970        1954       113     103           10        1610    10018        2349       134     109           16        1248      9830        2798       187     139 Summary: Looking good only for the USA. When I first started at