Yesterday, I featured the West Kowloon Cultural District as the future of Hong Kong.   Here is a video with details. Breakfast was at the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, of a bowl of noodles, with orange juice and cappuccino. Had a nap.  Went to dinner in our Club Lounge.  From twilight to night.  Note that there is air pollution in Hong Kong .  Quite serious, as caused by industry and vehicles.  There are also 7.6 million people here on space much smaller than the island of Oahu, Hawaii.  Never seemed to go away during the day. That spherical gold structure is the Golden Egg, or Charles K. Kao Auditorium, locatd in the Hong Kong Science Park. First course, two soups, plus seared tuna soba.  Springbank single malt scotch.  Costs around $250/bottle in the USA. Main dish was Vietnamese Hang Nha Noodles, and salad, with a Cabernet Sauvignon. Desserts. That was about it for last night, for we will be picked up at 10AM to be taken to the airport tomo...

I earlier mentioned that my very first airplane flight was when I was around 10-years old from Honolulu to Maui.  I was born at Queen's Hospital in Honolulu in 1940.  Grew up in Kakaako and when I was in high school, took a trip to Hilo.  The first 18 years of my life was otherwise spent on Oahu.  I left in 1962 for Los Angeles to spend the summer living with my older brother, who got me a summer job at the Naval Civil Engineering Center, Port Hueneme, California.  Then spent 3.7 years at Stanford University. During our junior year, most of my friends decided  to join the first full year of John Kennedy's just announced Peace Corps when they graduated.  So I had to do something similarly sacrificial.  To explore my possible future, I found a summer job with C. Brewer in Hilo.  Lived in the Boys Club, and adjacent was the little league field of a team I watched.  They went all the way to Williamsport for the Little League World Series in ...

Two major news stories recently about hydrogen. In September the White House launched a generational  $7 billion hydrogen plan. Then this month the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNR) announced a  momentous breakthrough in harnessing controlled nuclear fusion . When I retired in 1999 I took on the gargantuan task to help save Humanity and Planet Earth.  Wrote several books on the subject.  Two of my early contributions were, one, in 1979 drafting the first hydrogen bill when I worked in the U.S. Senate.  And second, this was after spending two stints at LLNR working on the laser fusion program.  I keep telling people that I'm here just to plant seeds for the future.  Well, such good news more than 40 years later is fine enough for me. Long ago I became enamored with  hydrogen , for our Sun and all the stars generate energy by fusing this gas.  It is the most abundant element in the Universe.  Combust hydrogen in our atmosphere,...