About my posting yesterday on  MY LIFE , in the first month of this blog I also had a  MY LIFE .  Then on  26April2022 , dressed that first version up with some graphics.  Not much different from that of yesterday. However, I almost purposefully left out some of my life highlights, so rather than go back and add them to my posting yesterday,  here are some of them . My professional life, from first graduating, where I went into biomass engineering, to my academic career where I became a full professor of engineering and spent much of my years at the University Hawaii in the full spectrum of green energy, a satisfying honor came from the American Association of Civil Engineers, the Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. Energy award at their annual conference in 1999. Within the field of renewable energy, I was most active in ocean activities. Drafted the ocean thermal energy conversion bill that became law. Served as Secretary of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii and Director of the Hawaii Natur

I yesterday shared some depressing news showing a pathway for Donald Trump to regain the presidency.  Today, Trump revealed that he had on Sunday received an official letter from Jack Smith informing him he is a target of a grand jury probe into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.  The whole salami, from the January 6 Senate attack to influencing seven states to coerce extra votes after the election.  The Department of Justice has declined to comment.   But all that omens poorly for The Donald, as this latest beginning could lead to his ultimate end.  Be prepared, though, for a roller coaster political ride through next year.  Mind you,  even if Trump is convicted and incarcerated, he can still run for the presidency , and if some way can be found ( meaning Trump money of a billion dollars ) for someone like  Democratic Senator Joe Manchin to run as a third-party candidate , Trump could well win and theoretically  pardon himself out of jail to run the country from 2025 . Now ont

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, and the products are energy and water.  If s