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

This is a Tuesday, which means I select a past posting of relevance and, as necessary, update it.  The reason why I felt compelled to include this particular blog was that I learned a lesson:  knowing nothing about something can inspire you to develop creative solutions.  Today,  MY LIFE IN WIND POWER  was extracted from  SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth , a book which documented my life in renewable energy.  This lesson I just mentioned?  So I thought, why not write a book on which I know almost nothing, which became  SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth . You will note that the first sentence of MY LIFE IN WIND POWER indicates that there was a reason why I went to Washington, D.C.  The following info is useful to provide the background of this trip.  Keep in mind that all this occurred almost 50 years ago soon after the First Energy Crisis, which occurred in 1973. Dean of Engineering John Shupe was asked by Governor George Ariyoshi to do something about the long gasoline lines. Shupe c