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

I post a lot about the Blue Revolution and hydrogen.  My early experience had mostly to do with: Biomass in 1962 at the Hutchinson Sugar Company on the Big Island. Then a decade later I joined the faculty of the University of Hawaii, and began a program to grow microalgae in a raceway to both produce biofuels and remediate global warming by feeding the equivalent of stack gases into the system.  Soon thereafter, I became part of the  Hawaii Geothermal Project , and in 1976 we succeeded in drilling the hottest ( 676 F ) well in the world, which went on to generate 2.8 megawatts, a baseload power source that could supply electricity for 5000 homes. All those effluents were being discarded as an environmental nuisance, so I helped create  Noi'i O Puna, or the Puna Research Center  in 1985 to assist the private sector initiate new companies in a variety of agriculture, aquaculture and tourism activities.  This was the geo-equivalent of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority