I'll begin with the Razzies, also known as the Golden Raspberry Awards, a parody honoring the worst cinematic under-achievements.  The list of nominees is always announced just before the Academy Award announcements are made.  Winners this year will be publicized on March 11, the day before the Oscar ceremony. The Razzies: Were created by a few film industry veterans and UCLA film graduates in 1981. This was all started by John JB Wilson ( right ) who in 1980 hosted a potluck party immediately following the 53rd Academy Award ceremony, where he passed ballots out for the partygoers to vote on the worst film of the year.  The winner of the first Golden Raspberry Award was  Can't Stop the Music , a fictional account of The Village People.  I noticed that  Rotten Tomatoes  gave it 18%/37% ratings.  Among the stars were Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine and Bruce Jenner ( won Olympic Gold in Montreal 1976, then later became Caitlyn ), to the right. Fo...

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If you have long been following the progress of the hydrogen economy, you probably missed an esoteric piece of history that began with the  Matsunaga Hydrogen Act of 1990 .  Here is the clause from the Act. Created the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel ( HTAP ) to advise the Secretary of Energy. I searched through the details and could not find language to allow this to occur, but I think HTAP unilaterally decided to report to both the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Congress.   For all I know, this might have been unconstitutional.  That is, a panel that had equal access to the executive and legislative branches of the Federal government. For example, when HTAP submitted the recommended hydrogen budget to the Secretary of Energy, we also sent this same budget request to both houses of Congress. The result was that the Department of Energy tended to annually have the same budget to make approval easier. He, is, by the way on a  $10,000 savings bond ....

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....