tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57683173984720279232024-03-12T18:07:42.603-07:00iBLUE REVOLUTIONiBlue Revolution is a blog site searching for that visionary billionaire seeking a legacy in the sustainable development of Planet Earth for all of Humanity. Certainly, the open ocean is the ideal next frontier because of accessibility, cost, promise of enhancing the environment and cornucopia of potential resources. Let us proceed with wisdom and responsibility.WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-61520582062615594062022-03-25T17:41:00.001-07:002022-03-25T17:43:30.640-07:00A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE BLUE REVOLUTION<p><span style="text-align: justify;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw-shHyB5sAQx4AUzhQEYQc2pI9ahAVEXpeI8py8vnN2UpzeT4qLJAO7zF3n8gWnDvRbtjqlIH8-0zKaiEci64z392UEmtj8cY9Z3apY33ETiRYWmcyZ1MSlE8pvY1IuWmKdC-H0PB9LWHLDZadsEdU-SuXVmOSUMsshl7uutMEzE5cscXD5fXigGwnQ/s250/Blue%20Revolution%20Hawaii%20logo.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="139" data-original-width="250" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw-shHyB5sAQx4AUzhQEYQc2pI9ahAVEXpeI8py8vnN2UpzeT4qLJAO7zF3n8gWnDvRbtjqlIH8-0zKaiEci64z392UEmtj8cY9Z3apY33ETiRYWmcyZ1MSlE8pvY1IuWmKdC-H0PB9LWHLDZadsEdU-SuXVmOSUMsshl7uutMEzE5cscXD5fXigGwnQ/s1600/Blue%20Revolution%20Hawaii%20logo.png" width="250" /></a></span></div><span style="text-align: justify;">I've been thinking about how to gain funding for the Blue Revolution since around 1990. <a href="https://patkentak.blogspot.com/">Blue Revolution Hawaii </a>was organized around a dozen years ago. My <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1IGfzUKMGs">TEDx talk of December 2021</a> introduces the concept. If asked, here is a letter of introduction:</span><p></p><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>Dear </i></b></span></div></div><div style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>A pioneering group in Hawaii called <a data-blogger-escaped-data-auth="Verified" data-blogger-escaped-originalsrc="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/2020/" data-blogger-escaped-shash="smQSyk//PnEBCmEgp5nokOpnb/AKh5A+e4yNUutc2p6Jfa8BUQsk2nnaA+kmHjMXmqx2KTxlgtfDwcorVW5oJMEcQoLogMWuv5S0+LSVDmVAhFOukwupeJInoW7onsJ5P20xSk17OO3+AN8GdtflFXAe5e3QX4o49QoBiD62418=" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com%2F2020%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C56c66747d15143fccdd408d85200baf7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637349510373863596&sdata=2gq25VMfkTq9BJq4%2FVhsXsgY%2BdWgMj9kH48J1Y6pV9A%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Protected by Outlook: http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/2020/. Click or tap to follow the link.">Blue Revolution Hawaii</a> has spent the past decade developing the foundation for a new concept to save Planet Earth and Humanity, while providing free enterprise profit and <a data-blogger-escaped-data-auth="Verified" data-blogger-escaped-originalsrc="http://www.clubdesargonautes.org/otec/vol/vol8-4-1.htm" data-blogger-escaped-shash="xkO3IvEBrf0XpfO4UOCbsZL3HYJKgsO9CrTNcxml2foJcEqdeZ9noBq3xKjaM43+BWVT+redUClrPRRgao+YOsiND6spen1+UEwo+oYrEQ7FKvGazwFdtjPYLnCUtsm8+mafh/Il+B6Q/SANgKDxTi2uerafPet1XGceteWwe2Y=" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clubdesargonautes.org%2Fotec%2Fvol%2Fvol8-4-1.htm&data=02%7C01%7C%7C56c66747d15143fccdd408d85200baf7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637349510373873590&sdata=S5ssI4VQVM7tmtKDyb7V5yiyrmxi2ip%2FgNhARHIdDQM%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Protected by Outlook: http://www.clubdesargonautes.org/otec/vol/vol8-4-1.htm. Click or tap to follow the link.">enhancement of the marine environment</a>. <span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>The monumental accomplishments of society have been for war (<span data-blogger-escaped-style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Manhattan Project</span>) and world dominance (<span data-blogger-escaped-style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Apollo Project</span>). <span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>In the meantime, global warming has become a serious threat. </i></b></span></div></div><div style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>In the ocean around us is the solution to remediating the Greenhouse Effect and preventing the formation of hurricanes. All geoengineering concepts currently seem focused on goading Mother Nature at astronomical cost. </i></b></span></div></div><div style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>Around the world, at a depth of 1000 meters, the deep water temperature is around 4 C. <span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>If brought to the surface, combined with the warmer temperature, electricity can be generated. <span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Further, this fluid is pathogen-free and rich in nutrients in the exact ratio needed to regenerate growth at the surface. </i></b></span></div></div><div style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><br data-blogger-escaped-style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></i></b></span></div></div><div style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>Next generation fisheries and marine biomass plantations can be supported with this "free" fertilizer. The macro/micro algae growth can be converted into biofuels and other bio-products. The total system for clean energy production provides baseload electricity and a sel-sustainable opportunity for a cornucopia of commodities, including freshwater.</i></b></span></div></div><div style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><br data-blogger-escaped-style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></i></b></span></div></div><div style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>This is the BLUE REVOLUTION awaiting imaginative leadership for someone seeking a legacy. There are three phases:</i></b></span></div></div><ol start="1" style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px;" type="1"><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>A grant of $75,000 to the University of Hawaii to host a summit for interested billionaires and their staff in Hawaii to produce a strategic plan for the Blue Revolution.</i></b></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>$150 million to build the Pacific International Ocean Station--a <a data-blogger-escaped-data-auth="Verified" data-blogger-escaped-originalsrc="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/2011/04/pacific-international-ocean-station.html" data-blogger-escaped-shash="y0cnYK1LTZffSFy2ZxZZzshuqvqVOBH4RAzrJUxaP2m/SwdJRhrYpcjcmHf8RkABLuXCRm/MD2IuCISRPAbikjlikvCmSJ8FjpZrVgARosCwK8efW6Avnp4DbYs1QkcQPP9ByrR6qo9FgTyRaKVqIhgt3r3d4yuMvxpDc66wuIk=" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F04%2Fpacific-international-ocean-station.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C56c66747d15143fccdd408d85200baf7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637349510373883587&sdata=%2Feiy0CNaA0GuhB75Rnj7mndpcHSLh8E9fdtIpm0sVJU%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Protected by Outlook: http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/2011/04/pacific-international-ocean-station.html. Click or tap to follow the link.">floating experimental facility</a>--by 2030 in the Hawaiian EEZ, where the deep ocean and surface waters will be used to generate electricity and produce freshwater through ocean thermal energy development (<span data-blogger-escaped-style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">OTEC</span>). </i></b></span></li></ol><ol start="2" style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px;" type="1"><ol start="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-bottom: 0px;" type="a"><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>This effluent will then be maintained in the photic zone where the marine growth cycle can be initiated to start next generation fisheries and marine biomass plantations. </i></b></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>On the platform, technology transfer activities will develop novel ways to produce hydrogen, biofuels, biopharmaceuticals and a range of potential products. </i></b></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>Techniques will be tested to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. </i></b></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>At this early stage, hurricanes actually pose a problem, but if enough of these ultimate plant ships are placed in sites where they form, ocean storms can be ameliorated.</i></b></span></li></ol></ol><ol start="3" style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px;" type="1"><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>$150 billion to establish the first floating city and industrial park complement to host a million people.</i></b></span></li></ol><ol start="3" style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px;" type="1"><ol start="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-bottom: 0px;" type="a"><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><a data-blogger-escaped-data-auth="Verified" data-blogger-escaped-originalsrc="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2020/08/if-i-were-to-design-blue-revolution.html" data-blogger-escaped-shash="obWffAgzGw+2KEutzI4uV6moAsApjfFbwMxWIvr82zdkivTddVsRBNlxpMuZP5dKtaTo4hF9J4SimqRZ+SCqZPWj49ChKzKZJbkxdQoecbc+tFoTjUjjcaa6Hci9RaZ/VnsnMG/gYOJyTvUCb7AfhWHQU2yYlJXTYFTTVx4mUXQ=" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplanetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com%2F2020%2F08%2Fif-i-were-to-design-blue-revolution.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C56c66747d15143fccdd408d85200baf7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637349510373883587&sdata=02Fs9MbgbtiXm%2FN%2BxgRIuLM0e5sIsuvsJpGWTrwe59s%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Protected by Outlook: http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2020/08/if-i-were-to-design-blue-revolution.html. Click or tap to follow the link.">Port headquarters</a> in Honolulu Harbor at the Aloha Tower. </i></b></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>The 2050 World Expo will be hosted on this marine city, 200 hundred years after the first held in London. </i></b></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>The floating structure will be towed near the equator, where early future metropolises will be located. Hurricanes do not get close to the equator. </i></b></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>With control of hurricanes, many of these ocean cities can be located at more desirable sites.</i></b></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>In time, there could well be a 1000 floating countries, each with its own governance and lifestyle. Hope the United Nations can mature to handle this crowd.</i></b></span></li></ol></ol><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>The following references provide details:</i></b></span></div></div></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px;" type="disc"><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>A <a data-blogger-escaped-data-auth="Verified" data-blogger-escaped-originalsrc="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFBbq4s_tHU" data-blogger-escaped-shash="E9NTIokQ3df8wiL2Vs/R/Dq7C0olg/dvDME0N8K1UzH4LJyIRewxMrhXsQYujoRmrH/aK2yZL6x2p864MY2aYea2lzlIMb4jkbgl7vPIh73TRYWD9xV21YY2QUBjVzLHOWMnw3i/v7L0WHYEFogiriyCJK5JtZRDGOAoKO5Kssw=" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGFBbq4s_tHU&data=02%7C01%7C%7C56c66747d15143fccdd408d85200baf7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637349510373893581&sdata=e6IYFARtscBqYrRLEVjUpA6eGC3xHET0PzTmqIy9VTo%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Protected by Outlook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFBbq4s_tHU. Click or tap to follow the link.">powerpoint presentation by Patrick Takahashi</a>, who wrote the original OTEC bill when he worked for Senator Spark Matsunaga.</i></b></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>Chapter 4 of <span data-blogger-escaped-style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span data-blogger-escaped-style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><a data-blogger-escaped-data-auth="Verified" data-blogger-escaped-originalsrc="https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Solutions-Patrick-Kenji-Takahashi/dp/143432754X" data-blogger-escaped-shash="yMsE1QqJRbbSRaEU368M2KTjVO79+CSU5J31mkI1GjcvQOy/Gt3GAZTTk/I1BGmF+5S5UhtPck7/O9ZFblG8WPEpZ2uwRZ5C8ZTWilbHd8cAcm1JY/zoQVrOhjV7JEBCZfxwYjXDmRnGp9ihg6lihejWAx+8Gx8LUq6yAczlsxI=" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSimple-Solutions-Patrick-Kenji-Takahashi%2Fdp%2F143432754X&data=02%7C01%7C%7C56c66747d15143fccdd408d85200baf7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637349510373903576&sdata=eUpkr3%2FZJd%2FGIM9zZMDMon0lXoVvTst9MqVWCTMxTpc%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Protected by Outlook: https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Solutions-Patrick-Kenji-Takahashi/dp/143432754X. Click or tap to follow the link.">SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth</a></span></span>.</i></b></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>From the <span data-blogger-escaped-style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span data-blogger-escaped-style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Huffington Post</span></span>:</i></b></span></li></ul><ul style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-bottom: 0px;" type="disc"><ul style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px;" type="circle"><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-blogger-escaped-data-auth="Verified" data-blogger-escaped-originalsrc="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/blue-revolution_b_166977" data-blogger-escaped-shash="OVBjS+PLhd4JYCGclrI55LyocP/LkHiBSNQx7O+PDoOgywLz/gHnwOTStnUNo2+jHCRA4Vk/DJxSd0c4vfpssb0eijqY/FEaQvYGaJIBhf1heJ9XEL3pQnvfgYiNO1qBvQEx3haEm5NFC1euyQzieT4USFPlU8lvYNu6hr3xOvw=" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fblue-revolution_b_166977&data=02%7C01%7C%7C56c66747d15143fccdd408d85200baf7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637349510373913572&sdata=ZP2B3clTIX8Ra%2B6nE%2Fom5IO5OmKbIBijk%2Bp9W4J%2BMls%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Protected by Outlook: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/blue-revolution_b_166977. Click or tap to follow the link."><b><i>Blue Revolution</i></b></a></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><a data-blogger-escaped-data-auth="Verified" data-blogger-escaped-originalsrc="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-ultimate-ocean-ranch_b_146192" data-blogger-escaped-shash="cP79M5DSnodfy2sUSgsoD0x/v9UVtrCBEpUd6zEm8mInDpu8z2Ggm5niFp4OWrD8g07TCH6QorYXD9Ygrq7FF0k9CHZOpdUkqfHhJyJ0da9F7iAtv170T6UD4Hi/D48EUwA5mmqHfTBKmHkG8/9z36Rynnq3+eDYGiQC8XhT1KI=" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fthe-ultimate-ocean-ranch_b_146192&data=02%7C01%7C%7C56c66747d15143fccdd408d85200baf7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637349510373923567&sdata=uD1NSEQ0EQQHY6k1pZmpQ0KIKsW8tmnk0fPzBab%2FL4Q%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Protected by Outlook: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-ultimate-ocean-ranch_b_146192. Click or tap to follow the link.">The Ultimate Ocean Ranch</a></i></b></span></li></ul></ul><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;">About a decade ago <a href="http://r/">I endowed my penthouse to the University of Hawaii to start the Blue Revolution program on the Manoa Campus</a>. It has been awaiting cost-matching so we can begin to operate.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil1TWfB0lrk5t1PtjaV16nkt8rQ3MprA1NJkI8MQuYVKuR9RjYntk0M9ObPSqrKhYwoP9tOhyphenhyphen3ugq6mA68DtJuZyLripa_Hgz5iu9_wkadVhT97MUf1Xj_2BgO2AK1t3w-hwqfMIhhlZE/s1600/Blue+Revolution+Endowment+UHF+27Aug15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-height="640" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil1TWfB0lrk5t1PtjaV16nkt8rQ3MprA1NJkI8MQuYVKuR9RjYntk0M9ObPSqrKhYwoP9tOhyphenhyphen3ugq6mA68DtJuZyLripa_Hgz5iu9_wkadVhT97MUf1Xj_2BgO2AK1t3w-hwqfMIhhlZE/s640/Blue+Revolution+Endowment+UHF+27Aug15.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYRuoYzaldzWyvJBAoeYaSVjiCcTvesDiFIQ8kBhec70b7_yyJb7wtjt_wNSgCN0dKG0N350KT_APyEWPmODHN2kCB54LeRarFGilyCTGNdLLmsGO8-UgbTaqmy-rOvpGwRbgWzKskSYE/s1600/1++Blue+Revolution+Hawaii+PIOS+23May2012+11-38-15-1.027.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-height="240" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-width="320" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYRuoYzaldzWyvJBAoeYaSVjiCcTvesDiFIQ8kBhec70b7_yyJb7wtjt_wNSgCN0dKG0N350KT_APyEWPmODHN2kCB54LeRarFGilyCTGNdLLmsGO8-UgbTaqmy-rOvpGwRbgWzKskSYE/s400/1++Blue+Revolution+Hawaii+PIOS+23May2012+11-38-15-1.027.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_wy3-C_rq6q1ktQ3E-04AcW9h6dkzZkg-z8vGvIS3szOQbALOtKnmM7xIOaJPDNGaHY3rbOUm3qSBRCLJEJtZKE8N9eDE8bJho4dK83w51kjF3DFqRUBus0aBriEc0wbKNRyC2tc0MN0/s1600/960x0.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-height="539" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-width="960" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_wy3-C_rq6q1ktQ3E-04AcW9h6dkzZkg-z8vGvIS3szOQbALOtKnmM7xIOaJPDNGaHY3rbOUm3qSBRCLJEJtZKE8N9eDE8bJho4dK83w51kjF3DFqRUBus0aBriEc0wbKNRyC2tc0MN0/s320/960x0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin: 0px;">The key to the Blue Revolution is this imaginative billionaire, or, hopefully an armada of them. <a href="https://ibluer.blogspot.com/">Here is a blog site on this subject</a>. </div><ul><li>The number of billionaires in the world varies according to what is considered in their worth. <a href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/billionaires-by-country">Here is a realistic list which shows</a>:</li><ul><li>2863 billionaires</li><li>Top ten countries</li><ul><li>USA 724</li><li>China 698</li><li>India 140</li><li>Germany 136</li><li>Russia 117</li></ul><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx2RIhs-XEW4b2pReXmujA_jFMj7bCfq686pSCD0FRsIP8YW7OfClKHbmooJp8zqJOScIFFYlmjhPWuQlUHYzcoq8cciUK9fnkN5zLuPzzf9Qu5os5jRyaDhdvyEUTTvGZ2pkRVc-RuPK_OJA1DDqiuJStSHOPDO8iIqegj4NWITAHdHX3GEvQbzm4QA/s960/Elon-Musk.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx2RIhs-XEW4b2pReXmujA_jFMj7bCfq686pSCD0FRsIP8YW7OfClKHbmooJp8zqJOScIFFYlmjhPWuQlUHYzcoq8cciUK9fnkN5zLuPzzf9Qu5os5jRyaDhdvyEUTTvGZ2pkRVc-RuPK_OJA1DDqiuJStSHOPDO8iIqegj4NWITAHdHX3GEvQbzm4QA/s320/Elon-Musk.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Hong Kong has the most billionaires/million people, with almost 9. The U.S., for example only as 2/million. The world average is 0.35.</li></ul><li><b><i><a href="https://ceoworld.biz/2022/01/22/the-worlds-richest-people-top-billionaires-2022/">CEOWorld Magazine</a></i></b> updated the above and listed Elon Musk at $220 billion as the richest person, with Jeff Bezos #2 with $177 billion. #100 is Donald Bren of the U.S. has a worth of $19 billion.</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwbLlzXQISB8JyKYtYANBIw086s-auLX6yNZIpX-8SK0PTc9PaisAKpi93uVN9sxdhWOcr6UTdLxriWgDaf8DpU6sHwAcHSbBQRMx4kBst7KxxN7dV4m-51a5csdvbEsI-wxh1wAquk2c/s1600/Unknown.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-height="183" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-width="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwbLlzXQISB8JyKYtYANBIw086s-auLX6yNZIpX-8SK0PTc9PaisAKpi93uVN9sxdhWOcr6UTdLxriWgDaf8DpU6sHwAcHSbBQRMx4kBst7KxxN7dV4m-51a5csdvbEsI-wxh1wAquk2c/s1600/Unknown.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Many of the adventurous rich dream of conquering outer space. I've had this dilemma because I think, at this stage of development for society, we need to focus on what we need on this globe first. So why can't we do both, for there remains some concern that <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2022/03/billionaires.html">we might be the only intelligent life in the Universe</a>, and we need to assure for our continued existence by expanding our presence</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvHjo1nhabGsByZd4bPCTzS5J9VFiWu0PBHDvLFHaDqM7QGslyrNnbvc2UZR217s4grDeaZve9QEG-CE78LfMY6uMNBFD5U7TPu6HycFXlxkNXvEQwocqJuHWTcxdu3xrbDDv2qJmgN48/s1600/images.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-height="234" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-width="215" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvHjo1nhabGsByZd4bPCTzS5J9VFiWu0PBHDvLFHaDqM7QGslyrNnbvc2UZR217s4grDeaZve9QEG-CE78LfMY6uMNBFD5U7TPu6HycFXlxkNXvEQwocqJuHWTcxdu3xrbDDv2qJmgN48/s200/images.jpeg" width="183" /></a></div><div style="margin: 0px;">There is that global warming inconvenience, of course. But what if there is a higher order opportunity that incorporates reducing the Greenhouse Effect?</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2Kr2hvjr8Nc5dFjUpN1MxnXj5ooQXaUlgBdrkvIGE-_8SsRrPTncpoPvvMCtGLVdoDA7Zs-16Hu-sklD-YLCmnQ5MSaGfPB3EwIIf-5HgL6unthIRcED4dReFPrekqKCrWaIUmw6v0w/s1600/Unknown-1.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-height="255" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-width="197" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2Kr2hvjr8Nc5dFjUpN1MxnXj5ooQXaUlgBdrkvIGE-_8SsRrPTncpoPvvMCtGLVdoDA7Zs-16Hu-sklD-YLCmnQ5MSaGfPB3EwIIf-5HgL6unthIRcED4dReFPrekqKCrWaIUmw6v0w/s200/Unknown-1.jpeg" width="154" /></a>The ocean is that vast unknown and potential site for the cornucopia of benefits: sustainable products and energy, next generation fisheries, reversing global warming, preventing hurricanes, establishing marine cities and the like. The would be the Blue Revolution.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHgfMUKkvSDrV0uv9i6oVJzO_GJBz8BQVDILthGm_4BFlTAEr4jcH_stDhW52ZSGhASgGVpqowEKnP0l-UR1iq0_dTh59y2GGDaMl_fjwDIEqp07g9Ggx-t8B51Q-SaV5fQpIrIENh-LU/s1600/laotzu1-2x.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-height="630" data-blogger-escaped-data-original-width="1200" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHgfMUKkvSDrV0uv9i6oVJzO_GJBz8BQVDILthGm_4BFlTAEr4jcH_stDhW52ZSGhASgGVpqowEKnP0l-UR1iq0_dTh59y2GGDaMl_fjwDIEqp07g9Ggx-t8B51Q-SaV5fQpIrIENh-LU/s200/laotzu1-2x.jpg" width="200" /></a>So at this initiation stage, Blue Revolution Hawaii seeks $75,000 to host that first billionaire's summit to justify $500,000 to begin serious planning for the Pacific International Ocean Station (<i>PIOS</i>), which is currently estimated to cost $150 million when commissioned in 2030. For additional information:</div><ul><li>Contact Patrick Takahashi at PatKenTak@hotmail.com.</li><li>Details can be found at <a href="https://patkentak.blogspot.com/"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">2020 Blue Revolution Hawaii</span></b></a></li></ul><div style="margin: 0px;">-</div></div>WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-89094004208007433182022-03-25T16:54:00.006-07:002022-03-25T16:56:58.033-07:00BILLIONAIRES<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPUmCWYjv6BZ2o9iW7KwNPQrU4mOYBKFfi3-8sLm-mBwnQC9v0q7EdQ-smVj8mXhUkcTfy8IqKKlYNESUdXREE_kE3_-ia0Loddh_LG9rYxYNN7F84ZBjZ7HrQ93R7TCHM1nBn7lw-zboC1A4TlXYk1V6LbAPQ7oCo1-MXLsAdxFD7tj1tqfCjprq1/s960/slide_5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPUmCWYjv6BZ2o9iW7KwNPQrU4mOYBKFfi3-8sLm-mBwnQC9v0q7EdQ-smVj8mXhUkcTfy8IqKKlYNESUdXREE_kE3_-ia0Loddh_LG9rYxYNN7F84ZBjZ7HrQ93R7TCHM1nBn7lw-zboC1A4TlXYk1V6LbAPQ7oCo1-MXLsAdxFD7tj1tqfCjprq1/s320/slide_5.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="text-align: justify;">How does anything magnificently monumental happen? More recently, wars inspired the USA to change the world with two incredible accomplishments: The Manhattan Project and the Apollo Project. The former was to beat Hitler build an atomic bomb, leading to victory in World War II, and latter to bankrupt the Soviet Union to end the Cold War.</span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVzoV4p-MfP-nz83_sSVtFnrAkriuG76V6lSImfUyqNzbUwhB-qssxtQhpmZCUy18W-USdW-ne23H-K5hU-Gph6TzCacnjVNg1ra27cmzEgceFeBIETcHhOphLG_3maIv_k-0-41lSsDZCn9b_U8XbjBg_JH-LjWnLoPNJaWVSonBontlxMmkT4vs/s1300/82710631-%E1%84%89%E1%85%B3%E1%84%90%E1%85%A2%E1%86%AB%E1%84%91%E1%85%A9%E1%84%83%E1%85%B3-%E1%84%83%E1%85%A2%E1%84%92%E1%85%A1%E1%86%A8-%E1%84%92%E1%85%AE%E1%84%87%E1%85%A5-%E1%84%90%E1%85%A1%E1%84%8B%E1%85%AF%E1%84%8B%E1%85%B4-%E1%84%86%E1%85%AE%E1%84%8B%E1%85%B5%E1%86%AB%E1%84%83%E1%85%A9%E1%84%87%E1%85%A9%E1%84%80%E1%85%B5.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1300" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVzoV4p-MfP-nz83_sSVtFnrAkriuG76V6lSImfUyqNzbUwhB-qssxtQhpmZCUy18W-USdW-ne23H-K5hU-Gph6TzCacnjVNg1ra27cmzEgceFeBIETcHhOphLG_3maIv_k-0-41lSsDZCn9b_U8XbjBg_JH-LjWnLoPNJaWVSonBontlxMmkT4vs/s320/82710631-%E1%84%89%E1%85%B3%E1%84%90%E1%85%A2%E1%86%AB%E1%84%91%E1%85%A9%E1%84%83%E1%85%B3-%E1%84%83%E1%85%A2%E1%84%92%E1%85%A1%E1%86%A8-%E1%84%92%E1%85%AE%E1%84%87%E1%85%A5-%E1%84%90%E1%85%A1%E1%84%8B%E1%85%AF%E1%84%8B%E1%85%B4-%E1%84%86%E1%85%AE%E1%84%8B%E1%85%B5%E1%86%AB%E1%84%83%E1%85%A9%E1%84%87%E1%85%A9%E1%84%80%E1%85%B5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first one listed above, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinental_railroad">Transcontinental Railroad</a>, was built by three private companies over public lands provided by government grants and financed by state and federal subsidy bonds. The leader of the organization was Leland Stanford, who went on to found Stanford University. Hoover Dam was financed by a $140 million mortgage loan from the U.S. Treasury, and was <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-31-mn-9239-story.html">finally paid off in 1987</a>. President Herbert Hoover pushed the bill in Congress during the great depression. He was in the Pioneer Class of 1891 at Stanford, and that tower is named for him. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaxC4SUezYK82hh3BdyvT8royv6xuvGJa_YplF0PM9mOantlitZ6mAMdzhFI0swklI_ybRBYV6TSzoYx8RMC1A-jupCZvErat7QI4vqRJuOIGAGLDZyG9jpXyAIrxUSxH3WU10_305AWyPwdqOpjvQJDMe1e7YVFMl5MI9eqL4zl39oIZV3qhZEvpA/s311/Unknown-2.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="311" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaxC4SUezYK82hh3BdyvT8royv6xuvGJa_YplF0PM9mOantlitZ6mAMdzhFI0swklI_ybRBYV6TSzoYx8RMC1A-jupCZvErat7QI4vqRJuOIGAGLDZyG9jpXyAIrxUSxH3WU10_305AWyPwdqOpjvQJDMe1e7YVFMl5MI9eqL4zl39oIZV3qhZEvpA/s1600/Unknown-2.jpeg" width="311" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, he makes all the lists for worst presidents of U.S. <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/the-worst-presidents/slideshows/the-10-worst-presidents?slide=10">Here</a> he is #9 and Donald Trump is #2. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/opinion/sunday/trump-bad-presidents-history.html">With Trump at the bottom are usually Andrew Johnson and James Buchanan</a>. Incidentally, by far, Trump has been the richest president, and only billionaire, with Washington #2, Jefferson #3 and Hoover #8.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgznqCC_6NI-Iu6sfccr62JGWNNR8Jq2ZCe6F3qcCHnEuFUSY-b9ncnj35mmAsyVKrM3J948GaKmCh_pKri4Dxl_JYrAsaFIrAGSPEFu9ATl-Q20etRyyj3RPOBRzg7MElbfxGieIGJk0toVSKMA1k3LYT0Chc4HlfehD9YDwOv_8dWZMnp5r-GqGru/s259/images.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="195" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgznqCC_6NI-Iu6sfccr62JGWNNR8Jq2ZCe6F3qcCHnEuFUSY-b9ncnj35mmAsyVKrM3J948GaKmCh_pKri4Dxl_JYrAsaFIrAGSPEFu9ATl-Q20etRyyj3RPOBRzg7MElbfxGieIGJk0toVSKMA1k3LYT0Chc4HlfehD9YDwOv_8dWZMnp5r-GqGru/s1600/images.jpeg" width="195" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this 21st century we are now threatened by global warming, and it will take the combined efforts of the entire world to overcome this problem. While there has been some progress, the danger is perhaps too subtle that we will probably need something fearsome like tens of millions one hot summer dying to catalyze any real solution. I have suggested <b><i><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-venus-syndrome-revisi_b_140182">The Venus Syndrome</a></i></b> to throw a two-by-four clout into the fray.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Billionaires seem to be romantically spurred by outer space, in particular the colonization of Mars. It's their money, and as my posting on <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-ultimate-evolution-of-life.html">THE ULTIMATE EVOLUTION OF LIFE</a> indicated, perhaps they are rightfully being foresightful.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1dg0a8xqZtr7iLtkbP2XKlfMYSHnmSF7VSUa_7J5cMsqYQykS11ThOXlqud3ALhGOyeaqfK3NAFdAhsE59IO465IqP5p0Vx0AWrdeZ3AT_Kw5MiPZKV1AA5u9eSF79Y2gZJQ9LnSWZoubx6nWd1pjDQoY9KBQb-orOXz1ruG4d2ELmXM3UdaC4Yef/s250/Blue%20Revolution%20Hawaii%20logo-1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="139" data-original-width="250" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1dg0a8xqZtr7iLtkbP2XKlfMYSHnmSF7VSUa_7J5cMsqYQykS11ThOXlqud3ALhGOyeaqfK3NAFdAhsE59IO465IqP5p0Vx0AWrdeZ3AT_Kw5MiPZKV1AA5u9eSF79Y2gZJQ9LnSWZoubx6nWd1pjDQoY9KBQb-orOXz1ruG4d2ELmXM3UdaC4Yef/s1600/Blue%20Revolution%20Hawaii%20logo-1.png" width="250" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Personally, I think it is premature to spend so much money today to do what we might need to do some time in the future, like a millennium from now. We have urgent current needs on Planet Earth today, and the <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/blue-revolution_b_166977">Blue Revolution</a> offers an opportunity to accomplish so many things for the benefit of both our economy and environment, while creating commodities for profit. Watch my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1IGfzUKMGs">TEDx talk</a> of a few months ago.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOkTGHeH5wB5qmvshbBxZKtwyl-aLUojDVeRJUmCbXjkyOQ8VcDCUUJR25Q5OfTK9diMhJxru8LdxJ8vavXVaQSDgzkzAZ2_eUkFCbOR7fFJQmJ6LL9T2gNTomc4ieI906sxTtNklKXG3NH9rg8dVTs1SLz1l1eNHLX_MV_VRIdLrbK4pCXjkbNQ50/s640/1%20%20Blue%20Revolution%20Hawaii%20PIOS%2023May2012%2011-38-15-1.027.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOkTGHeH5wB5qmvshbBxZKtwyl-aLUojDVeRJUmCbXjkyOQ8VcDCUUJR25Q5OfTK9diMhJxru8LdxJ8vavXVaQSDgzkzAZ2_eUkFCbOR7fFJQmJ6LL9T2gNTomc4ieI906sxTtNklKXG3NH9rg8dVTs1SLz1l1eNHLX_MV_VRIdLrbK4pCXjkbNQ50/s320/1%20%20Blue%20Revolution%20Hawaii%20PIOS%2023May2012%2011-38-15-1.027.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Simply:<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">A thousand meters deep in the ocean is a FREE cold water resource capable of providing electricity, freshwater, hydrogen, range of sustainable bioproducts, exciting living habitats and the potential for both remediating climate warming and preventing the formation of hurricanes.</li></ul><ul><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJp1J49CdOgWXQet_fjDoFud8m6R38MP614md469UMo1J6mByZ5hCh0RpweOkYmnKLEVOEnU3ib5B678lhL_wXbA9zKTs6KSlTXNhX9fWNI57o87YFhJH8yROq700sazHopXEDdnzfT3qLc-LPEICmIThPmeMsYzk0ufx5mNPGwzjO4yDqAqGynzyD/s400/Mensa%20%20%20Blue%20Revolution%20Plantship%20drawing-1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="400" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJp1J49CdOgWXQet_fjDoFud8m6R38MP614md469UMo1J6mByZ5hCh0RpweOkYmnKLEVOEnU3ib5B678lhL_wXbA9zKTs6KSlTXNhX9fWNI57o87YFhJH8yROq700sazHopXEDdnzfT3qLc-LPEICmIThPmeMsYzk0ufx5mNPGwzjO4yDqAqGynzyD/s320/Mensa%20%20%20Blue%20Revolution%20Plantship%20drawing-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Envisioned is a simple two-step process leading to perhaps a thousand nations at sea someday:</div></li><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">$150 million to build and operate the Pacific International Ocean Station to develop the science, technology and pre-commercialization of enterprises for next generation fisheries, marine biomass plantations and assortment of sustainable options.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">By 2050, $150 billion to build the first ocean city to host the 2050 World Ocean Expo.</li></ul></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">But the big question is how to get to even step one. Governments and companies are just not capable of investing such sums. The one answer is a billionaire or two or more.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh4ygybye2YsD3qYSv7gS14p35fOjrQ2pD6s6LX8FmSEsfxqsGPmP0VZDdh8dIU_BaEvQ8OUw7VI3yasdSa3IfCs-L8bkTt5gIeBVcJoOZbTlhECyS44D69rUFyv8yCSu97ODGY9mDDj5XFAW2-gQgh35LsL_n5kwjCFCoGdDKUzjO-F5f-7wrk-Rk/s184/Guy%20Toyama.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="184" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh4ygybye2YsD3qYSv7gS14p35fOjrQ2pD6s6LX8FmSEsfxqsGPmP0VZDdh8dIU_BaEvQ8OUw7VI3yasdSa3IfCs-L8bkTt5gIeBVcJoOZbTlhECyS44D69rUFyv8yCSu97ODGY9mDDj5XFAW2-gQgh35LsL_n5kwjCFCoGdDKUzjO-F5f-7wrk-Rk/s1600/Guy%20Toyama.jpeg" width="184" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since <a href="https://patkentak.blogspot.com">Blue Revolution Hawaii</a> formed a dozen years ago, we determined that the optimal, and maybe only, pathway was through an <a href="https://2020ibluer.blogspot.com/2020/09/funding-for-blue-revolution.html">inspired billionaire</a>. The individual who suggested this strategy was Guy Toyama, who unfortunately passed away a decade ago at the age of 42. <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2012/11/in-remembrance-of-paul-and-guy.html">From my remembrance</a>:</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><span face="Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" style="background-color: #f7f0e9; caret-color: rgb(13, 35, 59); color: #0d233b; text-size-adjust: auto;">Guy's legacy might well be Blue Revolution Hawaii and the Pacific International Ocean Station. A couple of years ago, we were having lunch in Kona when he mentioned how billionaire Gordon Moore had provided funds to initiate the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.spacedaily.com/news/telescopes-03zn.html" style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-size-adjust: auto;">Thirty Meter Telescope Project</a><span face="Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" style="background-color: #f7f0e9; caret-color: rgb(13, 35, 59); color: #0d233b; text-size-adjust: auto;">. As Guy had an office at Keahole Point at the entrance of the NELHA, why not the Blue Revolution with support from a billionaire? Thus was born<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/" style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-size-adjust: auto;">Blue Revolution Hawaii</a><span face="Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" style="background-color: #f7f0e9; caret-color: rgb(13, 35, 59); color: #0d233b; text-size-adjust: auto;">, which proposed the Pacific International Ocean Station. Guy created the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/2012/06/pacific-international-ocean-station.html" style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-size-adjust: auto;">presentation for PIOS</a><span face="Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" style="background-color: #f7f0e9; caret-color: rgb(13, 35, 59); color: #0d233b; text-size-adjust: auto;">, which I presented at the Seasteading Institute's conference in San Francisco. </span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMrIDc6En0JWRGPxNYJh_IQ0j_n6_l5W-f0k8QzCQbb_T7MB--8Krc7nHgIqHlABh4SOekGvpiOSDhAQJwhXQO_My3pyKYOpclknqXlX0lNjSzuDHKKJpo92XAoABMdK0bXIa9M3pYzyFr6NzwLp6mPSlhnrps7Ud-rucpkGmc9lC8gcZLmi8lA2k8/s374/Unknown-3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="135" data-original-width="374" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMrIDc6En0JWRGPxNYJh_IQ0j_n6_l5W-f0k8QzCQbb_T7MB--8Krc7nHgIqHlABh4SOekGvpiOSDhAQJwhXQO_My3pyKYOpclknqXlX0lNjSzuDHKKJpo92XAoABMdK0bXIa9M3pYzyFr6NzwLp6mPSlhnrps7Ud-rucpkGmc9lC8gcZLmi8lA2k8/w400-h145/Unknown-3.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPJgVzKv3BZxCxhtNGGaRYSH_cxRpgsA1l4YgeB1GLM7JhtXomuFpBAjRewgg6zvDoiYscbPmK5aXPR_FEhK_FUkagAcx7rL5Dysv41j6lSautf-aIyC0lc2M-MDEBt_nqz49MKkNv34QJi18ZDF63D7SKQ5EL8USuiygyDTYxPTwnDCxemi-KSfj/s960/0x0-1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPJgVzKv3BZxCxhtNGGaRYSH_cxRpgsA1l4YgeB1GLM7JhtXomuFpBAjRewgg6zvDoiYscbPmK5aXPR_FEhK_FUkagAcx7rL5Dysv41j6lSautf-aIyC0lc2M-MDEBt_nqz49MKkNv34QJi18ZDF63D7SKQ5EL8USuiygyDTYxPTwnDCxemi-KSfj/s320/0x0-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></b></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Axios</i></b> just published: <a href="https://www.axios.com/china-new-billionaires-faster-us-5ab941fc-e8f8-42af-a249-bb7901d05081.html?utm_term=OZY&utm_campaign=pdb&utm_content=Tuesday_03.22.22&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email">China is making new billionaires much faster than the U.S</a>.</div></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">China and the U.S. together have 55% of the world's known billionaires.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">China as 1133 to the U.S.'s 716, with a growth rate three times that of America.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">China has three cities with the most billionaires. New York City is #4.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">60-70% of all female billionaires in the World are from China.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">However, the American billionaires control 32% of all combine wealth, compared to China's 27%.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">The total market cap of Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet are equivalent to the top 500 most valuable non-state controlled companies in China.</li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3WCmmqs5LsopETCKFEE77brNi09smCttir5kHXkQ0GavwkYiBogZv8hXnoquNang6UDERC-WiTZAq4Mj-YjrRqrTU-n949A8_DEQwv66x8cxsb4kc43N1bNrZ0kj7Ie_HQD30BRqaOekP_DI23JxqtsjQ5PXq2lPWC9ibXrseUj6DNgyRsPwXfM5m/s275/images-2.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3WCmmqs5LsopETCKFEE77brNi09smCttir5kHXkQ0GavwkYiBogZv8hXnoquNang6UDERC-WiTZAq4Mj-YjrRqrTU-n949A8_DEQwv66x8cxsb4kc43N1bNrZ0kj7Ie_HQD30BRqaOekP_DI23JxqtsjQ5PXq2lPWC9ibXrseUj6DNgyRsPwXfM5m/s1600/images-2.jpeg" width="183" /></a></i></b></div><b><i>Forbes</i></b> annually ranks billionaires. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#4c773ade3d78">Curently:</a><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li>#1 Elon Musk $266 B U.S.</li><li>#2 Jeff Bezos $191 B U.S.</li><li>#3 Bernard Arnault $172 B France</li><li>#4 Bill Gates $135 B U.S.</li><li>#5 Warren Buffett $126 B U.S.</li><li>#6 - #9 from the U.S.</li><li>#10 Mukesh Ambani $96 B India</li><li>#16 Zhong Shanshan $71 B China</li><li>#27 Zhang Yiming $50 B China</li><li>#100 Li Xiting $17 B Singapore</li><li>#200 Stefano Pessina $10 B Monaco</li><li>#300 Stewart and Lynda Resnick $8 B U.S.</li><li>#400 Philippe Laffont $7 B U.S.</li><li>#500 Huang Yi $6 B Hong Kong</li><li>#600 Marc Rowan $5 B U.S.</li></ul><div><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/10/05/donald-trump-falls-off-the-forbes-400-for-first-time-in-25-years/?sh=5842a944f62b"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/10/05/donald-trump-falls-off-the-forbes-400-for-first-time-in-25-years/?sh=5842a944f62b"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-8ZePzmj8Yf9b6MneAe2yv54Bne-A_nV6-MqRYXHs1OYVT1zopeBnMRqsvFYHqRa5Oa8uPRWSSmo21sslaDA0JPGfYzwa3taYC6RBSFGSPX2bGFeGogymHQS_UyAqusmHjyfIdT7lNDp1blBOL00AY9HsZYyoECVW55We14lNdfBHtaoui2RLEL9G/s2798/0x0.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2798" data-original-width="2798" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-8ZePzmj8Yf9b6MneAe2yv54Bne-A_nV6-MqRYXHs1OYVT1zopeBnMRqsvFYHqRa5Oa8uPRWSSmo21sslaDA0JPGfYzwa3taYC6RBSFGSPX2bGFeGogymHQS_UyAqusmHjyfIdT7lNDp1blBOL00AY9HsZYyoECVW55We14lNdfBHtaoui2RLEL9G/s320/0x0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Donald Trump was still a billionaire last year at $2.5 billionaire, but missed making the <b><i>Forbes</i></b> Top 400 billionaires list for the first time in 25 years. He has apparently lost $600 million since the pandemic started. <b><i>Forbes</i></b> also indicated that his <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/10/07/trumps-debt-now-totals-an-estimated-13-billion/?sh=4d05d5e14575">debt total now is $1.3 billion</a>. However, various sources, all saying that it is essentially impossible to accurately determine how much he is really worth, nevertheless seem to also say that as of this month <a href="https://thesuccessbug.com/net-worth-donald-trump/">he is a billionaire</a>.</div></div><p></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">-</span> </p>WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-54509655535189560412020-03-31T16:51:00.001-07:002020-03-31T16:59:11.523-07:00JEFF BEZOS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of the difficulties of securing mega-sums for the Blue Revolution is that billionaires seem enamored of outer space...like many of us were. You've heard about their dreams:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">South-African-Canadian-American billionaire<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Elon Musk">Elon Musk</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bloomberg-2015-04-13_3-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_space_race#cite_note-Bloomberg-2015-04-13-3" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;">[3]</a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>behind<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="SpaceX">SpaceX</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and a project to colonize Mars.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TheWeek-2016-09-17_4-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_space_race#cite_note-TheWeek-2016-09-17-4" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;">[4]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Fortune-2016-11-15_1-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_space_race#cite_note-Fortune-2016-11-15-1" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;">[1]</a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">American billionaire<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Jeff Bezos">Jeff Bezos</a>, behind<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Blue Origin">Blue Origin</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and establishing a true industrial base in space.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TheWeek-2016-09-17_4-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_space_race#cite_note-TheWeek-2016-09-17-4" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;">[4]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DailyBeast-2016-06-19_2-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_space_race#cite_note-DailyBeast-2016-06-19-2" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Fortune-2016-11-15_1-5" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_space_race#cite_note-Fortune-2016-11-15-1" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;">[1]</a></sup></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">British billionaire<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Richard Branson">Richard Branson</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bloomberg-2015-04-13_3-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_space_race#cite_note-Bloomberg-2015-04-13-3" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;">[3]</a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>behind<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Galactic" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Virgin Galactic">Virgin Galactic</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Orbit" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Virgin Orbit">Virgin Orbit</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Space tourism">space tourism</a>, low-cost small orbital launchers, and intercontinental suborbital transit.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TheWeek-2016-09-17_4-3" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_space_race#cite_note-TheWeek-2016-09-17-4" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;">[4]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DailyBeast-2016-06-19_2-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_space_race#cite_note-DailyBeast-2016-06-19-2" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Fortune-2016-11-15_1-6" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_space_race#cite_note-Fortune-2016-11-15-1" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;">[1]</a></sup></li>
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A few years ago one of us compared himself with <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2015/06/elon-musk-versus-pat-takahashi.html">Elon Musk</a>, perhaps with a tinge of sarcasm. How stupid. If he had any possible interest in the Blue Revolution, that went with that posting, for there was deprecation of space as a viable field of current investment. The wonder of space is the vastness and uncertainty. There is something about childhood romance and imagination that deserves pursuit.</div>
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One of us worked for NASA on the <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2009/11/chapter-4-seeking-lightseti-part-2.html">Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence</a>, but subsequently felt that space exploration involving real people and billions of bucks was both dangerous and not a smart way to spend your money. There are too many other more important priorities. The Apollo Project was an almost necessary policy decision that helped end the Cold War.<br />
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We avoided nuclear holocaust through this space adventure, but there was a compelling political reason. Here we went again, but some of us don't see space being profitable for at least a century, and perhaps millennium. Fine if you are rich and seek this seeming ultimate adventure, but not ideal for saving Planet Earth and Humanity. Yes, someday possibly necessary, but not today, nor for the next century. Well, perhaps we haven't yet learned our lesson.</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Has around half a million subscribers.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Almost expired, but recovered, in 2101 posting its first profit in a decade, and in 2016 being named Magazine of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors.</li>
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Today, Jeff Bezos runs nearly 40% of all e-commerce in the U.S. Amazon controls half of the cloud-computing industry. They sell 42% of all books and a third of the market for streaming video. Add selling food and getting into real estate. Then there is <b><i>The Washington Post</i></b>, with <b><i>The New York Times</i></b>, the conscience and nemeses of Donald Trump.<br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Bezos is relentless, but thinks there is a virtue to wandering.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Was made by his mother, in almost all ways.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Flirted with becoming a theoretical physicist at Princeton.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Is elitist, and fosters a meritocracy of hard-working intelligence. A lot of PhD economists. Few women at the top. Top six are white men. In history, one black female on the board. <a href="https://onezero.medium.com/amazon-has-a-white-man-problem-179e9759f35b">But not much different from Google and Facebook</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><i>If you're going in for a Bezos meeting, you're like preparing as if the world is going to end</i>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Hire smart people who are tasked to find smarter people.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><i>Invent and Simplify...Bias for Action...Have Backbone...Disagree and Commit</i>. Some of 14 principles.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Fanatic about <b style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek </b>and wants to get into outer space.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Has a profit-making company called Blue Origin, dealing with space. At least that's blue.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">From the author: <i>In contrast to the dysfunction and cynicism that define the times, Amazon is the embodiment of competence, the rare institution that routinely works. 600 million items for sale from 3 million vendors. Has set aside $700 to retrain a third of its 600,000 employees. No unions. The company is deeply trusted by the public...</i>unlike politicians and just about everyone else, these days.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Whoops, <b><i><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/hayleycuccinello/2020/01/17/jeff-bezos-is-no-longer-the-richest-person-in-the-world-again/#dbfb377b622e">Forbes</a></i></b> indicated that Bezos is no longer the richest person in the world. He only has $115.6 billion. Bernard Arnault of LVMH is worth 117 billion. Bill Gates is #3, but would have been #1 had he not donated $35.8 billion to charity.</li>
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While Bezos is developing the technology for space, perhaps he might <u>also</u> want to consider in parallel the <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2019/04/ttt2019-day-16-next-greatest-challenge.html">NEXT GREATEST CHALLENGE FOR PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY</a>, which, of course, is the Blue Revolution. This posting is way too long already, so I leave with a few references for your perusal:</div>
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<li>From<b><i><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/blue-revolution_b_166977"> The Huffington Post</a></i></b>: <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/blue-revolution_b_166977">Blue Revolution</a></li>
<li><a href="https://patkentak.blogspot.com/">Blue Revolution Hawaii 2020</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2015/08/progress-on-blue-revolution.html">Progress on the Blue Revolution</a></li>
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Someone out there, please send this posting to Jeff Bezos, or one of his associates, or a friend of them, or... Here is a central e-mail site:<br />
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WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-29789422383645998132019-04-29T20:05:00.000-07:002019-04-30T00:32:56.600-07:00PROGRESS AND VISION FOR THE BLUE REVOLUTION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Blue Revolution Hawaii last year organized a session at Aquaculture America 2018 to encourage early thinking of the concept. Board member Benny Ron has been working with NOAA and international partners in advancing the field.<br />
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In essence, the Blue Revolution is that esoteric field. The Blue Revolution has been touted for three decades as something ideal for the future of our society, for, while producing sustainable products and clean energy, shows promise for reducing the incidence of hurricanes and remediating global warming. As the ocean gets most of the warming, the concept shows promise for reversing climate change.<br />
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So let us first quickly review those two previous great challenges: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project">beating Hitler in his quest for the Atomic Bomb</a>, and overcoming the Soviet Union in space with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program">Project Apollo</a> to the Moon. Both efforts cost $25 billion, but only <a href="https://www.quora.com/In-todays-money-how-much-was-the-Apollo-mission">$2 billion</a> was spent to build the bombs, which has a worth of $25 billion today. On the other hand, Apollo actually cost $25 billion in the early to mid 70's, or <a href="https://www.quora.com/In-todays-money-how-much-was-the-Apollo-mission">$150 billion in 2019 dollar</a>s.</div>
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So that is the next greatest challenge for Humanity and Planet Earth? Overcoming Hitler led to nuclear power, but fission using Uranium and Plutonium, with the potential for more bombs, led to Chernobyl and Fukushima, with a continuing rocky future. The Apollo Project showed that there was no really attractive commercial case for the Moon. How now, can we go one better by marshaling international cooperation towards a reduction of carbon dioxide combustion, while actually enhancing long-term human productivity?</div>
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This was the breakthrough clue I needed to make the Blue Revolution the next great solution. The key is that the Blue Revolution can be <b><span style="color: #38761d;">profitable</span></b>. Just <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/01/silver-bullet-to-suck-co2-from-air-and-halt-climate-change-ruled-out">absorbing carbon dioxide makes no sense because it is too expensive</a>. Clean coal technology similarly is a money-loser. There is no way to make a profit from reducing carbon burning, except using something else. And one of these could well be ocean thermal energy conversion, or <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4656085010574328439#editor/target=post;postID=2465694560746942353;onPublishedMenu=template;onClosedMenu=template;postNum=0;src=link">OTEC</a>.</div>
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That is the advantage of the <b><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-dawn-of-the-blue-revo_b_145889">Blue Revolution,</a></b> for the whole process will be powered by OTEC, a technology that begins to become competitive only at 1000 MW sizes and larger. The total system, thus, uses the heat of the ocean, which is replenished by the sun, with the cold portion coming from Arctic and Antarctic regions. In addition to electricity and freshwater, there will be a cornucopia of desirable products such as next generation fisheries, marine biomass plantations, hydrogen, biomethanol, comfortable new habitation options, exciting entertainment enterprises and much more. These Blue Revolution platforms will in time become floating cities. Most of them will be positioned along the equator, where the temperature difference is the greatest, and where hurricanes don't cross. Of course, many platforms will be in hurricane formation zones, and the drop of ocean surface temperatures by a degree or two can eliminate the formation of these ocean storms. And much of the ocean can be utilized for these purposes:</div>
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Let us say, then, that ocean cities and Disneys-at-Sea someday become significant, how exactly will global warming be remediated? For now, take my word that there is promise. Not conventional snake oil, I have evidence in the next paragraph</div>
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The French invented OTEC (<i>to the right, Jacques-Arsene d'Arsonval</i>). Here are two French sources I co-authored, providing intriguing insights:</div>
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<li><b><i><a href="http://www.clubdesargonautes.org/energie/patricktakahashi.pdf">Energy from the Sea: The Potential and Realities of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion</a></i></b></li>
<li><b><i><a href="http://www.clubdesargonautes.org/otec/vol/vol8-4-1.htm">Artificial Upwelling for Environmental Enhancement</a></i></b></li>
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For decades, our team has hinted that a sum of $1.5 billion was necessary to kick-start the Blue Revolution. This will get you a floating platform, possibly powered by a 10MW OTEC facility, supporting an array of experiments to develop sustainable co-products. At least, at this cost, perhaps an enterprising billionaire seeking a legacy could be found to lead the effort.</div>
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The reality is that something closer to $150 billion will be required to support a full industrial park with a 1000 MW OTEC plant. If the first system makes money, more will be built. After all, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia-class_submarine">Navy has proposed a Columbia-class nuclear submarine force</a> estimated to have a lifecycle cost of $347 billion. What a $150 billion tab does is eliminate a simple billionaire, for even Jeff Bezos only has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/jeff-bezos-will-still-be-the-richest-man-in-the-world-after-his-divorce-even-though-mackenzie-bezos-is-keeping-25-of-the-amazon-shares/articleshow/68731292.cms">$131 billion</a>. But what an opportunity to save the Planet while making money.<br />
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No question that this military expense will improve our national fighting-ship. But why, for we always annually spend more for war than the next seven nations put together. Well, <a href="https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2018/apr/24/bernie-sanders/sanders-says-us-military-spending-bigger-next-12-n/">Bernie Sanders</a> has said that the correct answer is 12 countries, but certainly somewhere in between those numbers. Perhaps Bernie has special info, for the estimated U.S. military spending from 1 October 2019 to 20 September 2020 shows our country spending more on defense than the <a href="https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-challenges-growth-3306320">next NINE countries, combined</a>.<br />
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$150 billion Blue Revolution platform (<i>to the left, actually, is something from the Seasteading Institute</i>) will be step one to solve our looming global warming problem. Why? Each will turn a healthy profit, while remediating climate change. The more money they make, the more they will be built. After all, remember how expensive both the Manhattan and Apollo Projects were? <a href="http://capitalenergy.biz/?p=18991">Well:</a></div>
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WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-28743098420364358182018-03-08T10:45:00.000-08:002018-03-08T10:45:13.318-08:00FORBES 2018 BILLIONAIRES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Like opening day for Major League Baseball, announcement of the latest <a href="https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/#c1bdf4a251c7"><b><i>Forbes</i></b> list of billionaires</a> is among my annual highlights, and this is their 37th. Why? <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-blue-revolution-wantedimaginative.html">We need a billionaire for the <b><span style="color: blue;">Blue Revolution</span></b></a>.<br />
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<li>baseball begins on Thursday, March 29, the earliest in history</li>
<li>ALL teams will open on that day, the first time since 1968</li>
<li>the final day is September 30</li>
<li>I've already signed up for two CDM fantasy teams, and will add a few more of the ESPN variety</li>
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The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/11/business/forbes-s-hunt-for-richest-400.html">first list in 1982 only had 13 billionaires</a>, and who remembers #1 was Daniel Keith Ludwig <i>(first supertanker</i>) at $2 billion? Of the top 100, 89 made their fortune in oil. Warren Buffet was worth a quarter-billion, or $250 million. Jeff Bezos was 18 and on his way to Princeton, while Bill Gates was 27 and Microsoft had not yet introduced Office.<br />
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From those relatively humble beginnings, the 2018 <b><i>Forbes</i></b> list has 2,208 billionaires worth $9.1 trillion: (<i>in billions, and some with family</i>)<br />
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<li>#1 Jeff Bezos $112</li>
<li>#2 Bill Gates $ 91</li>
<li>#3 Warren Buffet $ 88</li>
<li>#4 Bernald Arnault $ 75 (<i>Louis Vuitton/Christian Dior</i>)</li>
<li>#5 Mark Zukerberg $ 72</li>
<li>#6 Amancio Ortega $ 66 (<i>Zara/richest European</i>)</li>
<li>#7 Carlos Slim Helu $ 69 (<i>Mexico</i>)</li>
<li>#8 Charles Koch $ 61</li>
<li>#9 David Koch $ 61 (<i>yes, the brothers combined are </i></li>
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<li>#10 Larry Ellison $ 59</li>
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Alice Walton is the richest female at $46 billion, and there are 256 woman billionaires. I always thought of that inspired billionaire being a man. Clearly, I need to adjust my attitude. How many of you knew that <a href="https://www.internationalwomensday.com/">TODAY is International Women's Day?</a></div>
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Bezos is less than a factor of ten from becoming a trillionaire. Again, I must further broaden the scope of the Blue Revolution Angel to include those <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/3/billionaires-could-become-trillionaires-young-and-/">destined to become the first trillionaire</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/trillionaire-list-timeline-worlds-richest-people-hit-trillion-dollar-mark-2552573/">Clarendon came up with 20 potential trillionaires</a>. Some are really too old already. However:<br />
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<li>Jeff Bezos could attain trillionaire status in 2023 at the age of 59</li>
<li>Mark Zukerberg is pegged for 2030 at the age of 45</li>
<li>Larry Ellison needs to live to 2034 when he will be 89</li>
<li>Bill Gates, 2035, 79</li>
<li>Michael Bloomberg, 2035, 93</li>
<li>Larry Page, 2040, 67</li>
<li>Sergey Brin, 2040, 67</li>
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WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-3175900107910474822018-02-15T17:49:00.000-08:002018-02-16T21:19:37.009-08:00THE BLUE REVOLUTION: Wanted...Imaginative Mega-Billionaire!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Big Bang, if there was one, created our Universe, and for nearly 14 billion years, stars, planets and life were created, while in sequence, pretty much at random. It is said there might be a <a href="https://www.space.com/26078-how-many-stars-are-there.html">septillion stars out there</a>, which is 1 followed by 24 zeroes, or a trillion trillion. Yet, we might well be the only life form anywhere. Until we get obviously alien signals (<i>flying saucers are pure fantasy</i>) confirmed to be real, we are the only intelligence. Next, maybe robots and artificial intelligence, but those won't be developed unless humans perfect them.</div>
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Life is tough, for forming only a little more than <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_history_of_life">300 million years after Planet Earth appeared 4.6 billion years ago</a>, of the more than five billion species, 99% are now extinct. Evolution and extinctions resulted in hominins (<i>our earliest ancestors</i>) perhaps 6.5 million years ago. Mammoths only appeared 4.8 million years ago. The first <i>Homo</i> genus came as long as 2 million years ago, with us, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution"><i>Homo sapiens</i>, possibly 200,000 years ago</a>, but these dates keep changing.</div>
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BBC has an excellent video of the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/earth/bespoke/story/20150123-earths-25-biggest-turning-points/">25 biggest turning points in our history</a>, ending with the advent of Man, so let me move ahead to 2000 years ago with Jesus Christ, while new technology like light begun to come two centuries in the past. <a href="https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2016/01/12/whats-the-most-common-animal-species/">We now have</a> 7.6 billion people and 19 billion chickens, but we are exceeded by maybe 100 billion rodents. These numbers pale to the 200 trillion 3-inch <a href="https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2016/01/12/whats-the-most-common-animal-species/">bristlemouth fish</a> living at the bottom of the ocean.</div>
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Many of us have problems with ants, and now you know why. There are a <a href="https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2016/01/12/whats-the-most-common-animal-species/">septillion of them</a>. Again 1 followed by 24 zeroes. There are more bacteria in a gram of dental plaque than all the people who have ever lived. We can go on and on, but let us end by saying that there are 1 followed by <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro2644">31 zeroes worth of viruses</a>, and placed end to end (<i>and you can imagine how small they are</i>) you wouldn't be able to guess how far they would stretch. We'll tell you anyway, 100 million light years, just about the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy. But viruses aren't alive, are they?</div>
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By now you should be impressed about life on Planet Earth anyway. So what has all this to do with the Blue Revolution? Well, Humanity is at the threshold of ruining our world with global warming and not particularly liking each other to boot.</div>
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The solution? The Blue Revolution. Here is a future that will only happen if the world gets together and proceeds to develop OTEC, using this technology to power floating cities and industrial parks, while producing sustainable energy and resources, plus remediating climate change and minimizing tropical storms.</div>
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The Apollo Project was indeed a giant leap for mankind, and came in with an initial budget of $25.4 billion 55 years ago. Today, the value is $200 billion. But the USA chose to go to the Moon by 1969 mainly for political reasons. We were concerned about the Soviet Union, and this decision helped to bankrupt our adversary, ending the Cold War two decades later.<br />
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The Blue Revolution does not have the glamour of the Mars Project. There is a range of cost estimates, but <a href="http://spacenews.com/op-ed-mars-for-only-1-5-trillion/">$1.5 trillion</a> sounds about right to get to that enigmatic globe. Elon Musk says he can do it cheaper and earlier.<br />
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Some mention <a href="http://deepspaceindustries.com/">space mining</a>. But for what mineral? Others point to <a href="https://futurism.com/stephen-hawking-humanity-only-has-100-years-left-on-earth-before-doomsday/">Stephen Hawking's prediction</a> that we only have a century left before something terrible happens on Planet Earth. <b><i><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/5-undeniable-reasons-why-humans-should-go-to-mars-2015-4">Business Inside</a></i></b>r reports on five reasons why we need to colonize Mars now:</div>
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<li>Ensure survival of our species. (<i>Asteroids? Far-fetched. The last serious impact was 66 million years ago when the dinosaurs died off</i>. <i>We are supposedly now in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/12/earth-is-on-its-way-to-the-biggest-mass-extinction-since-the-dinosaurs-scientists-warn/?utm_term=.5865f25b3b08">serious sixth extinction event</a>, but I can't get too excited about the lethality</i>.)</li>
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<li>Discover life on Mars. (<i>We have failed so far with remote instrumentation, but if life is found, so what?</i>)</li>
<li>Improve quality of life on Earth (<i>I miss this point</i>).</li>
<li>Growing as a species. (<i>Huh? Going to Mars is an awfully expensive way to grow-up, in fact, sounds irresponsible to me</i>.)</li>
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Mind you, one of us once worked for NASA's Ames Research Center on the <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2009/11/chapter-4-seeking-lightseti-part-2.html">Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence</a>, and we all are fans of space. We should continue much of the scientific activity, and more, really. Someday, of course, we almost surely might need to send pioneers to other worlds. But the timing is not now. In a millennium, maybe, but more probably closer to a million years when we have mastered <a href="https://www.space.com/28000-physicist-kip-thorne-wildest-theories.html">travel through wormholes</a>, if that is ever achieved.</div>
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The 2017 Forbes billionaires list numbered 2043. Their <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2017/03/20/forbes-2017-billionaires-list-meet-the-richest-people-on-the-planet/#82c8d262ff06">total net worth was $7.67 trillion</a>. Bill Gates has been #1 for 18 of the past 23 years and Jeff Bezos, who is now #3, added $27.6 billion in one year. Mainland China had 76 newly recognized billionaires. Click on <a href="https://ibluer.blogspot.com/">iBlue Revolution</a> to review a history of analyses regarding billionaires and the Blue Revolution. To quote one posting:</div>
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<b><b><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 13.2px; text-size-adjust: auto;">In any case, you don't just go up to a billionaire and ask for money. You need that key connection, compelling vision and fundamental link to a special passion. Most desire to help the downtrodden, prevent diseases and reverse poverty. Surely, among the 2000 psyches there just has to be a particular enlightened individual dedicated to Planet Earth, wishing for something extraordinary to provide some key commodities in harmony with the natural environment. For only $1.5 billion--one percent the cost of the International Space Station, a $150 billion space adventure that meant well, but will </span><a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2389241,00.asp" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;">crash into oblivion in the Year 2020</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 13.2px; text-size-adjust: auto;">--the </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 13.2px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-takahashi/blue-revolution_b_166977.html" style="color: #888888;">Blue Revolution</a></span></span></i></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 13.2px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><i> represents the next economic frontier for Humanity to generate a cornucopia of sustainable products while enhancing our environment</i></b>.</span></b><br />
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All things considered, then, Hawaii would be the perfect spot to build and test the Pacific Ocean International Station because we have succeeded in more workable OTEC experiments than anyone else, have a thriving Natural Energy Laboratory Laboratory Authority to provide expertise and have chaired more conferences and workshops on related subjects. As mentioned two days ago we already have billionaires with close association to this 50th State with ideal names:</div>
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We can add a third: <b>P</b>acific <b>O</b>cean <b>S</b>teve Case or POS Case, a stretch, but there no doubt are others. We would welcome someone from Japan, China or anywhere else. Most important is that sincere drive to consider the ocean as the solution for Humanity and Planet Earth. </div>
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Anyone reading this posting linked to a potential mega-supporter, please contact <a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/">Blue Revolution Hawaii</a>. Three coordinators are co-authoring a presentation on the Blue Revolution at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas next week:<br />
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<li>Benny Ron (<i>right</i>, <i>TetsuzanBennyRon@gmail.com</i>) originally from Israel with a special zen association in Japan, is marshaling the session, and</li>
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<li><b><i><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-ultimate-ocean-ranch_b_146192.html">The Ultimate Ocean Ranch</a></i></b></li>
<li><b><i><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blue-revolution_b_166977.html">Blue Revolution</a></i></b></li>
<li><b><i><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-blue-revolution-is-th_b_865378.html">The Blue Revolution is the Optimal Solution for Japan</a></i></b></li>
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Here is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFBbq4s_tHU">20-minute clip</a> from a gathering hosted by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading">Seasteading Institute</a> (<i>SI</i>) in San Francisco, providing further details on the Blue Revolution, and, in particular, the <a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/2012/06/pacific-international-ocean-station.html">Pacific International Ocean Station</a>, proposed by <a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/">Blue Revolution Hawaii</a>. SI recently hosted a <a href="https://www.seasteading.org/tahiti-seasteading-gathering-2017/">conference in Tahiti</a> and has found another partner in this French colony.</div>
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Joe Quirk moderates an excellent summary of what is becoming the Blue Revolution. You spend hours/day watching television. In a fraction of that time, by clicking on what he has titled, <a href="https://www.seasteading.org/videos/the-eight-great-moral-imperatives/">The Eight Great Moral Imperatives</a>, you, too, can become a Blue Revolution Pioneer. Joe also recently published a book:</div>
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<b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Seasteading-Floating-Environment-Liberate-Politicians/dp/1451699263/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">SEASTEADING: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure</a> </i></b><b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Seasteading-Floating-Environment-Liberate-Politicians/dp/1451699263/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">the </a></i></b><b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Seasteading-Floating-Environment-Liberate-Politicians/dp/1451699263/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians</a></i></b></div>
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The Seasteading Institute, founded by Patri Friedman and Wayne Gramlich, with funding by Peter Thiel, is leading the way towards a future of seaborne platforms in international waters. They believe this future is now, and the effort should be entrepreneurial.</div>
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Blue Revolution Hawaii, working with SI, is using a more traditional strategy, with plans to design, build and operate a developmental floating city to best determine future marine economies and technologies. We have already <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2015/08/progress-on-blue-revolution.html">secured an endowment for the University of Hawaii</a> to initiate the program. While we, too, seek governmental and industrial funding to carry out this mission, we most seek an imaginative and dedicated billionaire to gain a legacy as the founder of the Blue Revolution, for the initial project, the Pacific International Ocean Station (<i>PIOS</i>), is anticipated to cost $1.5 billion<br />
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So what am I doing to stimulate progress for the Blue Revolution? Well, for one, I am responsible for that <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2015/08/progress-on-blue-revolution.html">endowment to the University of Hawaii</a>, and a post-doc from Nihon University is soon to arrive to help initiate some research. I recently gave several speeches touching on this topic:</div>
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While not yet organized as a real Blue Revolution activity, you can nevertheless from January of 2020 <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2016/01/global-cruise-2018-any-interest.html">join me for a World Cruise</a>. Hopefully, Tadashi and Mayumi Matsunaga will be on board, for he was the one who stimulated this fantasy. You can even help us select the cruise line:</div>
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Crystal for $30,955 could well be the Blue Revolution ship of choice. Four months to cruise the world:</div>
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That itinerary is for 2018, so by 2020 maybe Crystal will truly go around the world...and probably cost more. That is currently my problem, as these global journeys only feature cabins for two people. I can barely afford myself, so a companion needs to be able to absorb her own cost. Better yet, perhaps I'll find someone who could help subsidize my fare. Amazingly enough, there are a few potential candidates who have progressed through either step two (<i>join me for lunch or dinner so we can talk about it</i>) or step three (<i>a short cruise to determine if we are compatible</i>). Step one is just contact me. Still searching for the perfect prospect, and some decision needs to be made by next year.</div>
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The key requirement for the Blue Revolution is to find that second billionaire (<i>SI has Peter Thiel</i>), or team of them, visionaries emboldened to develop the pathway for Humanity to ensure for a sustainable Planet Earth. The sea around us is the most sensible and affordable setting to advance this cause, and the endeavor will only be attained with the right leadership and inspiration.<br />
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WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-78730849313932122672016-07-12T19:24:00.000-07:002016-07-13T11:08:48.573-07:00IS THERE A BILLIONAIRE IN YOUR FUTURE?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I long ago came to a conclusion that the government and corporate sectors of our community just do not have the imagination and resources to fund visionary pathways for Humanity. Something like the <a href="http://ibluer.blogspot.com/">Blue Revolution</a>, for example, needs enlightened billionaires searching for their legacy. Surely, out there is one with a blue dream. How do you interest one in supporting your cause? Read on.</div>
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The latest <a href="http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:static">Forbes billionaires</a> list shows eight from the U.S. in the top ten, with Bill Gates #1 at $75 billion, and brothers Charles (<i>on the right)</i> and David Koch at #9 and #10 with a total of $79.2 billion. The brothers, incidentally, financed the Tea Party takeover of the GOP and are considered to be the most important Republicans in the country. However, because of their disdain for Donald Trump, the Kochs decided to <a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/05/17/the_powerless_brokers_trumps_got_the_koch_brothers_running_away_from_the_general_election_and_leaving_their_billions_at_home/">delete their nearly billion dollar campaign funds</a> from national politics. Charles, gasp, actually intimated that he <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/24/politics/charles-koch-hillary-clinton-2016/">could well support Hillary Clinton</a>.</div>
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The number of billionaires dropped from 1,826 last year to 1810 in 2016. They have a total net worth of $6.5 trillion. <a href="http://www.wealthx.com/articles/2016/wealth-x-reveals-the-worlds-50-wealthiest-people/">Wealth-X</a> earlier this year named the 50 wealthiest people:</div>
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The details differ among the six organizations doing these billionaire surveys, as one might report a list of 1,810, and another 2,400 (<i>Wealth-X</i>). Wealth-X alone has a staff of 250 in 10 global centers mostly focusing on wealth intelligence. In any case, according to Caroline Feund of the Peterson Institute for International Economics: <i>A best estimate is better than no estimate with wealth</i>. <br />
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If you have a campaign to tap one of them, start with some <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/business/billionaire-lists-are-battling-to-feed-a-hunger-for-rankings.html?_r=0">universal information:</a></div>
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In any case, you don't just go up to a billionaire and ask for money. You need that key connection, compelling vision and fundamental link to a special passion. Most desire to help the downtrodden, prevent diseases and reverse poverty. Surely, among the 2000 psyches there just has to be a particular enlightened individual dedicated to Planet Earth, wishing for something extraordinary to provide some key commodities in harmony with the natural environment. For only $1.5 billion--one percent the cost of the International Space Station, a $150 billion space adventure that meant well, but will <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2389241,00.asp">crash into oblivion in the Year 2020</a>--the <b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-takahashi/blue-revolution_b_166977.html">Blue Revolution</a></span></b> represents the next economic frontier for Humanity to generate a cornucopia of sustainable products while enhancing our environment.</div>
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WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-34429850915327466492013-12-09T21:28:00.001-08:002014-09-11T18:44:16.039-07:00THE POWER OF BILLIONAIRES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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However, there is this gap between research and commercialization that remains hazy. Japan supported business conglomerates (<i>this all started with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaibatsu"><span style="color: purple;">zaibatsus</span></a> and morphed into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu"><span style="color: purple;">keiretsus</span></a></i>) with funds and other incentives, going back to the Edo period when Sumitomo and Mitsui began, followed by Mitsubishi during the Meiji Restoration. You will see the same companies teaming on major projects around the world.<br />
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The United States is particularly effective when threatened. We had to do something about Hitler and his possible Atomic Bomb, so we invented the Manhattan Project, <a href="http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/05/17/the-price-of-the-manhattan-project/"><span style="color: purple;">spent $30 billion</span></a> (<i>really, only $2 billion then</i>) just on the Bomb and won the Second World War. <br />
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Twenty years later, the Cold War and the Soviet Union inspired President John F. Kennedy to support the Apollo Project. Sending Man to the Moon cost us <a href="http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/cost-of-apollo-program"><span style="color: #bf9000;">$100 billion</span></a> (<i>$25 billion then</i>). <br />
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In a how dumb can you get effort, George the Younger Bush wasted <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Trillion-Dollar-War/dp/B0052HKS0S"><span style="color: red;">$3 trillion</span></a> (<i>that's $3,000 billion</i>) on terrorists! Only government can squander so much money so quickly.<br />
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All the above is backdrop to the next phase of future economic development. The American and European governments show little interest today in doing anything inspirational. <b>There is a perceptible shift to the power of billionaires, who have no one to answer to than their emotions.</b><br />
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<b><i><a href="http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/"><span style="color: blue;">Forbes</span></a></i></b> has an annual issue on billionaires, and on the latest cover <i>(above</i>) is 6' 8" Mikhail Prokorov, only #69 with a net worth of $13 billion, but he owns the NBA Brooklyn Nets and could well become the next president of Russia. Here is their map:<br />
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In 1916, John Davison Rockefeller became the first American billionaire. The top five billionaires today are:<br />
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<b> #1 Carlos Slim Helu $73 billion telecom Mexico</b><br />
<b> #2 Bill Gates $67 billion Microsoft U.S.</b><br />
<b> #3 Amancio Ortega $57 billion Zara Spain</b><br />
<b> #4 Warren Buffett $54 billion Berkshire U.S.</b><br />
<b> #5 Larry Ellison $43 billion Oracle U.S.</b><br />
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There are 1426 billionaires worth $5.4 trillion. The USA has the most, 422, worth $1.87 trillion, with Asia Pacific next at 386 and Europe #3 with 366.<br />
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<a href="http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/25-richest-people-lived-inflation-adjusted/"><span style="color: magenta;">How would they compare in history?</span></a> Inflation adjusted, not that well, actually:<br />
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<li style="color: #333333; list-style: square !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>#2 The Rothschild Family – $350 Billion</b></li>
<li style="color: #333333; list-style: square !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>#3 John D. Rockefeller – $340 Billion</b></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; list-style: square !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>#7 William The Conqueror – $229.5 Billion</b></li>
<li style="color: #333333; list-style: square !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>#8 Muammar Gaddafi – $200 Billion</b></li>
<li style="color: #333333; list-style: square !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>#9 Henry Ford – $199 Billion</b></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; list-style: square !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>#11 Alan Rufus – $178.65 billion</b></li>
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However, these mega-wealthy today are, really, the only hope for out of the box monumental efforts to save Planet Earth and Humanity.<br />
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I have a special fascination for billionaires because I see no way the state of Hawaii can overcome our handicaps without a close partnership with a few of them. Fortunately, several have homes here, including #5, Larry Ellison, who recently purchased the island of Lanai. Plus, there are 386 more in the Asia Pacific region. In the past I posted on <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-can-university-of-hawaii-do-to.html">how the <span style="color: red;">University of Hawaii can become grea</span></a><span style="color: red;">t and our <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2012/11/why-renewable-energy-is-so-slow-to.html">one chance at bootstrapping our economy into prosperity</a> with the proposed <a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/2012/06/pacific-international-ocean-station.html">Pacific International Ocean Station</a></span>, advocated by <a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/">Blue Revolution Hawaii</a>. As the end of the Cold War ended our need to spend billions in outer space, the ocean has become our next frontier challenge, and a few inspired billionaires can make the difference for ultimate economic/environmental progress.<br />
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THIS POSTING IS LINKED TO <span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/">Blue Revolution Hawaii</a>,</b></span> a blog site dedicated to developing the <b><a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/2012/06/pacific-international-ocean-station.html"><span style="color: blue;">Pacific International Ocean Station</span></a></b>.</div>
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WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-23767035249497405342013-09-24T21:49:00.000-07:002013-09-25T19:47:45.192-07:00GOOGLE, CHINA AND BILLIONAIRES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have now identified three distinct entities capable of funding the <a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/2012/06/pacific-international-ocean-station.html"><span style="color: blue;">Pacific International Ocean Station</span></a>:<br />
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The current issue of <i><b>TIME</b></i> magazine (<i>30September13</i>) has a cover article entitled, <a href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2152422,00.html"><span style="color: purple;">The Audacity of Google</span></a>: <a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2013/01/ff-qa-larry-page/all/"><b><span style="color: magenta;">Larry Page</span></b></a> and the Art of the Moonshot. This has nothing to do with space adventures, but, instead, according to the co-founder and CEO:</div>
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<b><i>...we should be spending a commensurate amount with what normal types of companies spend on research and development and spend it on things that are a little more long term and a little more ambitious than people normally would. More like moonshots.</i></b></div>
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Bill Gates</span></a></h3>
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</span></a></td><td class="worth" style="border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: bold; height: 60px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 8px 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 95px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">$67 B</span></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: Georgia; height: 60px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 8px 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 85px;"><br /></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: Georgia; height: 60px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 8px 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 85px;"><br /></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: Georgia; height: 60px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 8px 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 85px;"><br /></td></tr>
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Amancio Ortega</span></a></h3>
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Warren Buffett</span></a></h3>
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Larry Ellison</span></a></h3>
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Google has a cash stockpile of $54 billion, which would place it as #4. </div>
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The key to this fund is Google X, a secret facility overseen by Sergey Brin (<i>left--most of his wealth remains in Google, but he has already sold $3.6 billion of Google stocks</i>), one of the co-founders, currently overseeing 100 projects on future technologies. One of them is <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/google-x-makani-power-airborne-wind-turbine/27668/"><span style="color: blue;">Makani Power</span>,</a> a company using tethered kites with wind turbines at 1000 feet. Two years ago, Google invested <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/google-invests-168-million-in-solar-power-tower/18383/"><span style="color: blue;">$168 million</span></a> on the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, so the firm is green in philosophy. No nuclear or coal futures, best as I can figure out.</div>
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How can any of these renewable projects compare to the <a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/2012/06/pacific-international-ocean-station.html"><span style="color: blue;">Pacific International Ocean Station</span></a>, a proposed $1.5 billion (<i><a href="http://www.industrytap.com/150-billion-international-space-station-destined-for-fiery-return-to-earth-in-2025/2344"><span style="color: blue;">ONE percent the cost of the International Space Station</span></a>--right</i>) open ocean platform with a mission to:</div>
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<li>in a manner which would harmonize development with marine environmental enhancement</li>
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<li>minimize hurricanes</li>
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<li>produce a cornucopia of sustainable products</li>
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<li>electricity</li>
<li>freshwater</li>
<li>next generation fisheries</li>
<li>marine biomass plantation</li>
<li>future of farming (<i>the world is nearing peak phosphate, and deep ocean effluents offer the best hope for sustaining food production</i>)</li>
<li>green chemicals and materials</li>
<li>biofuels</li>
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<li>while offering promise for Disney-at-Sea, marine industrial parks and floating cities.</li>
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Alas, I have no connection to Larry Page nor Sergey Brin, except that we all went to Stanford University. Captain of Moonshots at Google X is <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/astro-teller-google-x-2013-9"><span style="color: blue;">Astro</span></a> (<i>below, formerly known as Eric</i>) Teller. However, I also don't know him, although I did work for his paternal grandfather, Edward Teller, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:<br />
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Anyone of noteworthiness reading this posting, please kindly forward to your contact at Google X. Mahalo. <br />
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INCIDENTALLY, I HAVE A COROLLARY POSTING ABOUT GOOGLE AND IMMORTALITY IN MY OTHER BLOG ON <b><i>PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY</i></b>. CLICK ON:<br />
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<b><i><a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2013/09/will-google-be-able-to-commercialize.html">Will Google be able to Commercialize Eternal Life?</a></i></b></div>
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WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-79668996017161739772013-08-16T20:05:00.000-07:002013-08-16T20:31:20.269-07:00B612 COULD SAVE HUMANITY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last night, former astronaut, Ed Lu (<i>here</i> <i>with Leighton Chong and Benny Ron</i>), provided the third of Sheraton Waikiki's lecture series with the Institute for Astronomy at the University Hawaii in Kennedy Theatre on Astronomy Saves the World: Protecting the Planet from Asteroid Impacts. As a former employee of NASA at the Ames Research Center, it is no big secret about my attitude towards space:</div>
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<li>NASA was absolutely essential for Project Apollo, which helped bankrupt the Soviet Union</li>
<li>The price tag was $25.4 billion, which today could well be worth up to $300 billion</li>
<li>Certainly, the cost was well worth it to help end the Cold War</li>
<li>NASA remains important to develop space-bio sciences to stimulate the imagination of the coming generations</li>
<li>However, the end of the Cold War made NASA obsolete as a hardware/systems organization, for the expenditure of many billions on irrational attempts to reach Mars, and similar misadventures are beyond the pale--these could well someday be necessary, but probably centuries or milllennia into the future</li>
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The B612 (<i>named after the home of the Little Prince from Le Petit Prince</i>) Foundation has proposed to undertake the tougher mission, step one. However, the cost should only be around half a billion dollars. Money is regularly raised by civic organizations across the country at these sums just to add a wing to an art museum. Surely, there must be a billionaire or two willing to provide the funds to save humanity.</div>
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Over the next hundred years, if no precautions are taken, there will be a 30% chance that an asteroid, if it strikes a city, could wipe it out. Of course, the odds are low that this space rock will hit a city, but it's possible. The <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event">1908 Tunguska even</a>t</span> over Russia was a 200-600 foot wide asteroid (<i>which did not actually impact our planet--it exploded at an elevation of 2-6 miles</i>). This is another reason why you don't actually see too many monumental craters on land. We have detected maybe 1% of the asteroids this large. <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event">Project Sentinel</a> </span>(<i>right</i>) will find them.</div>
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There is a 0.001% chance that an asteroid ten times the diameter (<i>say 2/3 of a mile</i>) could impact Planet Earth. This would permanently eliminate humanity. Somewhere in between is that "medium" sized cataclysm that could kill 100 million people. This one is at a scary 1% probability. Most of us have fire insurance for similar probabilities. But there is no current insurance for this killer asteroid threat. Thus, the B612 Foundation was created.</div>
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It was a <a href="http://b612foundation.org/our-story/"><span style="color: purple;">dozen years ago</span></a> that Ed Lu and Piet Hut brought together 20 space experts at the Johnson Space Center to discuss the concept. A year later, B612 was formed. They now have secured $20 million and have a launch date of 2018. In many ways, <a href="http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Blue Revolution Hawaii</span></a> is, then, well on track to gain similar funding, for our founders first met three years ago and formed this 501 c3 nonprofit organization a little more than two years ago. If we follow their timeline, our Blue Revolution plant ship should become operational around 2025. However, I'm impatient, and would like this monumental event to happen in the Year 2020.</div>
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WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-73878824174708502892013-07-31T15:28:00.000-07:002013-07-31T15:36:20.167-07:00TROPOS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My good friend from Norway,<span style="background-color: lime;"> </span><a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2012/11/colonization-of-ocean.html"><span style="background-color: lime;">Lars Golmen</span>,</a> commented on my previous posting about Kon-Tiki (<i>Thor Hyerdahl is also from Norway</i>), and suggested I write about <a href="http://www.troposplatform.eu/tropos-european-collaborative-project/What-is-Tropos-for"><span style="color: blue;">TROPOS</span></a>, a nearly $20 million European partnership to explore the potential of offshore multi-use platforms. It was nearly two decades ago when I presented<a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2012/11/colonization-of-ocean.html"> <span style="color: red;">"Colonization of the Open Ocean</span>"</a> at an international oceanographic conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. I said:</div>
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<i>European countries more than half a millennium ago conquered the world for their needs, and there were terrible human implications. However, in the open ocean today is the final global frontier for economic development. No one really owns these waters and no existing populations will be impacted. In fact, there might even be opportunities to <a href="http://www.clubdesargonautes.org/otec/vol/vol8-4-1.htm" style="cursor: pointer; line-height: 17px;" target="_blank">enhance the environment</a>, as global climate change can be remediated and hurricane formation can be prevente</i>d<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">.</span></div>
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The TROPOS foci are transport, energy, aquaculture and leisure. <span style="color: #741b47;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jjhbrito">Jose Joaquin Hernandez Brito</a> </span>of Las Palmas, Canary Islands, is the Managing Director. (This gives me a second reason for visiting this island, for my Chapter 5 of <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Solutions-For-Planet-Earth/dp/143432754X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375309236&sr=8-1&keywords=simple+solutions+for+planet+earth"><span style="color: magenta;">SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth</span></a></i></b> features<span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2008/09/hawaii-challenge-to-la-palma-part-6.html">Las Palmas</a></span>). </div>
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If you participated in Oceans 2013 in Bergen, you would have learned the full scope of the plans. For now, just click on all the above links to gain a sense of how the European Union is progressing on the Blue Revolution. An excellent PowerPoint presentation can be found by clicking on <a href="http://www.wavec.org/content/files/Sessao_III_4_Eduardo_Quevedo.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">The TROPOS Project</span></a>. (IN CASE IT WASN'T OBVIOUS, THOSE COLORED ENTRIES ARE GENERALLY LINKS.) The EU is far ahead of Japan, China and USA in advancing this final Planet Earth frontier for economic opportunity.</div>
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WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-54592917687101798612013-07-01T13:43:00.002-07:002013-07-01T13:46:53.125-07:00KON-TIKI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,7061,00.html/#/photoessay/image/0417091136_M_movies_jaws2_450-jpg">Fox News</a> has a list of 10 greatest ocean adventure movies. Most were fictitious, such as <b><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qtWzbDgIQE">20,000 Leagues Under the Sea</a></i></b>, and there was one real disaster (<b><i><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-shocker-titanic-3d-china-leonardo-dicaprio-kate-winslet-312267">Titanic</a></i></b>), which returned this year in 3D.</div>
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I was thus inspired by the latest movie on <b><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97XrASFPhF0">Kon-Tiki</a></i></b>, which covers the real-life dream of Thor Heyerdahl, when in 1947 he overcame huge doubts and challenges to sail for 101 days a distance of 5,000 miles on a balsa raft with a dedicated crew of four Norwegians and one Swede from Peru to French Polynesia, constantly being followed by sharks, which served as food. Only the President of Peru, Jose Luis Bustamente y Rivero, was particularly helpful. The U.S. Navy predicted he would never get there. The Norwegian documentary, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWZnY7oqcgc"><i>Kon-Tiki</i> (1950)</a>, won the 1951 Oscar for documentary films, the only such award to any movie product from Norway. By clicking on it, you watch the entire nearly hour-long movie, an excellent background piece before seeing the current version.</div>
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Heyerdahl's contention that Polynesia was populated by settlers from South America never gained anthropological acceptance. More recently, mitochondrial DNA indicated that the migration was mostly from the West (<i>Asia</i>). However, there are elements of Polynesian culture that no doubt were influenced from the East and there is now added genetic testing that suggests there certainly were some Eastern input. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl">Kon-Tiki was an Incan Sun-God</a>, who might have been white, and left Peru only to avoid a total massacre. </div>
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Over 87 years, Heyerdahl lived quite a life, with three wives, selling 100 million copies of his book on this adventure, widely representing the United Nations, and sailing in a papyrus reed boat across the Atlantic. Maybe more than anything else, he inspired countless youths about the ocean. Including me.</div>
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WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14935710257177137758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5768317398472027923.post-6402980714659064952013-06-06T19:32:00.000-07:002014-09-11T19:01:56.182-07:00THE BEGINNING OF THE BLUE REVOLUTION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;">iBlue Revolution, is an internet support group to promote the development of multi-purpose marine industrial platforms to initiate the Blue Revolution (<i><a href="http://planetearthandhumanity.blogspot.com/2011/09/blue-revolution-is-optimal-solution-for.html">Shimuzu's concept</a> to the right</i>). The "i" is symbolic of the virtual reality characterizing this organization. We will not:</span></span></div>
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