GOOGLE, CHINA AND BILLIONAIRES

I have now identified three distinct entities capable of funding the Pacific International Ocean Station:

• billionaires
• China and Japan
• Google

The current issue of TIME magazine (30September13) has a cover article entitled, The Audacity of Google:  Larry Page and the Art of the Moonshot.  This has nothing to do with space adventures, but, instead, according to the co-founder and CEO:

...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.

The five richest people in the world are:  

1	Carlos Slim Helu & family	$73 B
2	Bill Gates	$67 B
3	Amancio Ortega	$57 B
4	Warren Buffett	$53.5 B
5	Larry Ellison	$43 B

Google has a cash stockpile of $54 billion, which would place it as #4.  

The key to this fund is Google X, a secret facility overseen by Sergey Brin (left--most of his wealth remains in Google, but he has already sold $3.6 billion of Google stocks), one of the co-founders, currently overseeing 100 projects on future technologies.  One of them is Makani Power, a company  using tethered kites with wind turbines at 1000 feet.  Two years ago, Google invested $168  million 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.

How can any of these renewable projects compare to the Pacific International Ocean Station, a proposed $1.5 billion (ONE percent the cost of the International Space Station--right) open ocean platform with a mission to:

• develop the open ocean as the next economic frontier
• in a manner which would harmonize development with marine environmental enhancement
• remediate global warming
• minimize hurricanes
• produce a cornucopia of sustainable products
• electricity
• freshwater
• next generation fisheries
• marine biomass plantation
• future of farming (the world is nearing peak phosphate, and deep ocean effluents offer the best hope for sustaining food production)
• green chemicals and materials
• biofuels
• hydrogen
• while offering promise for Disney-at-Sea, marine industrial parks and floating cities.

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 Astro (below, formerly known as Eric) Teller.  However, I also don't know him, although I  did  work for his paternal grandfather, Edward Teller, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:

Anyone of noteworthiness reading this posting, please kindly forward to your contact at Google X.  Mahalo.

INCIDENTALLY, I HAVE A COROLLARY POSTING ABOUT GOOGLE AND IMMORTALITY IN MY OTHER BLOG ON PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY.  CLICK ON:

  Will Google be able to Commercialize Eternal Life?

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