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I have been giving thought to what I will do when I am temporarily unemployed (beginning in February and lasting for a few weeks). It is always a little scary having no active contract but I am looking forward to this bench time as an opportunity to invest some free time in preparing a proposal, for what I would like to do with my available supply of time-for-money.

I decided that I would pursue Oliver’s vision and see where that got me. In Oliver’s vision every regional economy of the United States was to be self sufficient in terms of liquid fuel, based upon the steady arrival of the coal trains from eastern Montana. He computed that the entire liquid fuel needs of the United States could be met in this manner for the next four hundred years.

Through a friend Oliver contacted the Governor of Montana who took Oliver’s idea to the people of Montana. Oliver said the people of Montana voted it down because they did not understand the science, mathematics, technology, and economics of the Coal to Oil equation.

I could create an Adobe Flash interactive simulation model of a Coal to Oil Industry product flow based Economy, including the biological systems necessary to process the liquid fuel by-products into a form suitable for human use. Oliver had recommended simulating the system on the scale necessary to sustain 50,000 humans. That seems sensible to me and a whole lot easier to quantify the Economy.

I wrote the following article on this geeky topic.

I shall seek to raise grant funding to produce an Adobe Flash presentation of a Coal to Oil flow system (operating over a temperature gradient) designed to follow the physical chemical roadmap of science and mathematics.

It will follow the continuum of the physical chemical, bio-chemical, biological systems surrounding the flow system that turns coal into coal gas and flyash. The coal gas is the raw material of a traditional oil industry. Biological systems eat the waste products and convert it to a form safe for human life.

This “Coal to Oil” Adobe Flash animation is the highest fulfillment of the vision of Oliver that I am able to personally produce–and I’ll have fun learning the technology necessary to produce this product. Perhaps I’ll find a grant funding source for this project and perhaps I won’t. Who can tell such things beforehand?

The highest fulfillment of Oliver’s vision will be the construction in Billings, Montana or the surrounding area of a full-scale coal to oil plant optimized for the long-term needs of a community of humans sized fifty thousand or so in population.

The Adobe Flash presentation will be interactive in nature and will allow humans to attach notes, facts, anecdotes, and so forth at strategic points within the flow system.

The goal of the animated simulation is that the science be clearly laid out and verifiable in the laboratory. All humans desiring to play a part in the final GO decision will have ample places to participate in the discussion and vote on the individual parts of the overall system.

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