Sep 4, 2011

Perhaps President Obama’s full employment plans include an infusion of oil pipeline construction jobs and significant new tax revenues (maybe even targeted to pay off the national debt) collected from the flow of Canadian tar sands oil under U.S. soil. If I were him I would DELAY the Keystone Project permit into next year’s election politics. See...

Feb 6, 2011

This document is an evolving work about a river and a steamboat and lumber man who built a house overlooking the St. Croix River. The St. Croix River rises in the northwestern corner of Wisconsin, out of Upper St. Croix Lake in Douglas County, near Solon Springs, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of Lake Superior. It flows south to Gordon, then southwest....

Jan 31, 2011

I pray that we are giving our collective thanks for the Gift of the replenishment of the snow pack above the Pacific, Great Plains, and Atlantic water tables and watersheds. Hopefully our leaders will see the vision that suitable dams and dikes and levees and permanent overflow canals, ponds, and lakes shall be permanently constructed to handle what Nature...

May 22, 2010

Dear Mr. President, I will be brief. Were the disaster mine to solve I would advise thusly: Let the ground heated warm oil and saltwater rise naturally by convection to the surface inside a sluice tube. Apply the principles of Archimedes. Call in a stream of tanker ships to carry the saltwater and oil laden streams away for land based processing and...

Jan 24, 2010

When all the fuss began about carbon-dioxide causing global warming, Oliver said that, if carbon-dioxide needed to be reduced, we should simply feed it to bacteria. feed excess carbon-dioxide to methanogen bacteria…they eat carbon-dioxide. Oliver explained how hydrogenotrophic bacteria (a sub-species of methanogen bacteria) do indeed bond the carbon from...

Jan 16, 2009

1127 Coal to Liquid Fuel, Plastics, and Concrete This document researches the important topic of the role of coal, as a strategic raw material of America’s destiny. This survey of field work follows the process flow from the inputs of coal, bio-mass, and human waste, through the gasification process, and all the way through to the outputs of pure diesel...