Rick's Blog (9)

LibertyIsGreen.com Wants You to Know that Doug Selsam's Yankee Ingenuity Secures Blessings that Flow From Liberty

www.Selsam.com Energy. Independence. Ingenuity. Novelty. Utility. Nonobviousness. Invention. Synchronicity. If these are the stuff of your dreams prepare to be thrilled to the core by Doug Selsam's core business, his invention pipeline for energy (wind and hydrogen) independence at www.Selsam.com where the stuff of his dreams are put on display as they are conceived, reduced to actual practice and built-out for insertion i… Continue

Added by Rick on October 14, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

"How not to die" - article by Yahoo Stores and Ycombinator inventor Paul Graham

How not to die - article by Yahoo Stores and Ycombinator inventor Paul Graham How not to die is a very thought provoking piece in title and concept. Written by Paul Graham, an expert on micro-finance and micro-entrepreneurship, it sounds a clarion call for economic survival in the hardscrabble world of Internet… Continue

Added by Rick on October 9, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

700 Billion Here, 700 Billion There, Pretty Soon You're Talking Real Money

Senator Dirksen may never have uttered the remark famously attributed to him ("A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money") but he is reported to have developed such a fondness for the association that he never publicly denied it. T Boone Pickens' testimony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building about e… Continue

Added by Rick on September 29, 2008 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Natural gas home refueling appliance company FuelMaker bought by Boone

T Boone Pickens has been using this home-fill technology for home refueling with natural gas under low pressure, with no storage (except in the car) to Phill 'er up for the past 20 years. He was so impressed he bought the company! Note that Phill is a certified appliance safe for home CNG (compressed natural gas) refueli… Continue

Added by Rick on September 22, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Nancy Pelosi, John McCain & Barack Obama should take The Pledge

Nancy Pelosi should look at this Keith Olberman segment <= the second video in this post - and take the pledge for sure. I hope Boone gets a Cabinet post in whatever administration gets in. Energy is the driving issue in our economy. If we get it right, everything falls right into place, including finance, peace and prosperity. If you listen to Obama in that video segment which has to do with the "tire inflation" flapdoodle (for m… Continue

Added by Rick on September 19, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Community of Interest Between Solar Updraft Group and Jatropha Group at PickensPlan

Introduction to PickensPlan Jatropha Group: Hello Jatropha Group! Thanks, Sterling, for creating this group, which came to my attention after I joined the Solar Updraft Group and received a friend request from Pat Jack, who belongs to both groups. I operate www.LibertyIsGreen.com which has a beta forum I'm readying for launch that you can view at www.LibertyIsGreen.com/index.php. I also operate the doma… Continue

Added by Rick on September 19, 2008 at 7:18am — 1 Comment

Most every morning of his life Frank Lloyd Wright gazed out from his room upon a windmill

"Romeo and Juliet"presents the history of the Romeo and Juliet Windmill, designed, by Frank Lloyd Wright, as an education symbol for the Hillside Home School, run by his aunts, in the Spring Green, Wisconsin valley, where he was born, raised and knew every contour of the land. It is the landmark to which his gaze was directed on awake… Continue

Added by Rick on September 17, 2008 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

Jatropha - Native American weed now cultivated successfully world wide for bio-diesel

Jatropha, a native North American weed, is being cultivated successfully in Asia and Africa, for bio-diesel. My lay understanding is that it is an efficient process because it grows like a weed and has a lot of bulbous oil pods. Continue

Added by Rick on September 17, 2008 at 11:39am — No Comments

Jobs on the Wind and Solar Grids

Added job search boards to www.LibertyIsGreen.com here and to www.WLAB.com here with links to Indeed.com searches for jobs on the Wind Grid. Some of the more fruitful searches, at present, turn out to be the terms "Wind Algorithm" and "Wind Installation." Similar searches for jobs on the Solar GridSolar are here. Solar roo… Continue

Added by Rick on September 16, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments