One more visit to OCH, actually because my sister [flickr.com] was visiting and wanted to take some photos. Glad I went because the building seems on the verge of being off limits; there are post holes all around for what appears to be an imminent fencing off. Additionally the whole building has been cleaned out and whitewashed. Not so spooky anymore without the Satanist graffiti.
I have an idea, that needs, oh, about a billion dollars in investment. Which kinda limits me to oil rich gulf state investors… which is a strange coincidence because that’s the audience I would want for this project. See here’s the idea; floating batteries.
Yep. Big assed — the biggest assed — cargo ships or oil tanker ships turned into giant floating batteries. Maybe traditional batteries or maybe hydrogen fuel cells. I don’t know, details need to be worked out by people who know about such things.
What I do know is that I would plug these ships into giant solar plants, producing power directly or to fill up the hydrogen fuel cells depending. These plants would be located in and around the Persian Gulf and North Africa. Once each ship was charged up it would use some of that power to sail to Europe or North America and then plug into the gird.
On the other hand maybe I can get governments involved other then in the gulf; see The Koreans can build/refit the ships, the Japanese can make the batteries, the Spanish can build the solar plants, etc, etc, etc. Additionally local power girds need to be upgraded, “power ports” built. We could drag the whole world out of it’s current economic malaise. And all the governments that sign on could point to how they are reducing the amount of greenhouse gasses with this clean energy. The whole UN climate group — what ever they are called — can coordinate the whole thing.
Outrageous right? Maybe, but the person who does this will be richer than J. D. Rockefeller if it’s done by a private company. But I think the money involved is too much and governments will have to be involved.
Technology is anything that was invented after you were born
Alan Kay, quoted from a TED Talk by Kevin Kelly
Just back from a week in Kyoto. More on gesha watching and copious soba injestion once I get time to sift and edit gigabytes of photos.
Like Newspeak [wikipedia.org] marketing speak is often silly. In this example the subject of the email is:
“Leading Analyst Determines That Collaboration Improves Business”
D’oh! Did someone pay for that research? If so maybe they should get their money back… Of course the inside copy is, while still a bit silly, much less head-smack inducing:
New Research: The Right Collaboration Architecture Drives Business Transformation
That’s not so bad… but the subject is so “no shit Sherlock,” that I only opened this email to make the screen-shot for this post.
Confusion.cc is now running on a new server. It’s been… oh, I don’t know, 4 years since I last upgraded the core server. I was running FC2 (I migrated to FC2 in 2005 because someone hacked the sendmail on my RH9 install). Anyways; all is back up now. More ram, more space, more bandwidth. Looks like everything works. Let me know if you find something FUBAR’ed.
