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Ideas
- Generate electric power from piezoelectric crystals supporting the weight of a mountain
- Drill massive V-shaped tubes along coastal areas, reaching down to the hot magma. Pour in salty ocean water, extract clean steam which also powers turbines
- Collect concentrated solar energy with a satellite in close orbit around the sun
- Declare a month-long “National Energy Brainstorm” (NEB) to encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to come up with ideas related to every aspect of energy: production, storage, conservation, distribution, and others.
- Build future cities on massive floating platforms
- Since agriculture is the single biggest cause of deforestation and transformation of natural environments, switch to synthetic foods created by concentrated food factories relying on large scale use of genetic engineering
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Blog
- Advantages of free trade
- The left has been distracted by identity politics for 20 years
- Optimistic view of climate change
- Assholes and success
...much more to come...
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Projects
- mechanical, electronic and software design for cool new invention (PSN)
- me/ee/sw design for DRS
- staying up to date on web-oriented software (Ruby on Rails, etc.)
- development of this website
... more to come...
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Favorite Quotes
- “Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it’s not just a magnet for the curious. It’s a sinkhole for the gullible. It renders everyone an instant expert. You have a degree? Well, I did a Google search!”
- “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed”
- “Optimists may be wrong, but at least they have more fun!”
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did...”
- “Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice and narrow mindedness”
- “Tell a beautiful woman she is intelligent and an intelligent woman she is beautiful”
- “A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams”
- “Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens...”
- “To see a World in a Grain of Sand...”
- “Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
- “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
- “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
- “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience...”
- “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
- “Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
- “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”
- “We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy...”
- “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”
- “Where’s your will to be weird?”
- “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.”
- “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
- “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
- “An unexamined life is not worth living.”
- “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
- “They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life...”
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
- “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
- “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.”
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
- “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
- “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
- “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
- “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
- “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”
- “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.”
- “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
- “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
- “Dream big and dare to fail.”
- “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
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Correspondence
- The image of fetuses shouldn't be a reason to deny women's right to abortion
- Is economics really a science?
- Helen Caldicott on nuclear Energy
- Refusing to serve people you don't agree with
- The US is no longer great
- Discrimination: not only against women - nerds experienced it too!
- Environmentalists should have vasectomies
- Why atheists speak out against religion
- Inspired by the NASA logo of Apollo times
- UFO sightings
...much more to come...
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Inventions
- Daily Rationing Safe
- Smart Fans
- Personal Communication System
- Dynamic Sunglasses
- Self Dissolving Wrappers
- Motorbike Warning Sounds
- Retractable Motorbike Rain Cover
- Local Plastic Bottle Recycling
- PO Box Notifier
- Ultimate Biking Shirt
- Reusable Glow Sticks
- FMDj - Vocal Intro to mp3 Songs