Obama Open Govt., Baz and AUSTRALIA, 3 BEST Concentrated Algae Systems

It is in the video I produced a couple of weeks ago, but it flashes by so quickly that most people don´t have time to read the superimposed text on the picture of the power plant.

Portland General Electric's coal fired plant in Boardman, OR, has announced a partnership to grow algae to sequester carbon dioxide from its flue gases. An imperfect but promising step in the right direction; a changeover to 100% green biomass would be significantly better and algae is a prime candidate for that role (and not just because our company has a patent pending for Concentrated Algae Cultivation (LEGAL NOTICE: All ownership of "concentrated algae cultivation" system, devices and underlying intellectual property has been transferred to SOURCE INTEGRATION, Inc. see: http://www.sourceintegration.com ) system, although that´s a good thing too). Arizona Public Service (an electric utility in Arizona [surprise, surprise]) has published a study related to the demonstration by Green Fuel Technologies that took place at their Red Hawk generating plant (very near the Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant) in which they estimate an algae farm of some 8,000+ acres would be needed to sequester significant amounts from this 750 MW facility, but the good news is that Green Fuel's vertical polythene bag growth system for cultivating algae was so effective in producing algae that they had to shut down because it was producing more than they could cope with. [Green Fuel also recently announced a licensing agreement to a company in Northern Alberta for their "vertical growth" system for regular plants, too.] To be fair, the third algae vertical growth system that looks promising (in addition to Green Fuel Technologies and our own DaoChi Energy of Arizona systems) is the Vertigro system, now wholly owned by Glen Kurtz´s Valcent company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. (Clever marketing, Glen, naming it the High Density Vertical Bioreactor.)

Rather than reproducing all the comments I have been making all over the "blogosphere" I´ll try to list a few links here:

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=54047

and I got really pretty "windy" (as in long winded, no methane was released) at:

http://www.linkedin.com/newsArticle?viewDiscussion=&articleID=19725218&gid=45668&goback=%2Eana_45668_1228674943720_1

(that one may be a little harder to get to if you haven´t discovered the "LinkedIn" site yet)

I sometimes feel like I am turning into a "Johnny One-Note" pushing my Closed Loop Energy Cycle and Integrated Green Energy concepts, but I guess I won´t be done until I feel that the concepts are well planted in the consciousness of the people of the planet.

If there was ever any doubt that President-elect Obama really means to govern differently, you should take a look at this. http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/seat_at_the_table/

John Podesta, the former Clinton Whitehouse Chief-of-Staff´s name was on the "from" portion of the email I received about the Obama Transition Team´s open door policy on comments, and transparency on documents related to meetings with outside contacts (the website has a link to view the whole policy, which is rather short)

If you actually have some ideas about how to "Fix the economy", they have an open web form here: http://change.gov/page/s/economy . Or if you just want to tell the incoming administration where you think the emphasis of their efforts and thinking should be places (and maybe money spent?) you can add comments and just check the checkboxes next to 24 categories here: http://change.gov/page/s/ofthepeople (just BTW, the graphic of the link looks the same for the economy comments and the "priorities" pages but they take you to different places). So if you think that Obama/Biden and friends need to pay more attention to: Civil Rights, Defense, Disabilities, Economy, Education, Energy and Environment, Ethics, Faith, Family, Fiscal, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Homeland Security, Immigration, Iraq, Poverty, Rural, Service, Seniors and Social Security, Taxes, Technology, Urban Policy, Veterans, or Women, you can express those preferences here.

Apparently Nicole Kidman was bright enough a star to realize what a treasure she had discovered when she hooked up (er, I mean, collaborated) with Baz Luhrmann on Moulin Rouge (Baz, wrote, directed and produced Moulin Rouge) which also goes to show you ought to be careful how quickly you dismiss an artist´s abilities based on your first encounter with him/her, because I thought his Romeo + Juliet was nothing short of awful. Their latest collaboration, however,Australia is nothing short of a magnificent film. It would appear that he intended it to be such, since it runs just short of 3 hours in length, but even though I felt like I had seen enough story (there is PLENTY of good story in it) by the time 2 hours had passed, I was not bored for one minute along the way to the final (tear-jerker) emotional ending. Ms. Kidman and co-star Hugh Jackman both gave finely nuanced performances, and even though both were born in Australia they each affected very effective accents (Jackman´s being just a little more American than your average ´strain and Kidman playing a proper English gentlewoman). The whole movie, however, turns around the story of the boy played by Brandon Walters who Baz Luhrmann predicts will be "big". He is unquestionably charming, and his acting takes second place to none in this movie.

Love and warm wishes,

Stafford "Doc" Williamson

DaoChi Energy of Arizona