If 91 year old Oliver Sullivan from Billings, Montana can learn
Windows Vista – anyone can. (click on photo for larger image)
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Archive for January, 2010
Oliver Learns Vista At Age 91
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Eating Carbon-dioxide and Making Methane
Sunday, January 24th, 2010When 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 carbon-dioxide with hydrogen to produce methane gas.
methanogen bacteria produce methane (natural gas)
Oliver explained the value to civilized society of a stable natural gas supply.
Oliver would have been 94 years old tonight at midnight. He claimed January 25, 1916 as his birthday.
Coal to Oil (C2O) Flow Diagram
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010The attached flow diagram depicts the major sources and sinks of the “Coal to Oil” (CtoO or C2O) system.
Corporation Rights and Responsibilities
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Amend Constitution of USA: Corporations shall NOT pay money, directly or indirectly, to political campaigns, candidates, seated politicians, or former politicians. Corporations shall pay for all Health Care of every worker no matter how many hours that worker provides. Unless specifically enumerated in the Law, Corporations have no natural or common law Rights.
The Supremes of the Court have ruled that, according to the Constitution of USA, Corporations are Persons and, thusly, they are forthwith emancipated from all chains binding them concerning their Freedom of Speech exercised in buying politicians, like you and I would buy a sack of potatoes. Yep. That’s what the Chief Justice wrote about.
The Chief Justice says Corporations may buy politicians. The conclusion is unequivocal. Given such a condition the only way out is to amend the Constitution of USA is some manner. That is what Root Cause Analysis says. When faced with a lack of proper wording in the Constitution, the obvious answer is to amend the wording of that Constitution in some sensible manner.
Zulu Warrior
Monday, January 18th, 2010The Zulu warrior stood alone, legs locked in fear as he peered intently down the darkened street with only an occasional light showing. He must go down this street in order to make it into the relative safety of the Project where he lived with his wife and children.
Just a few days before he had been told by his boss that that he was being moved to the afternoon shift which meant that he would be traveling home well after dark. He confided to his friend that he was filled with fear over what he must face. His friend was amazed that a Zulu warrior would know such fear for, when Zulu warriors went to war, they knew no fear. He had explained the source of his fear to his friend. It had helped somewhat but tonight here he stood.
The Zulu warrior stood, at the head of the street he must walk down. He was feeling deeply afraid. He must give himself a few moments to still his fear, as he had been trained to do. Then he must make his way carefully down the street ready to defend himself or run for his life at any moment.
The Zulu warrior was afraid of them. They ran in feral packs at night and hunted for humans whom they might overtake and rob. During the day they begged upon the streets of the city. Some as young as five years old sniffed glue during the day and at night they ran in packs, these homeless children.
At night they sometimes laid in wait for helpless people to rob. They hid under cars and over walls and they would swarm out and attack. They would stab with anything sharp. They would bring their human prey down to the ground and rob them. They might kill them. The pack of children would leave them for dead.
Where had these feral children come from?
Some of these homeless children had been turned out of the house by their parents and told to go make their own way in the world.
What must be done to rescue these children?
Do not give them money it only perpetuates their misery. Their best hope is to make their way to the shelters setup for the care of these homeless and parentless children.
Coal to Oil (C2O)
Monday, January 18th, 2010“Coal to Oil” is an idea whose time has come. Oliver knew it in his bones. He elicited a promise from his only son that he (the son) would carry the “Coal to Oil” banner when the father had passed on.
In the year 2010 the “Coal to Oil” (C2O) idea of Oliver Sullivan shall be brought to life by means of a computer screen and audio system. Rather than constructing a coal gasification plant, I will begin telling the C2O story somewhere among the myriad bio-mass and coal feeder systems, within the coal gasification process itself, or among the myriad local community enterprises utilizing every bit of material produced by the C2O Industry
I will be learning Flash and using the C2O animation of gas flowing in time over a temperature gradient and a gravity field. That will be the backdrop for some small slice of the overall process worth visualizing in an animation sequence…my first demonstration slice.
Perhaps I’ll begin in a animation perspective of coal gasification beginning with the Periodic Table of Elements? Perhaps I’ll begin in the ancient peat bogs where the lignite coal began to form.
I can see the overall idea in my mind’s eye. There’s a great distance to go, from where I am to where I must go to attain competency in the Adobe CS 4 product suite.
A Signal Frequency of the Human Soul
Sunday, January 17th, 2010Perhaps it will turn out to be true that love is a signal frequency of the human soul. Love is the carrier upon which information from higher sources is inscribed. Now that’s an interesting way to view the matter.
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The Oliver Sullivan Solution
Saturday, January 16th, 2010And so it was that Oliver came up with his “Coal to Oil” idea and the Governor of Montana liked the idea so much that he tried to sell it to the people of Montana.
Oliver said that it was possible for a man backed by science and sound reasoning to present the idea to a leader of government or business and have that idea understood and adopted.
Oliver believed that with an idea went the obligation to not come forth and claim the credit. Oliver had a complicated way of explaining the keeping of secrets. I think Oliver was simply too humble and shy to want to be recognized. His instructions were that I could tell the whole story when he was gone.
How it happened that Oliver’s letter “Coal to Oil” made its way to the Governor’s office I cannot say. I saw a copy of the letter and I read the Billings Gazette article with the Governor’s speech and, for the part of both I read they were identical.
I was shown the political office campaign materials Oliver helped Bill prepare for his runs for political office. Bill was trained as a Crusader for Jesus by the Jesuits. He recognized that “The Oliver Sullivan Solution” was a profoundly good idea because it was, in its entirety, a green solution for the coal to oil industry, in the sense of the bacteria and fife forms surrounding the coal to liquid fuel process being the means of handling all pollution, including gaseous byproducts like carbon-dioxide. Bill campaigned with the “Coal to Oil” platform center stage.
Oliver had his science, chemistry, and mathematics down pat. He wove his stories from the science and the bio-chemistry. If there are mistakes in the writings they are the author’s and not Oliver’s.
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Coal to Oil
Saturday, January 16th, 2010Oliver did the math and determined that under the eastern lands of Montana lay a bed of the finest coal for turning into oil. It was low sulfur content and high water content lignite coal. He chose the word oil, rather than fuel, liquid fuel, and so forth. He said, “the common people understand oil.”
He knew the people of Montana and the United States would understand that the oil refinery-like products produced from the coal to oil process were the same set of products as com from the oil pumped out of the ground in the Middle East.
He thought they would welcome the idea that less imported oil meant fewer U.S. dollars in the hands of foreign terrorists. He said the reduction in dollars spent on warfare to protect Mid East oil would result in fewer deaths of U.S. soldiers. He would say, “No more blood for oil.”
Oliver believed the common people would rally behind the call to turn Eastern Montana coal into oil. He admitted that little if any of the coal would actually get turned into oil. His point was that the products that come from coal gasificatioin are basically the same products that come from refining oil.
“There’s enough energy in that Montana coal to last the United States four hundred years.”
Oliver had done the research and performed the mathematical calculations necessary to determine the 400 years, taking into account how many quads of energy (U.S. usage equals 100 quads) would be needed over that time span. He was very clear that “Coal to Oil” was an interim solution.
“During those four hundred years they need to convert to wind and solar energy. Coal is used in the ramp up phase.”
Oliver’s energy equation computed
four hundred years
as the time frame available, assuming now present demographic and energy consumption patterns continue over that time frame.
Eastern Montana coal could supply the needs for energy by every human living in the United States. Oliver worked with his friend Bill to come up with marketing materials that would sell the idea to the voters of Montana. They summed up the ideas in easily remembered equations like
Energy Independence = 400 Years
Oliver and Bill came up with lots of marketing information. Oliver wrote a letter to the Governor of Montana promoting the idea. The Governor delivered a speech based upon that letter. Various Montana papers printed the Governor’s speech.
The transcript of the Governor’s speech was virtually identical to the letter that Oliver had written. Bill had helped Oliver in some manner with the delivery of the letter to the Governor. Bill used the marketing information in his campaigns for public office. Bill worked very hard to sell Oliver’s idea concerning Montana
coal to oil
being the best answer to the short-term (400 years) need to eliminate United States demand for foreign oil.
If I recollect properly, Oliver computed the break even point at something on the order of forty dollars a barrel, including ALL of the costs of restoring the land surface of Montana to its former contour for those sections that are strip mined.
Knowing Oliver, he factored in every cost he could think of into his equationMontana Coal = 400 years energy independence
The Governor of Montana had a UofM professor verify the accuracy of the equation and they came up with 487 years instead of Oliver’s original 400 year estimate. Oliver smiled when he heard the news–off by four score and seven years having some special significance or perhaps a spot of humor.
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Coal to Oil (Plan B)
Sunday, January 10th, 2010I have been giving thought to what I will do when I am temporarily unemployed (beginning in February and lasting for a few weeks). It is always a little scary having no active contract but I am looking forward to this bench time as an opportunity to invest some free time in preparing a proposal, for what I would like to do with my available supply of time-for-money.
I decided that I would pursue Oliver’s vision and see where that got me. In Oliver’s vision every regional economy of the United States was to be self sufficient in terms of liquid fuel, based upon the steady arrival of the coal trains from eastern Montana. He computed that the entire liquid fuel needs of the United States could be met in this manner for the next four hundred years.
Through a friend Oliver contacted the Governor of Montana who took Oliver’s idea to the people of Montana. Oliver said the people of Montana voted it down because they did not understand the science, mathematics, technology, and economics of the Coal to Oil equation.
I could create an Adobe Flash interactive simulation model of a Coal to Oil Industry product flow based Economy, including the biological systems necessary to process the liquid fuel by-products into a form suitable for human use. Oliver had recommended simulating the system on the scale necessary to sustain 50,000 humans. That seems sensible to me and a whole lot easier to quantify the Economy.
I wrote the following article on this geeky topic.
I shall seek to raise grant funding to produce an Adobe Flash presentation of a Coal to Oil flow system (operating over a temperature gradient) designed to follow the physical chemical roadmap of science and mathematics.
It will follow the continuum of the physical chemical, bio-chemical, biological systems surrounding the flow system that turns coal into coal gas and flyash. The coal gas is the raw material of a traditional oil industry. Biological systems eat the waste products and convert it to a form safe for human life.
This “Coal to Oil” Adobe Flash animation is the highest fulfillment of the vision of Oliver that I am able to personally produce–and I’ll have fun learning the technology necessary to produce this product. Perhaps I’ll find a grant funding source for this project and perhaps I won’t. Who can tell such things beforehand?
The highest fulfillment of Oliver’s vision will be the construction in Billings, Montana or the surrounding area of a full-scale coal to oil plant optimized for the long-term needs of a community of humans sized fifty thousand or so in population.
The Adobe Flash presentation will be interactive in nature and will allow humans to attach notes, facts, anecdotes, and so forth at strategic points within the flow system.
The goal of the animated simulation is that the science be clearly laid out and verifiable in the laboratory. All humans desiring to play a part in the final GO decision will have ample places to participate in the discussion and vote on the individual parts of the overall system.
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