Turning the Economy and the Nation Around

We need to build intelligent highways on the interstate -- Solar Roadways.  We need to do it now -- stop all current roadway upgrades and move towards roadways that pay us back.  Yes, we the people can have a revenue stream from the same dollars currently spent on upgrading our roads.  That money will be spent either way.  Solar Roadways is a no brainer choice.

We're barely keeping up with the costs of maintaining our roads and bridges as it is, and the cost of construction materials is skyrocketing. New materials and technologies have to be found to replace our current archaic system.

The Solar Roadway is an intelligent road that provides clean renewable energy, while providing safer driving conditions, along with power and data delivery. The Solar Roadway will pay for itself through the generation of electricity along with other forms of revenue. The same money that is being used to build and resurface current roads can be used to build the Solar Roadways. Then, since coal-fired and nuclear power plants will no longer be needed, the costs of all electricity generation plants can also be rolled back into the Solar Roadways. Add too the costs of power distribution systems (power poles, relay stations, etc.)

The power of intelligent highways is that we create a fault tolerant, distributable grid which is the basis of a hydrogen economy.  This takes us into the next century ...

The power grid cannot be disrupted - not by terrorists, not by power companies, not by nature, not by anyone. No more blackouts, no more brownouts, no more disruptions - ever.

Funding for highway repair and improvements hasn't kept up with rising construction and maintenance costs, which have far outstripped the overall inflation rate. Higher oil prices have raised the cost of asphalt and the diesel fuel needed to power road-building equipment.

Americans need to face the sobering reality that the country's infrastructure is in trouble. Most of it was built in the 20th century, during the greatest age of construction the world has seen. The continent was wired for electricity and phone service, and colossal projects, including the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge and the interstate highway system, were completed.
We're leasing our roads to foreign investors, who plan to turn them into toll roads. Loaded with investor cash, companies are buying leases of public highways, bridges and tunnels from states desperately trying to improve infrastructure.
Chicago enriched its treasury by $1.8 billion by selling a 99-year lease of the Chicago Skyway to Spanish roads operator Cintra and Australian bank Macquarie. At about the same time, Texas bagged $1.2 billion to let a Cintra-led consortium build the first part of the Trans-Texas Corridor and collect tolls on it for 50 years.
"U.S. infrastructure needs lots and lots of capital, and it's not obvious where all that money is going to come from." Murray Bleach, President of Macquarie Holdings, USA.

Is that the answer ... leasing of roads to become toll roads to move about the country?  Or how about another trillion to update our system with no hope of getting that money back?

Our roads can become the safety net ...

The nation's highway transportation system includes 3.8 million miles of roadways and 582,000 bridges. Significantly, the highway system supports 86 percent of all our citizens' personal travel, moves 80 percent of the nation's freight (based on value), and serves as a key component in national defense mobility. Despite widespread redundancies, there are critical junctures with limited capacity for additional traffic. Freight volume is projected to double by 2020, stretching our ability to manage limited capacity and growing security concerns.
"Security concerns" includes terrorism. We've all seen the news reports about suicide bombers boarding crowded buses and detonating themselves. Vehicles such as fuel trucks are also potential targets.
Currently, it's difficult to track these vehicles, other than by radio. The Solar Roadways form a wide area network, with each individual Solar Road Panel containing a microprocessor board with its own address. Think of the Solar Roadways as the internet, with each individual Solar Road Panel acting as an online computer. If we place RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags on high-risk vehicles that we want to track, the Solar Roadways would track them in real time and we'd always know exactly where they were at all times.

Roads literally become the power grid ...

Our current power grid is based on centralized power stations. Distribution of power is handled through transmission lines (overhead and underground), relay stations, and transformers. When a line goes down (ice, lighting, wind, tress, utility pole hit by car, etc.), everyone on the wrong end of the line loses power until the damage is repaired. If a power station goes down, an entire section of the country goes dark.

The Solar Roadways™ on the other hand, replaces all current centralized power stations including coal- and nuclear-powered electricity generation plants. With the Solar Roadways™, the road becomes the power grid, eliminating the need for unsightly utility poles and relay stations. Power is generated everywhere - every road, parking lot, and driveway. No more power outages, roaming or otherwise.

Solar Roadways produces a new grid that has no central point of weakness.  Every part of it auto-configures around failures like fault-tolerant computers.  All remaining parts are still plugged into the grid and working to provide power with alternate routing.  I worked on fault tolerant computers for over 10 years, this is a great design.

Our decentralized power grid will deny terrorists an opportunity to take out our power. Making oil reserves spread further with no need of imports will take away the vast majority of terrorist funding. This eliminates the need to protect our oil interests in hostile lands.

Smart roads bring new flexibility in how transportation moves ...
 

Trucks with hazardous materials can be tracked and monitored. Suspected terrorist's vehicles can be tracked. Public buses and school buses can be tracked. All in real time. These vehicles can be fitted with controls to shut down their engines and/or apply their brakes in the event that they are commandeered with malintent.

This solution gives zero dependence on foreign oil.

The fact that the world is running out of oil doesn't mean that the industrialized nations will simply learn to live without it. Those who are capable will fight for the last drop of oil, anyplace, anywhere. We don't believe that any of us are willing to mothball our military machines or revert back to non-mechanized artillery units. World War III could easily ensue over the right to extract and use the last reserves of oil.

Check out Solar Roadways -- they solve the problem and give government a revenue from basic electrical power.  They give businesses the ability to plug into the grid with Wind, Solar, and other means to keep the grid evenly balanced.  It removes the need to have sophisticated solar power -- older technology is sufficient.  It produces 3 times the amount of electrical power currently used today.  It sets us up to use electric vehicles and to generate hydrogen as a fuel for defense.  American inventors have created these solutions.  Look at http://www.solarroadways.com

Since we'll be producing three times more electricity than we can use (see Numbers), we'll have no further need for nuclear power plants of any kind. No more worrying about another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. No more stockpiles of radioactive waste. We can provide Solar Road Panels™ anywhere in the world, helping all countries achieve the dream of security.

We as a country should be buying Solar Roadways and putting them in place rather than investing in pork projects across our country -- or in the latest research ... let Wall Street make the cutting edge decisions (also known as the bleeding edge).  That is how fortunes are lost and won in the market which is a good thing.

the Solar Roadways™ provides us (and other nations) national security that we have never been able to achieve. It can help curb terrorism. It can help prevent future wars. It can keep our children safer. It will cut down on health and respiratory problems. The Solar Roadway™ will help us to sleep better at night!

Investing in this new infrastructure no only makes sense but will keep us safe.

for roughly the same cost of the current systems (roads and fossil fuel burning electricity generation plants), the Solar Roadways can be implemented. Unlike current road systems, it will pay for itself over time. No more Global Warming. No more power outages (roaming or otherwise). Safer driving conditions. Far less pollution. A new secure highway infrastructure that pays for itself. A decentralized, self-healing, secure power grid. No more dependency on foreign oil.  Scott Brusaw http://solarroadways.com/numbers.shtml

Healing Vibrations

It has been too long since health care in the United States was politically locked into Western Medicine.  Alternatives throughout the world have proven to be effective.  Other models of medicine are in common use in larger sets of people than western medicine.  Acupuncture serves as a primary care physician for more than a billion people in the world.  And, yet, there are many more.  Ayurveda medicine, various types of massage, trigger point therapies, essential oil therapy, cupping, coining, chiropractic care, and the list is voluminous.

Today we find doctors forming wellness centers and exploring alternative medicine only to brand their system as unique and effective under their own name.  They often base these systems on proven medical systems outside of the United States.  In certain areas like Cancer, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, and other difficult to treat diseases -- alternative treatments in the United States are severely punished and end up in courts.  This is not because they are any less effective than Western Medicine or any less proven.  In many cases the amount of studies and scientific evidence is far greater in the alternative side of medicine.  In many cases there are cures and treatments which are more effective and are in common use outside of the United States.

For anyone to use the word "cure" is an immediate flag for our medical establishment to go after this treatment's administrators as quacks and to pull them into court.  For anyone to advertise is an invitation for suits and legal harassment in a country born of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of choice.

Somehow doctors have used vaccines and drugs and advertise them as cures or treatments.  Slowly herbs have been introduced into to our pharmaceuticals and now are in common usage in any pharmacy in the United States.  Read the labels of many products and they are often herbal based.  I am amazed.  The truth is that many early drugs were based on an herb.  To the Chinese they called these substances medicines because they included anything that healed or helped resolve conditions.  It could be minerals, bugs, excrement, herbs, or burn hair or anything that was found effective as a medicine.  The Chinese systematically categorized, tested, and propagated cures and treatments.

So many of these choices today are done in a free speech platform.  You read about it.  You buy it.  You try it.  It leaves many who can afford this process to buy into solution.  And some of those simply go to clinics outside of the United States.  Case in point Sano Vive in Mexico was created by a billionaire scientist who created viral research and became a proponent of vitamin therapies.  He bought an old estate in Mexico and set it up as a hospital.  He had to be in a country where they have the freedom to do alternative therapies outside of the medical establishment.

I personally like the spread of healing vibrations throughout our country.  Reiki is a good example.  Yoga, tai chi chuan, meditation, qi qong, and many other practices allow one to align the body physically, mentally, spiritually, and energetically.  There are a series of physical devices which do the same.  Infra-red light, Far infra-red rays, ultra-violet light applied to blood, electrical stimulation, micro-electrical stimulation, crystals, light itself, movement devices, and the list goes on.

Healing vibrations can bring our body back into harmony so that it may heal itself.  Within our bodies we have the perfect healing mechanisms that were created to keep us healthy.  Personally I use alternative health as a way of life to keep healthy.  I believe in it and support it.  I maintain a practice in Oriental Medicine.  I am always looking for the next idea which may improve or help our health.

I recommend to anyone with a health problem that is not resolved to pursue all lines of activity and seek out solutions throughout the world which have been found effective.  Imagine my surprise when I read that vitiligo is treated in China by injections of a common herb with over a 60 percent success rate.  Many, many other treatments are available for those that seek to know.

The approaches to cancer in the United States are no longer surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.  The list is so long it is beyond any one article.  Even in the medical community today, the choices are a wide array of choices.  Be sure and read everything you can on any physical malady before giving up.  And include in your journey towards health a number of healing vibration choices.  They will make any recovery a smoother process.

Business on its own Merit

I want to see business ideas that hold merit on their own -- not government handouts. I worked at Sequana Therapeutics where an entrepreneur was creating about his 30th start up.  He did over 50 start ups in his career.  I remember being in the room when he asked for business proposals from the group.  When he went over them, they all seemed to be government grants for money.  He dismissed the meeting with this comment ... I want to see business ideas that hold merit on their own -- not government handouts.  Please come back with some new proposals.  I think about our intention as a country when we attempt to stimulate the economy and dump billions into campaign contributor's pockets.  That is crony capitalism verses business on its own merit.  How we think does make a difference.

Intelligent Highways

We need to build intelligent highways on the interstate -- Solar Roadways.  We need to do it now -- stop all current roadway upgrades and move towards roadways that pay us back.  Yes, we the people can have a revenue stream from the same dollars currently spent on upgrading our roads.  That money will be spent either way.  Solar Roadways is a no brainer choice.

We're barely keeping up with the costs of maintaining our roads and bridges as it is, and the cost of construction materials is skyrocketing. New materials and technologies have to be found to replace our current archaic system.

The Solar Roadway is an intelligent road that provides clean renewable energy, while providing safer driving conditions, along with power and data delivery. The Solar Roadway will pay for itself through the generation of electricity along with other forms of revenue. The same money that is being used to build and resurface current roads can be used to build the Solar Roadways. Then, since coal-fired and nuclear power plants will no longer be needed, the costs of all electricity generation plants can also be rolled back into the Solar Roadways. Add too the costs of power distribution systems (power poles, relay stations, etc.)

The power of intelligent highways is that we create a fault tolerant, distributable grid which is the basis of a hydrogen economy.  This takes us into the next century ...

The power grid cannot be disrupted - not by terrorists, not by power companies, not by nature, not by anyone. No more blackouts, no more brownouts, no more disruptions - ever.

Funding for highway repair and improvements hasn't kept up with rising construction and maintenance costs, which have far outstripped the overall inflation rate. Higher oil prices have raised the cost of asphalt and the diesel fuel needed to power road-building equipment.

Americans need to face the sobering reality that the country's infrastructure is in trouble. Most of it was built in the 20th century, during the greatest age of construction the world has seen. The continent was wired for electricity and phone service, and colossal projects, including the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge and the interstate highway system, were completed.
We're leasing our roads to foreign investors, who plan to turn them into toll roads. Loaded with investor cash, companies are buying leases of public highways, bridges and tunnels from states desperately trying to improve infrastructure.
Chicago enriched its treasury by $1.8 billion by selling a 99-year lease of the Chicago Skyway to Spanish roads operator Cintra and Australian bank Macquarie. At about the same time, Texas bagged $1.2 billion to let a Cintra-led consortium build the first part of the Trans-Texas Corridor and collect tolls on it for 50 years.
"U.S. infrastructure needs lots and lots of capital, and it's not obvious where all that money is going to come from." Murray Bleach, President of Macquarie Holdings, USA.

Is that the answer ... leasing of roads to become toll roads to move about the country?  Or how about another trillion to update our system with no hope of getting that money back?

Our roads can become the safety net ...

The nation's highway transportation system includes 3.8 million miles of roadways and 582,000 bridges. Significantly, the highway system supports 86 percent of all our citizens' personal travel, moves 80 percent of the nation's freight (based on value), and serves as a key component in national defense mobility. Despite widespread redundancies, there are critical junctures with limited capacity for additional traffic. Freight volume is projected to double by 2020, stretching our ability to manage limited capacity and growing security concerns.
"Security concerns" includes terrorism. We've all seen the news reports about suicide bombers boarding crowded buses and detonating themselves. Vehicles such as fuel trucks are also potential targets.
Currently, it's difficult to track these vehicles, other than by radio. The Solar Roadways form a wide area network, with each individual Solar Road Panel containing a microprocessor board with its own address. Think of the Solar Roadways as the internet, with each individual Solar Road Panel acting as an online computer. If we place RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags on high-risk vehicles that we want to track, the Solar Roadways would track them in real time and we'd always know exactly where they were at all times.

Roads literally become the power grid ...

Our current power grid is based on centralized power stations. Distribution of power is handled through transmission lines (overhead and underground), relay stations, and transformers. When a line goes down (ice, lighting, wind, tress, utility pole hit by car, etc.), everyone on the wrong end of the line loses power until the damage is repaired. If a power station goes down, an entire section of the country goes dark.

The Solar Roadways™ on the other hand, replaces all current centralized power stations including coal- and nuclear-powered electricity generation plants. With the Solar Roadways™, the road becomes the power grid, eliminating the need for unsightly utility poles and relay stations. Power is generated everywhere - every road, parking lot, and driveway. No more power outages, roaming or otherwise.

Solar Roadways produces a new grid that has no central point of weakness.  Every part of it auto-configures around failures like fault-tolerant computers.  All remaining parts are still plugged into the grid and working to provide power with alternate routing.  I worked on fault tolerant computers for over 10 years, this is a great design.

Our decentralized power grid will deny terrorists an opportunity to take out our power. Making oil reserves spread further with no need of imports will take away the vast majority of terrorist funding. This eliminates the need to protect our oil interests in hostile lands.

Smart roads bring new flexibility in how transportation moves ...

Trucks with hazardous materials can be tracked and monitored. Suspected terrorist's vehicles can be tracked. Public buses and school buses can be tracked. All in real time. These vehicles can be fitted with controls to shut down their engines and/or apply their brakes in the event that they are commandeered with malintent.

This solution gives zero dependence on foreign oil.

The fact that the world is running out of oil doesn't mean that the industrialized nations will simply learn to live without it. Those who are capable will fight for the last drop of oil, anyplace, anywhere. We don't believe that any of us are willing to mothball our military machines or revert back to non-mechanized artillery units. World War III could easily ensue over the right to extract and use the last reserves of oil.

Check out Solar Roadways -- they solve the problem and give government a revenue from basic electrical power.  They give businesses the ability to plug into the grid with Wind, Solar, and other means to keep the grid evenly balanced.  It removes the need to have sophisticated solar power -- older technology is sufficient.  It produces 3 times the amount of electrical power currently used today.  It sets us up to use electric vehicles and to generate hydrogen as a fuel for defense.  American inventors have created these solutions.  Look at http://www.solarroadways.com

Since we'll be producing three times more electricity than we can use (see Numbers), we'll have no further need for nuclear power plants of any kind. No more worrying about another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. No more stockpiles of radioactive waste. We can provide Solar Road Panels™ anywhere in the world, helping all countries achieve the dream of security.

We as a country should be buying Solar Roadways and putting them in place rather than investing in pork projects across our country -- or in the latest research ... let Wall Street make the cutting edge decisions (also known as the bleeding edge).  That is how fortunes are lost and won in the market which is a good thing.

the Solar Roadways™ provides us (and other nations) national security that we have never been able to achieve. It can help curb terrorism. It can help prevent future wars. It can keep our children safer. It will cut down on health and respiratory problems. The Solar Roadway™ will help us to sleep better at night!

Investing in this new infrastructure no only makes sense but will keep us safe.

for roughly the same cost of the current systems (roads and fossil fuel burning electricity generation plants), the Solar Roadways can be implemented. Unlike current road systems, it will pay for itself over time. No more Global Warming. No more power outages (roaming or otherwise). Safer driving conditions. Far less pollution. A new secure highway infrastructure that pays for itself. A decentralized, self-healing, secure power grid. No more dependency on foreign oil.  Scott Brusaw http://solarroadways.com/numbers.shtml

The Legacy List

At Tandem Computers we had a 4 week vacation every four years in addition to our yearly vacation.  People made lists of where they wanted to go and what they wanted to do.  How cool is that?  A couple I'm close to made a similar list and did it all together including 200 miles of the John Meir trail.  Those bucket lists ignite our lives.

One other list I've been thinking about lately is the my life list -- the one we complete by being here.  I've often said there is nothing I have not done that I wanted to do in my life.  I simply put it on a list and do it.  Often it gets done daily. I love the simple phase "do it."  And I'd prefer to do it now.

I'm beginning to realize another list.  The deliverable list I want done by the end of my life.  It is the I've done it and here it is list.  It is not the list from your wife, your boss, your friend, or your mother.  This list is your legacy list.  It is something left when you are gone.

It helps to choose someone you admire and identify their legacy list.  Like President Reagan.  Amazing that he spoke so often on radio and left us a legacy of conservative speeches which promote liberty.  I guess I felt I didn't know Ronald Reagan until I read Riding with Reagan and felt the impact of his life at the ranch.  Here was a leader that would go to the ranch to work with his  hands and think.  He tried his best to do the right thing for our country through tried and true inspiration from the divine.

How about John Wayne ... most actors have a big legacy list in their films.  John Wayne always stood out as a no-nonsense kind of guy.  He believed in America and stood up for its principles.  He came across as a take charge kind of guy.  Everyone knows that walk ... a man's man.

Proverbs would say, in all thy getting get understanding.  I guess what I am saying is in all your listing get a bit of legacy going.  Those things we strive to complete and how we complete them add up.

Treason

"Give me Liberty or Give Me Death" said Patrick Henry. We live in a time with treason in the highest halls of our government and we need those who will hold their actions to the light. Anyone who supports Occupy Wall Street is calling for anarchy in our streets. Anyone in our government who asks for socialism and a tightly controlled capitalism model to replace our constitution is committing an act of treason and needs to be impeached. Anyone in our government who would give away islands belonging to a sovereign state (Alaska) without permission of the People needs to be impeached. Anyone who would give 1.5 billion dollars to the enemies of our nation (Muslim Brotherhood are Jihadists and were thrown out of every Muslim nation for that reason) needs to be impeached. Anyone who would call out the actions of one single individual and call it racist and incite riots in our streets is being irresponsible and inciting others to be racist themselves. The facts in any case need to be gleaned before making snap judgements. Our constitutional republic is not mobocracy or even democracy. It is a republic which preserves our freedom when those sworn to uphold it obey its principles.

It is time for us all to say, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!"  It is time to clean house across all of our branches of government.

Valley Forge Today

George Washington retreated to Valley Forge for safety in the winters during the revolutionary war.  History remembers 10,000 troops settling in tents in a freezing winter.  4,000 of them without blankets and many without shoes.  2,000 never receive blankets though they managed to build small barracks housing 12 soldiers each.  2,500 of them died that winter.  America's Valley Forge ended with more troops than they started.  They were ready to fight and disciplined for war despite the hardships.

Benjamin Franklin wrote George Washington from France, "you would, on this side of the sea, enjoy the great reputation you have acquired.  I frequently hear the old generals of this martial country, who study maps of America and mark upon them all your operations, speak with sincere approbation and great applause of your conduct, and join in giving you the character of one of the greatest captains of the age."

Washington himself wrote after Valley Forge, "grateful thanks due to the great Author of all the care and good that have been extended in relieving us in difficulties and distress."

Martha Washington visited her husband in every winter of the campaign.  She arrived in Valley Forge with carriages full of clothing, medicine, and blankets.  She organized other women to help.  She repaired torn clothes and acted proving medical relief.

There needs to be a return to the common sense and American values delivered from Valley Forge -- forged in blood, tears, and agony.  We need to treat our tax dollars as a sacred trust.  We need to restore confidence in the American institutions that got us here.  We need to rely on the "invisible hand of providence" to deliver us from our "difficulties and distress."

We need to remove the huge staffs of congress and in the executive branch.  We need to restore our freedom to have a fair jury.  We need to restore our rights as American citizens to freedom of religion in the manner set up by our founding fathers.  We need a free press and to remove the right of the government to block it in any circumstances.  We need to remove regulations which govern by oppression.  We need a fair tax, not a progressive tax which is a hallmark of communist regimes.  A good start would be the list in the book, "Throw Them All Out", which suggests solutions in a few pages of how to remove greed and graft from Washington.

George Washington continued his Valley Forge as he took oversight in the building of our nation -- both the constitution and the presidency.  His greatest enemy was Muslim nations who took 25 percent of all of our tax dollars as ransom for us to free them from slavery.  He established the marines and a navy and sent them over to fight again for our right to a free market on the open seas.

Today our free market system and the inalienable rights preserved by the republic's constitution mean something only to the degree that we still follow them.  They have held us in good stead for many years.  Our nation started out restoring freedom to those slaves who were sold into our country as slave labor.  Two of the signers of the declaration of independence were black.  The heritage of being American was bought in blood by all of us.  It is time we vote in representatives that believe in our own form of government.