This project may be the only chance this planet has to survive Climate Change.

THIS may be our best bet for saving the Planet from Carbon Emissions

I NEED YOUR HELP: This project is to significantly reduce Carbon Emissions, I need financial help to build “prototypes” of a High Tech Canister to hold “compressed” Hydrogen for automobiles and ultimately into homes.

This is crucial because Hydrogen can be used for autos, homes and even micro grids around the world and that is critical to reducing Carbon Pollution dramatically affection our personal health as well as our entire environment. 

I know that small things seem like they are impossible to help. Like recycling metal, plastics and glass etc. but they have helped over all. you just did not get to see those results. By helping me I will post everything and steps in Facebook and Instagram and my own blog web site and maybe YouTube.

These canisters will measure 28 inches high and 9 inches in diameter and capable of holding up to 20,000 pounds per square nice of pressure.  (20,000 psi) and must weigh 15 pounds or less. Until recently this has been impossible. But “Science” has provided  viable solution.  SEE BELOW FOR HOW AND WHY THESE CANISTERS ARE FEASIBLE. (7-9 Paragraphs)

(I am not an Elon Musk but I understand the problems he faced with trying to get interested people to help him) 

The specification on the canister above will allow practically any person to pick it up (Because of lightness) and place it into the vehicles fueling system. The pressure will allow a normal vehicle to go 120-180 miles. The “rental” cost of that canister will full amount fuel is projected to be $10 (ten USA  dollars).

I have done preliminary designs of a rack that can be placed at any WallMart/Target etc., Pharmacy, Gas Station, Home Improvement Center. Quickly and utilizing a payment and communication center similar to red Box. and identified the way to keep those racks full 24/7 

After the prototype is finished design changes and testing etc. I have designed a manufacturing system of 4,000 Small independent Manufacturers (at lest one in EVERY US Congressional Legislative district in the USA as well as a method of producing and distributing commercial quantities around the USA from the first day of operations. I have worked on government approvals and tax incentives and even designed a way to pay State governments their lost highway fuel taxes up front.  Simply I have designed and planned a full scale business including operations and only need these canisters.

Even a Block-Chain accounting system is planned. 

I see a “direct increase” in jobs of high paying ($25/hr + minimum wage) of 100,000+ (one hundred thousand ) NOT including what would happen in the number of Direct and indirect Auto manufacturing and Fuel Cell manufactures and the potential for Home or off grid use and establishment of Micro Grids staggers my mind and a more reputable economic researcher(s) should calculate this (maybe as their Ph.D. Dissertation?) 

BUT THE REAL PURPOSE AND NEED AND DESIGN IS: to significantly reduce man made carbon pollution.

We all should know by now that carbon based pollution has been disastrous for our environment and health.

SO I AM BEGGING YOU: If you truly believe that Climate Change is at least partially caused by Humans putting carbon into the atmosphere and do not know what you can do to make a real difference then consider helping me please. I am not sure if this is enough to save us but it sure as heck can help ALL of us if what I am trying to do works.

Why the Canisters I described above would be able to hold 20,000 psi is the metal alloy. If you read science articles you will see remarkable things. One of them is the new ability to make super strong metal alloys using nano-particles. The biggest problem most researchers have in this area is they want to make that compound in massive quantities in existing smelters BUT they cannot get an even distribution of those nano-particles in the alloy outside of small quantities. 

For 15 years I have tried to find a way to incorporate alternative fuels primarily into the motor vehicle industry. The best by far was Hydrogen. Working from a consumers viewpoint to a manufacturing requirements I have created a full detailed business plan to put hydrogen into those vehicles

Tthis is maybe the last chance mankind may have to save itself. Please help and as my social media skills pick up watch for my back story, my progress, and even one other secret I have to give back, while making this plan a reality.

Thank you very very much for your time in having read this even if you don;t help me do try and do what you can to make even a small different in making this world a better place.

Media inquiries welcome. Please help get the word out.

 

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Alternative Energy Lies My Mother Did Not Tell Me.

I don’t typically rely on Rolling Stone for energy policy analysis, but I couldn’t help scratching my head over a piece earlier this week decrying “Big Oil’s Lies About Alternative Energy.” The story attempts to show that even as President Obama is calling for more investment in alternative energy, the energy companies with the deepest pockets are paring their investments and focusing more on fossil fuels.

While that’s true, the article implies some nefarious purpose on the part of oil companies. Actually, the reason behind oil companies’ decision is obvious: profit. Like all companies, oil companies exist to make money. Many plowed millions of dollars into alternative energy programs during the past decade, but those investments have generated little, if any, return. Meanwhile, hydraulic fracturing has unleashed huge potential profits from oil fields in the U.S. — properties that come with far less risk than drilling in other parts of the world.

The Rolling Stone piece seems to imply that oil companies making money from oil is bad, yet it ignores the huge benefit that oil company profitability has brought to millions of Americans. I’m not just talking about the abundance of cheap energy, which has been a big driver of the economy, but also about the financial benefits for investors. I found myself wondering how many shares of, say,Exxon Mobil XOM +0.62% are held directly or indirectly by funds in the Rolling Stone 401(k) plan.

Certainly, as the Rolling Stone piece notes, investment in alternative fuels by large oil companies has been paltry relative to their other operations. As I pointed out in Drowning in Oil, my book on BP , the company’s “Beyond Petroleum” campaign was always more marketing hype than corporate commitment. That said, BP’s recentdecision to sell its U.S. wind energy business has more to do with raising money to pay the legal costs from the Deepwater Horizon disaster than it does with the company’s commitment to alternative fuel.

When former BP chief executive John Browne concocted “Beyond Petroleum,” he hoped the company could profit by leading the charge into alternative fuels while more obstinate rivals such as Exxon sat on the sidelines. Yet Browne and BP found what Exxon had already determined: alternative fuels didn’t generate enough return to justify the investment.

Big Oil hasn’t just hit a dead-end on alternative energy. For years, the energy giants have struggled to replace oil and gas reserves. In effect, they are moving a step closer to liquidating themselves with every barrel of oil they produce. Exxon’s purchase of XTO Energy was designed to reverse that trend, but as an investment, it’s been a disappointment so far. For more than a decade, Exxon has been buying back its own stock, an admission that it believes shareholders can get a better return putting their money somewhere else. Few seem to be plowing that cash into green energy companies.

If wind or solar were inherently profitable, big oil companies would have invested more heavily. Unfortunately, their testing of the market failed to find viability. That leaves smaller companies with less overhead and more tolerant shareholders to find a way to make alternative fuels economically viable. We need to continue that quest, in hopes of developing a more diverse energy portfolio for the country. But those pioneers will have to make money at some point, too.

In the meantime, beating up oil companies for doing what their investors expect of them doesn’t bring us any closer to a solution.

Analysis of Alternative Fuels and How They Can Be Used in the Immediate Future

I am a Strategic Planner who finds solutions to issues and problems that seem to have no solutions. Management information systems are NOT  part of this planning solution methodology. If there is any one guiding principal to my work it is “If you cannot solve the problem you are facing, than you are facing the wrong problem. Changing the definition of that problem can lead to alternative solutions that were not previously considered or even dismissed as impractical.” The problem with most companies strategic planning is they do not look outside their own small domain. hence broader encompassing solutions are never developed let alone implemented.  Alternative Fuel Vehicles are a prime example. and that is the topic of this posting. I will try to write in as simple terms for the better understanding of everyone.

To Understand the options in Alternative Fuels for Vehicles as well as why they have not been more popular and hopefully concluding with a proposed solution we must consider in addition to the technology  necessary for these vehicles but even more important the ultimate consumer’s behavior and their life style and actual “home” locations. This is in addition to the “Chicken or the Egg” issue of infrastructure to fuel these vehicles vs. manufacturing  of these vehicles.

After the following discussion about current alternative fuel vehicles, there will be an attempt to give you a brad based strategic plan to implement the actual full scale production of one or more of these vehicles.

Electric Vehicles:

There appears to be 2 main reasons why these vehicles are not selling in  large numbers

Fist Elon Musk must be given enormous credit for his efforts in the electric vehicle market. His designs are first rate and his ultimate concept is good, but for the following reasons not great at this time:

Consider consumer behavior. Most people will go to an alternative gas station rather than wait 5 minutes for an open pump.

In the current society of instant information and fast food, instant meals and electronic communications that are in real time, NO ONE wants to wait 30 minutes to charge a car battery let alone 12 hours or more. Worse is the vast majority of the batteries for electric vehicles will only go a maximum of 100 miles or less and will need a re-charge, or a fully charged substitute battery (currently weighing over 1,000 pounds), which currently must be returned to the same location.

Less than 1/3 of Americans live where they can actually plug into an electric outlet. Apartments, town houses, condominiums. high rises just to name a few of the locations where you cannot run an electric cord to your vehicle. Compound that by the fact that many of these homes that “COULD” plug in will need an electrician to run wires to an outlet which increases the cost of the vehicle and must be done before you bring the vehicle home.   A small cost but a turnoff for many who would even consider this vehicle.

Unfortunately Battery Technology is lagging far behind demand and while there are exciting things on the horizon the market is still limited partially by current technology limitations the other by a low use demand curve even if it was feasible.  Imagine if there was a demand for 80-100 million batteries within 5 years and an additional 40 million + every year there after… would there be more research into this? It is possible, but you have to be able to see the bigger picture to know how to develop and implement such a grand vision… and it requires a collaboration of strategic partnerships (non financial) .

So with this scenario can you decide how to make Electric a easy convenient and affordable vehicle for most Americans??

Natural Gas Vehicles:

You probably know there are many Forklift trucks that are electric or use propane. However propane is not a suitable alternative fuel for passenger vehicles or even commercial fleets from Tractor trailers to buses and multiple vehicles.  Most of these larger vehicles run better with natural gas and have a greater efficiency.

LNG and CNG Alternatives

LNG or liquid natural gas has its share of users from ships to tractor trailers. Clean Energy Fuels is a company founded by Boone Pickens has had good but limited success in establishing fueling stations along major highways and Interstates where these tractor trailers can fuel up. However it is not practical for your neighborhood as the demand is too low.

LNG is more pure than natural state Natural gas. it is on average 99% Methane while regular natural gas is about 95%. Further depending on the canisters used there could be a corrosive action inside of them.  But the Liquified Natural gas must be cooled at sub zero temperatures which makes it more expensive. 

The cryogenic temperature  of LNG (think liquid nitrogen freezing) makes it extremely difficult or impossible to add an odorant.Therefore, with no natural odor of its own, there is no way for personnel to detect leaks unless the leak is sufficiently large to create a visible condensation cloud or localized frost formation. (Your home natural gas has a odor added to it so you can immediately sense leaks.)  Further if LNG is stored over an period of time without withdrawal and replenishment the methane content will continuously decrease and the actual physical characteristics of the fuel will change to some extent.

Additionally LNG is more dangerous and requires special permitting to instal the natural gas because of the potential of explosions and the technology necessary to keep it liquid (cold)

I comment Boone Pickens for his vision in Natural Gas uses and his continued efforts with our government to effectively make use of this abundant natural resource. I believe Clean Energy Fuels will be not only profitable this year but for many years to come as his efforts for the Commercial Market will pay off handsomely and will reduce Carbon emissions.

Unfortunately I do not believe it is practical for passenger vehicles  and other smaller commercial vehicles in local neighborhoods.

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CNG is Compressed Natural Gas. Gas in its natural state is not pressurized . Along most of the pipelines and in your home it is pressurized at 60 PSI (pounds per square inch). Three are many municipalities and towns and cities even national deliver services that are using natural gas in their vehicles now.  Some have a compressor on site to make the filing faster and service only their own fleets.

While the benefits of Natural gas is not in question the delivery system is. Since the pipeline is low pressure the fill time is long (often 15-20 minutes or longer) unless there is a compressor and storage available. Even then there would come a time that the demand outstrips the capacity of those pumps. 

Then there is the investment in the pumps required to dispense this gas.  High investment if you must install one in your own home and that is IF your home has Natural gas available. but as I said above SLOW if you pump at the station. Compressed natural gas is abundant, cheap and half the emissions of Oil/gasoline and does not have to be imported.

Last is the weight of the current fuel tanks for CNG in your vehicle. Not nearly as bad as a battery that weighs 100+ pounds, but still heavy and bulky in space requirements.

Still CNG is probably the most effective Alternative Fuel for Vehicles at this time and in the near future.

There is a plan however that can make this the fuel of choice within 18 months that will be proposed at the end of this article.

Hydrogen or H2

THIS is my favorite fuel. With zero emissions it is the best environmentally along with the battery. It was the promise and introduction of H2 Vehicles that caused me to pursue this project on my own for the last 12-14 years. It has tremendous promise.  Sadly we are not ready for it.

There are several prototypes for H2 Fuels. That is what makes it confusing for many. One prototype is where water (specialized ultra clean water Or as we know it H2O with is hydrogen and oxygen) This is put into a process inside of the vehicle where the H2 is filtered out and the electron  fuels the electric motor or fuel cell that then runs the vehicle and runs the ca. When the H2  is reunited with Oxygen  at the end it becomes water(H2O)  again.

The other method is to provide the Vehicle with Hydrogen which is then used to run a fuel cell that also runs the vehicle

IN both of these prototypes there is usually  battery  as one might find in a hybrid today that is able to capture excess energy such as when braking or coasting and the vehicle is equipped with what is easiest to describe as mini generators  of sort that give the energy back to the battery to use in the vehicle.

Unfortunately even though Toyota  and others have developed a limited introduction there has been no infrastructure in place to develop the amount of Hydrogen needed for a large scale production of H2, nor is there an effect distribution model except pumps at existing fueling stations which would have to be  installed at great expense and then a refilling network established to service them.

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Conclusion and Proposed Solution

The above indicates 3 alternative fuels. Below is a possibility of HOW over a brief period of time we can develop then and provide them to all of the United States and other countries with the first full scale production of these vehicles starting with the 2016 models.

I regret I will not be giving the details of the project in this post. I am after all is said and done a business man and hope to establish a business around this project.

If you have read up to know hopefully you have had some of your own ideas of how to make these fuels available to the general public. From my perspective there must be a developmental progress along with Strategic Partnership in the4 following areas:

1/ Establish the best fuel to start with. Personally I believe CNG is appropriate. Given that cost of fuel so low at this time it makes it the most practical of all the fuels to bring 400+ miles per tank and at a continued cost fro the next 5 years under 40 dollars per fill-up.

2/ Develop a delivery system in conjunction with the Auto Manufactures.  Thji8s has been partially done. A hybrid Carbon Fiber  4-5 liter Canister that can be pressurized to 25,000 PSI. The technology has been confirmed. It cannot have aluminum as is traditionally used inside the canister because of the pressure. Nor can it be completely Carbon fiber as the Carbon Fiber becomes porous and would leak. So a new method of construction had already been developed.  I have to that Lamborghini for the seeds to my thought process on this.  (If they want to provide a new on to me in thanks and appreciation I would be happy to have it….LOL)

3/ Develop Strategic Partnerships: Auto Manufactures along with regional filling depots. These will start with the CNG and later be able to be utilized for the  H2 canisters that will follow when the Automotive industry is ready for Hydrogen. It will also take a little while longer to develop the necessary methods to supply enough H2 to fill the estimated 40 million canisters  demand by the second year of operations. to start this phase

4/ Partnership with the 5-600  regional refilling depots that have already been identified for a distribution system comprising 150-250 ,000 fueling stations (this is far greater than the number of existing gas stations)  but easily accomplished under the Business plan section of the Strategic Plan.

5/ Strategic partnership with a natural gas company to supply estimated 20 Billion Cubic Feet of Natural gas per week within 5 years after the start of operations that is roughly a trillion cubic feet per year

6/ The same system of distribution and locations can be used for the hydrogen filling depots and fueling stations as well as intimately Battery distribution when battery size, weight and storage  comes down in weight to between 10 and15 pounds that can give at least 100 miles of operations to a vehicle. This established distribution system system can provide on site recharge stations for exchanging batteries as well as returning batteries to the depot for refurbishing or recycling at the end of a number of charging and recharging cycles.

Every canister will have an RF chip that will identify the source of manufacture, components, usage locations of activity to facilitate distribution model as well as other information that can be sued to effectively maintain these batteries and canisters and stations they reside at.

Remember at the beginning of this article I said “If you cannot solve the problem you are facing, than you are facing the wrong problem. Changing the definition of that problem can lead to alternative solutions that were not previously considered or even dismissed as impractical.” Well hopefully this article inspires you in some way to look outside the immediate problem and find al encompassing solutions in your life and businesses as well. 

As you have read the drawbacks and benefits of each Alternative Fuel, understand these are my observations and opinions from the last 12-14 years. I am not  now nor have I ever been employees or associated with not worked in any capacity in the Automotive, Oil and Gas Industry or  anyone in the businesses I have listed above. ALTHOUGH I was involved on the buyers side of some GM assets (factories) in the early 1990’s .

Some may call this a fantasy. Others have said it may be visionary. I just call it common sense. There has been no real plan in the last dozen years that would make alternative fuels an actual reality. I will stake my life on the fact that this methodology is out best bet to do so and that the plan that has been developed includes the cost of start up and how to fund the entire start up with 18 months.. in time for the 2016 automotive sales season.  I have dug down into the nitty grity details of  auto manufacturing, canister manufacturing, cost analysis, and distribution and supply costs. THIS can be done and can be good for the nation and good for the economy and good for any partners, both strategic and financial.

The Transition from CNG to Hydrogen and Battery revenue streams is planned for throughout the implementation in a seamless manner. . 

NOTE1: Discussion of Ethanol and Bio Fuels such as bio oil were not addressed as it is my belief they are much lesser alternatives for vehicles than the ones listed above

NOTE 2: If there readers who have interest in this type of start-up and want to discuss this project in more detail I encourage you to make contact with me. It is imperative however that you have the necessary political lobbying structure and corporate management techniques as well as access to executive management of those in the automotive manufacturing industry. for as stated above I have no inroads into them.  It is through these inroads that we can effect an extremely almost obscenely low start-up cost for this business. Hence these are critical for any potential partnership with me on this project. If  someone is willing to follow this long thought out and refined process in both the strategic planning and business plan there  is a very realistic expectation an exit strategy that would  have a valuation in excess of 25 Billion Dollars in 5 years time and continued growth for the next 5-7 years and then a flattening for the next 10 before new technology would make this company  antiquated unless adaption is incorporated into the Business plan.

Journalist inquiries are also welcome. However the details of this project cannot be shared without a  confidentiality agreement which would include significant penalties for violation.. but for evaluation purposes I am willing to discuss with anyone the general overall project plan.

Big 3 Auto Makers Fail to Adequately Address Alternative Fuels as Tesla Tries and Tries Again.

Attempts to stimulate the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Markets by GM, Ford, Chrysler (Fiat) and ALL big Automakers are practically non existent because they fail to see the realities of the market and then fail to respond to it. At least Tesla is trying.. but it too missed the mark on its latest try by developing the battery exchange. 

Maybe some of you have seen the recent article this week about Tesla: 

Tesla Introduces Faster ‘Gas Station’ System

It is a system that makes refilling/Recharging the electric battery  fast and efficiently… And by “recharging,” they mean replacing.

REPLACING … as in dropping a Model S’ depleted battery pack — which can weigh half a ton — out from the undercarriage of the vehicle and replacing it with a fully charged one.

Think of it as pulling up to a filling station and instead of sticking a hose into the filler cap and refilling your empty tank, simply replacing the empty gas tank with one that’s full of gas. Only in this case, the gas station is a Tesla Station (a.k.a. a Tesla Supercharger station) and the “gas tank” weighs more than 1,000 pounds.

Tesla previewed the fully automated process at its Hawthorne, Calif., design studio. There are no pumps to pay and the driver never even has to exit the vehicle. Simply pull into the Tesla Station, locate the battery swap spot, follow the on-board prompts, and the battery-swapping machinery takes over from there.

Sitting in a pit in the ground beneath the car is a fully charged battery, which the system prepares for installation as it locates its vehicle’s existing battery pack bolts. The bolts are then unscrewed with the help of “high-precision nut runners,” allowing the existing pack to be lowered into the pit, then the new pack moves into position and is inserted into the car’s body. The bolts are tightened again, and away the car goes.

The whole process takes just over a minute and a half, or about half the time it takes to fill up the average automobile.

You can read the rest of that article here if you want to know a little more…. http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/tesla-launches-battery-swapping-two-minute-recharging-115343291.html

What amazed me in some ways is that it did not reference the Israeli Company called “A Better Place” who was doing this and who went out of business late 2012. 

Reference: http://singularityhub.com/2013/06/09/electric-car-company-better-place-bankrupt-burns-nearly-1-billion/

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http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-05-26/news/39538211_1_israel-corp-car-company-shai-agassi

The concept is a step in the right direction…. but only a step…. and as such I had written this reply below in the comment section  of the article…. BUT for some unknown reason I kept getting error messages and it would not post…. so I am writing it here: 

 From the headline I thought for a moment that Tesla took a new and exciting approach  to making Alternative Fuel vehicles a mass market reality… but nope… this is modeled almost after an Israeli Company the now-defunct “A Better Place” program that went out of business late last year. 

 Sadly BOTH Tesla Electric Vehicles and Traditional Auto Manufactures Ford GM, Nissan, Toyota Chrysler/Fiat who could make Electric, Natural Gas and Hydrogen vehicles viable to the mass market in less than 24 months with a new concept that would provide 100,000+ refueling locations throughout the USA, by changing the current entrenched paradigm by redefining the problems that it BELIEVES it faces or has in this endeavor.

 The myopic mentality of the vehicle manufacturers is more obvious from this issue than any other the industry has faced since the production line innovation of Henry Ford. 

 Anyone want to make a few billion dollars bringing these companies to the table to make alternative fuel vehicles the dominant sales leader in the USA in less than 5 years?? All you have to do is get the manufacturers CEO’s to seriously look at something they have not previouslyconsidered. 

Doing the same thing for 100+ years does not mean it is the only way. SOMETIMES a real change has to occur. But one that will not risk the enterprise itself but allow a rapid change to take place based on infrastructure and demand changes. Current manufactures are not seeing beyond their own methodologies in finding how to be innovative outside the 100 year old structure that fails to adapt to a current world that has the ability to change and modify faster as long as the current paradigm is changed and not destroyed.

Ford, GM and the other traditional manufactures are so far behind this changing world with their old world mentality that I wonder if I will live long enough to see them actually change that demand curve for Alternative duel vehicles in the future.

Telsa has out run the current infrastructure of the country and the TOTAL potential number of households that can “PLUG IN” a vehicle or who can afford low mileage daily usage is led than 20% for EVERYBODY in the electric vehicle market. AND I DO LOVE TESLA and their vehicles.. but I have to face the reality of the current infrastructure and market in their future growth.

The problems are not insurmountable, BUT there has to be accommodation to the viability of a supporting infrastructure. While this battery replacement is a good idea in theory, it fails to take into account the inconvenience and limitations of the ultimate consumer. Tesla is on the right track but it has not taken into account other alternatives that fit better with the Consumer. BUT they are leaps and bounds above the sad and miserable lack luster approach of the big traditional manufactures.

When will someone finally wake up to what I have been proposing for more than 2 years now and take this seriously, and realize there is a huge profit to be made while changing our country to a net exporter of Oil and GAS…. but even more interesting it would allow the company that does what has been suggested the potential to OWN the market. Hence approximately 26 billion in profits from the ancillary products and distribution in less than 10 years.

Think of the same story that made Microsoft what it is today. From a garage to the giant and for the longest time it was never a manufacture of hardware.. only the software necessary to make the critical hardware run. THIS is what can be accomplished is the right people want to make an impact on society AND make money at the same time.

THIS is the kind of Innovation and paradigm changes that the Auto industry needs today but is to afraid to embrace. Boon Pickens was on the path but has chosen the slow growth and failed to really partner with the manufactures. Such failure is gut wrenching to watch… but watch I do until the real innovators take control … after I am dead I presume.

I was trying not to promote myself too much on the article… but in all honestly I HAVE designed the necessary distribution  system for refueling and have developed the strategy as to  HOW to develop those 100,000 PLUS fueling stations.  The technology is not very sophisticated I must admit, BUT the ability to see beyond the current  narrow minded thinking of General Motors (GM), Ford, Chrysler (Fiat) , Honda, Toyota, and Nissan and the others  is something I do quite well and in all humility with a certain “je ne se quois”  or Panache’.

Those who know me remember I have done this type of Strategic Planning in many of the 72 countries I have visited… I have had many successes and met with many leaders of countries and even religions as well as Ministers and CEO’s of NON USA Companies…. yet try to get an American Company  to even acknowledge me let alone to see that while I do not have specific intimate knowledge of the industry  (hence an industry insider)  that I have unique abilities to work cross industry to find solutions to problems and challenges NOT currently adopted by the industry. (yea I know it is called outside the box but I HATE that term …. NO ONE should ever think INSIDE of a box….  it is stifling in there)  Corporate executives need to take off the blinders, break the pattern of myopic vision and explore and see there are so many other things that can be done and better if they ONLY LOOKED.

My Mantra has always been “If you cannot solve the problem you are facing than you are facing the wrong problem. Change the definition of the problem and find solutions that fit .” It is the ART of changing the definition that  gives most people the real challenge…. and believe me it is an art worth more than any sculpture or painting by any old world master if it is done  in a creative and innovative way. this is what is  known in jargon as CHANGING THE PARADIGM.  Changing the way in which things are done. THIS is how I was able to find a way to allow US manufactures the ability to develop Natural Gas and Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles  and bring a new dimension to the electric vehicle market as well. and  then developing so many fueling stations in such as short time

The figure mentioned above is fairly accurate depending on the number of units and the  cost/price construct of the technology…. but 26 Billion dollars in gross revenue can be achieved on an annual basis within 10 years if this project was ever given the opportunity it deserves….  and 26 billion dollars in profits could easily be recognized over the first 10 years as well.

THIS IS MY BLOG…. and I have every right to promote myself here…  and if that makes be a blowhard or obnoxious  than hey  so what…. my blog my rules…. that is life… LOL …. and what makes this so great for me is that I stand by my claim as reasonable and realistic and not some pie in the sky fantasy…. this is real and  can be implemented if even GM. Exxon and one company that I will not mention can all sit down at one table with me and agree that this is the future and should be pursued and developing an implementation agreement and schedule…. and if all were in agreement this project would not require ANY money from GM or Exxon to get it started and operational unless they wanted to share in the company.. but their money is not required or even requested. This project has the potential to be a great private placement  for Goldman or Morgan Stanley or other group that is interested in healthy returns.

I may sound to some to be full of something or other.. but I  have been working on and off  on this for 10 years.. Since Jack Kemp and some of  my associates and myself wanted to buy Citgo from Venezuela (Chavez) and they decided instead to try and do a SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve)(aka Strategic oil reserve) deal with the US Government.. and than everything fell apart because of greed.

This project  of facilitating the development of mass marketing of Alternative Fuel Vehicles has been one of several dream projects of mine… it was always complicated by the HOW part of implementation and then about 9 months ago when I pulled it out again and rethought the project  I was FINALLY able to figure out the missing pieces and how to bring them to fit together to make it work for everybody. The only part left is the most difficult and that is getting someone like a CEO to honestly take a look at the project. Maybe after I am dead someone will decide to do it then…

POST NOTE: Yes this project can make me and others very wealthy… It may surprise those of you who do NOT know me… but this project is not about the money to me… in fact I will not personally keep much of the money at all… I have found that excessive wealth is in effect TOO MUCH  (and TOO MUCH is a tautology  ~ for TOO MUCH by definition is not good.) It can ruin a person and destroy families .. I want to walk the mall and be invisible except for the person I have always been.. so know my net worth.. most do not.. and it is better that way… for what  good does it do a person to be able to afford anything only to have nothing of real meaning… I want to do good.. to bring change.. not to drive a Bentley or try and wear a new Rolex every day.. I don’t need 6 homes or  whatever else uber-wealthy people are supposed to have… I want t leave a better world more than I want to leave wealth and or assets . And I want REAL relationships based on who I am inside not what is inside of my wallet. MONEY in my pocket is not the driving force for me…. it is the “accomplishment” and the results and those will bring the  financial benefits that I can use to make the world slightly better.

I write the above paragraph  first because it is the truth, but second to let anyone that wants to do this project know that while I am not greedy I am not a fool. This project has a value.. a real monetary value  and it is my intention to get that monetary out and be able to use it for others… hence no personal greed but I am no fool either. Also for  those that know me… I have no intention of changing my lifestyle much from what I have lived in the past…  I am and always will be the same man.

New World Strategic Planning for the New Millennium… Are You Ready?

Defining Systems Thinking

 Systems ideas enable us to manage what we cannot control. Organizations today are increasingly complex; they are beyond powers of traditional hierarchical management.  Learning to manage for improvement of the system has become urgent in all fields.  It pays great benefits.

 Systems thinking enables continual improvement, something that old-style management cannot attain. It improves businesses, hospitals, schools, nations, families–even ourselves–in this rapidly changing, increasingly complex and dangerous world.

 Amazingly, systems thinking helps us manage complexity and at the same time improve the quality of life for everyone involved.

 A System

A simple  definition of a system is “two or more parts that work together to accomplish a shared aim.” The key idea is “working together” or interacting.  An organization viewed as a system is not the sum of its departments but the product of interactions among all its elements, including those internal as well as customers and suppliers.

 We live in and are surrounded by systems every day. This “Systems” approach solves so many urgent problems is the first obstacle to accepting and learning systems thinking. It is difficult to believe that there could be one answer for so many apparently different problems.  But the fact is that there are systems solutions for all kinds of enterprises: dangerous hospitals, inadequate schools, manufacturing safer cars, unhappy families, incompetent government agencies and international commissions. 

Social Systems Thinking

Some systems are mechanical, like cars, computers, garage doors, appliances, and toys. Other systems are biological, like plants, trees, birds, fish, animals and human bodies. Still other systems are mental and theoretical, like mathematics, physics, music theory and philosophy.

The most complex systems are social, such as families, sports teams, organizations and nations. Social systems are the most complex because they usually contain and must integrate many mechanical, biological and mental subsystems. Furthermore, managers have to engage members who have their own personal goals as well as the organizational vision.  Personal and organizational goals have to be reconciled.

 Complicated vs. Complex

An interesting approach to understanding systems is to consider the difference between complicated and complex.  An automobile is an example of a complicated system; it has many parts and interactions not readily understood except by an engineer or expert mechanic.  However intricate, a complicated device is ultimately understandable—and predictable.  Complexity enters when a human being becomes part of a system, because the behavior of human beings is unpredictable.  The output of a complex system consisting of an automobile and its driver is never entirely predictable. 

The Social System

Focuse on complex social systems—that is, those with humans. Learn to look at a social system as a whole:

See a system is an interdependent, long-term whole with a life of its own;

Become aware of a system’s hidden connections and interactions;

Understand the complex and often delayed interactions that may go on between cause and effect;

See a system in its wider social environment (including customers, suppliers, competitors, government regulators and technological constraints);

Focus not on solving the problems of individual people or parts but understanding their interactions;

Establish a cooperative environment in which people are rewarded for pursuing continual improvement of processes, the larger system, and themselves–and never punished for mistakes in the course of attempts to improve processes;

Use data to understand system performance in place of opinions and custom.

A Fundamental Change: Transformation

This approach is fundamentally different from traditional management, which served so well in the past.  It is an original and unique theory for managing a complex social system in a rapidly changing world.  It requires that we learn to see the world, organizations, our families and even ourselves—all social systems—with new eyes.  This new kind of seeing looks for hidden connections and interactions, and anticipates distances in time and space between cause and effect.  To see differently calls for, not new management tools, but a transformation in thinking.

 Cultivation of new eyes to see larger systems and the global environment is more important than ever in our increasingly complex and dangerous world, as evidenced by the continuing global economic crisis, the difficulties of achieving an affordable and safe healthcare system, the intricacies of protection from terrorist attacks while cultivating trust with Muslim nations, and understanding the limits of technologies such as deep-water oil drilling. 

 Systems theory demands great emotional and mental changes in seeing the world as a system made up of other systems and everyone as part of multiple systems.

 The change from traditional management to systems thinking has been compared to Copernicus’ declaration that the earth was not the center of the universe, but a planet orbiting the sun in an incredibly larger universe. That new worldview took centuries for people to absorb.  Like the systems view, other discoveries have challenged conventional wisdom, e.g., Darwin’s theory that humans evolved from other animals and Freud’s proposition that we do not know much of what or why we think and feel and act. All have required decades, even centuries for debate and understanding.

 An American Idea

In the early 1900’s a pioneer in Social Systems Thinking observed the benefits of continual improvement of farming practices taught to his neighbors by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s extension service. This government-sponsored education in best farming practices allowed America to become the world’s leading producer of food and fiber and was the basis of our successful economy. He would later remind audiences that the West was settled by cooperating townspeople at barn-raisings and quilting bees, not by loner cowboys shooting each other and Indians, as Hollywood movies would have it. The Amish Community  is similar and still exists today. 

The Great Western Sugar Co. would take newspaper ads to advise the farmers when to plant, thin and harvest their sugar beets so they would get the best crop. This led Toyota to work WITH their suppliers and customers rather than go for the lowest price or highest profit.

These principles are the foundation of the success of world-renowned organizations such as Toyota, Proctor & Gamble, Harley-Davidson, Hillerich & Bradsby, Ritz Carlton, and other leading corporations.

A Dr. Deming has a System  of 14 Points of Profound Knowledge, and practice of continual improvement comprise a revolutionary management philosophy, which is essential in the 21st century. Without knowledge of this philosophy and theory, no organization (or system) will compete successfully over the long term—regardless of its investment in Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing or other quality improvement tools.

 BUT things can go wrong as well.. as in the Toyota debacle of 2010  where it was widely believed that it happened because management stopped practicing the principles of Toyoto’s former Managers in favor of short-term profits and rapid gains in market share.  There are similarities to the failings of the financial services industry and the sacrifice of the news media to size of market and the bottom line.

 It is not an easy change to change the way a company runs or operates… nor is it easy to see the world from a different perspective than all your peers…. but always remember:

“No one has to change. Survival is optional.”