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Timeline for Ten Years:

TM #1:

1.    Use the first year to sponsor a contest for designs for the ocean generators. Anyone can submit a design; it can be a CAD/CAM entry or a sketch. There would be a lucrative prize.
2.    2nd and 3rd years to build models and test them.
3.    4th and 5th year to build and test 4-8 prototypes in North and South coasts of Atlantic and Pacific and in the Gulf.
4.    Years 6 through 10, forge a partnership with industry to build the equivalent of 100 Hoover Dams. Work with GE, Westinghouse, whoever to build rigs with generators, but the U.S. government will own the patents and world distribution rights. The American people will invest billions in this product the first ten years, but after that this system will save the American people billions and make them billions in profits.

TM#2:

1.    Will work with all available talent, and engineers worldwide to develop the most efficient electrolysis factory. Year one, accept all designs submitted in a contest. There should be a lucrative prize.
2.    Year 2 and 3 will build computer models and small-scale models.
3.    Year 4 and 5 will build and test several prototypes, as deemed necessary. For example, two perhaps three designs are seen as promising and are worthy of testing. If one design blows the others away, then so be it.
4.    Years 6 through 10 build full-scale production units as needed to supply the nation with enough hydrogen to replace all gasoline, diesel, coal, and natural gas needs in the United States.

TM#3

1.    Meet with all of the power companies in the country. Decide upon the most affordable method to plug into the grid. Apparently, power lines are more efficient in moving electricity around the country than piping or trucking hydrogen, i.e. less loss of energy.
2.    Lead development of a pipeline product that is cost-effective and made for hydrogen transmission. Work with oil and gas companies to make this happen.
3.    TM3 must come up with a plan to feed power to areas with plentiful water and then site the hydrogen factories and build pipelines out from these. The most likely scenario would be to build these factories all around the coastlines toward the center of each state and the country. Alaska and Hawaii have lots of water to supply their generation. Also, electricity would be transmitted into the center of the country to the Mississippi/Ohio System and the Great Lakes where factories will be set up along side the plentiful water then hydrogen pipelines would branch out from this river system both East and West to complete the coverage of the country.
4.    Terminals would be set up all along the pipeline to load trucks to disperse hydrogen locally to each MSA.
5.    Planning must be completed by the end of year 4 and beginning of year 5, once the full-scale models are judged successful, then start laying pipe as quickly as possible, beginning with the areas that will have hydrogen factories operational the soonest.
6.    TM3 would set the price of electricity. Every power company would pay the same price per Kilowatt. Every customer in the country would pay the same amount. The costs of electrical power should be pushed down appreciably to give all the citizens a break and yet yield the power companies a reasonable and stable profit. An extra break would be given to companies who bury their ugly overhead lines in urban areas (not transmission lines but the ones on the city streets).

TM#4

1.    Years 1 through 5, work with all engine manufacturers to certify every engine and vehicle for refit with hydrogen for fuel. All must work together and all will share any improvements. Each manufacturer will be responsible for developing a certification curriculum for their engines or vehicles and also responsible for stating clearly such models which are not safe for modification to run on hydrogen. No one will make any company participate but it will be a public forum. Those who do not participate will not be privileged to the most update data. Those who do contribute will be permitted in writing by TM4 to claim their helpfulness in their advertising. He or She might even do ads for them for free, just about the rightful claims.
Ex. A grateful country would like to thank GM today (or substitute Toyota, CAT, Cummins, Harley, etc.) for their improvement in compressing hydrogen into a smaller tank using this unique process…..For this, as a Team Master and a citizen of the great country would like to offer my thanks.

The emphasis early on would be for vehicles with dual tanks, hydrogen and
gas/diesel with a dial to switch from one to the other. Imagine a tractor trailer
truck with a diesel tank on one side and hydrogen on the other, with the ability to
switch back to diesel when not in an area where hydrogen has been provided.
Families might dedicate one vehicle to hydrogen for around town and a gasoline
powered vehicle for trips, in the first ten years. The changeovers would be market
driven not by tax incentives. Price hydrogen fuel so cheaply that the math is
simple. Google BMW Hydrogen for example of same engine with gasolien and hydrogen tanks.

2. Parallel to the development of hydrogen fueled vehicles, TM4 must develop
hydrogen stations and tanks and pumps for dispensing the product safely. Ideally,
it should be self-serve, but if not then training should be established for certifying
attendants.
3. TM4 would oversee the modifying or building of Green stations. Every station in the country will pay the same rack price, only the state equivalent of road taxes and the freight from the terminal would be different. TM4 would set the price.

This program would cost billions and more billions, especially in the ramping up years five through10. I would not even put it in the Budget. Let the Fed loan the money to the National Power Corp. After years 8, 9, and 10, significant revenue would begin to reverse the trend. Once completed, over the next 30 years, the money would be repaid and with interest back to the Fed and the American people who will benefit as will their children. This is a once in a lifetime chance to take back control of our energy fate as a country and keep the rewards and profits from our endeavors and return it back to the people to do the most good. . Now is a new time. And if global warming is caused in anyway by man’s endeavors then this should help to right the balance. The sky will be true blue again.

My own design would start from an anemometer, which would catch the current regardless of what direction from which it came. The cups might be a 100 feet high or have a stack of anemometers a 100 feet high. I also have another idea based on an ice cream freezer. A cornucopia might work to utilize the Ventura Effect to increase the speed of the current over the turbine. There might be a way to stack the turbines around the shaft.

Looking at countries in the world, which have a long coastline. Obviously, Great Britain, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, and Indonesia, India is all but surrounded by ocean as is Africa and South America. Europe all a long coastline, particularly if one includes the Mediterranean. There is a lot of ocean in this world. With cheap energy then we will have to make the choice of ever increasing traffic or mass transit (covered elsewhere).

It is true; these ideas might never work out. But what if they do?

This changes everything.