The Practicing Futurist  

Some important projects listed below, for the future, and the here and now. 

These require funding, and since the U.S. government still has not yet paid me for previous projects, these cannot be done with my private funding. Major sources and resources will be required.

1.

First, regarding my special "jet / rocket" engines for my TAV. I sent in a sketch of my TAV body style over 44 years ago, but I never showed them the engines it takes to make this vehicle work. Recent aviation literature (approx. 1990) says that the GE company took 10 years and $10 Billion to build the GE-90 engines for the Boeing 777 or other planes. They were experienced engine builders with people and facilities waiting for work. For my engines it would obviously take somewhat more to first build the facilities and gather the people & special equipment here. So it has to get started soon or it will never occur in our lifetime. Lockheed has their Skunk Works, Boeing started something called Phantom Works - I have a name planned for my similar division. 

NASA’s needs for space capability of this type seem fairly obvious. Those needs and mission frequencies would certainly increase with such a capability being available. Especially in making trips to Mars in a few months instead of years; and the ability to act on that near-real time information.

2.

Another project: funding and specialists needed in the areas of paleontology, archeology, historical biology, etc.
Purpose: use obvious historical / geological / fossil records to modify existing accepted theories of Dinosaur Extinction by Meteor Impact, and modify Darwinism vs. Creationist debates. Results in requiring the re-writing most text books on the subject. (or read my TAV CONUS sci-fi story to get a hint of these theories.)

Found what appears to be a fossilized Brazil Nut. I thought it was something else, maybe an egg yolk, until I noticed the triangular sides of the shell sectors surrounding the nut meat. Just a crumbling rock sample for viewing, not intended to be part of any proof of the above paleo project.
Any other guesses out there?

3.

Being a visionary, I also get internal visions of how to synthesize petroleum. Instead of having to drill for it or disrupt nature, we could simply produce it as a laboratory system or brew it in giant kettles.

Would this allow modification to prevent emission problems? Don't know until we get the first part going!

Estimated cost - lets say the price of 5 large refineries.

Estimated return - lets use a guesstimate of financial returns equal to all of OPEC, every year, from now forward.

Eliminate dependence on foreign oil? Yes. 

Disruptive to the existing economic pattern ? Yes - but disruptive technologies usually prove to be greatly beneficial to mankind. Existing parties would also be participants in distribution. So this would simply change the methods of production and delivery, and eliminate the economic / political manipulator factor; or simply bend the supply & demand equation a bit.

4.

A unique design for wind turbine energy that should prove much more efficient than existing designs. This project probably has the lowest start-up requirements of anything I have in my mainstream business development R&D portfolio. This also has a nice, long term, cash cow electric utility income stream.

5.

New Dooms Day Theory: I have a new Dooms Day Theory, one that rivals Global Warming and Nuclear Winter. Research should begin immediately to see if there is any truth to it; and determine what immediate actions need to be taken to save mankind. MAS LTD R&D needs funding for at least two NASA scientists to develop the concept, then about four satellites to take measurements; launched as soon as possible since two of them would require 1-2 years time to reach their parking orbits. Posted this notice here on 01-28-06, but have been suggesting it to various entities for perhaps a year or more; but none of them appear to result in being either funding or scientific sources.

More Later

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