Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Innovative Energy Sources – What is the next step?

Do you realize that while your reading this post, tech savvy people in India and China are buying American products…networked products; and using these products to communicate more efficiently they are building large economies that rely on massive energy consumption? The next logical step is that they will no longer need us. Unless we as a nation remain the most tech savvy country, by applying ourselves individually to an on-going reeducation program, we will end up picking up the crumbs. The beauty of it is that we can. But will we? We cannot expect to stay on top by grumbling about jobs going overseas or the price of gas skyrocketing. We will stay on top by getting back to the basics of math, science, and engineering in our feeder school systems. The result is an innovative core grounded in science at the university level and innovation in business. President Kennedy proposed putting a man on the moon. The result was the technology behind the computer today. We need to embrace a new vision; one that will catapult us into the next series of technical breakthroughs. A natural proposal is developing new energy sources and the ramifications will be astounding as that goal is reached.