Many of you know I have been a proponent of "Green Energy". Yesterday, I wrote General Motors an e-mail letter which follows:
(Note: I was constrained by the total number of characters allowed in my feedback to GM. I modified it below so as to not abbreviate some of the words. The basic ideas expressed have not been changed from my original note.)
To The General Motors Marketing Department
GM should partner with Solar Companies around the world to help people convert to Green energy (sustainable).
Electric Vehicle (EV) Consumers would benefit as follows:
1) They (would) "Fix" the price of energy at the time they purchase their Solar panels.
2) The Solar Panel payback period is decreased, because the electricity
usage is increased. (by buying Electric power instead of gasoline.)
3) They eliminate forever the cost of buying gasoline, and are therefore immunized from future price hikes of gasoline.
4) Once the Solar panels have paid for themselves (over the payback
period) the owners can drive for free! Their EV is charged everyday by
Sunshine!
5) With an intelligent charge controller, the homeowner can run his
house appliances from his car battery when needed. (This is NOT a new
idea, but is still a good idea.)
6) This is a patriotic idea because it helps to make our air and water
cleaner, and it makes the USA less dependent on foreign oil.
I did receive a nice canned reply from the GM Marketing Department.
What do you think? Join in the discussion. Leave a comment below the blog entry!
R. Allan Worrell
Author: Father John's Gift
e-mail: alw3141@gmail.com
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
My (New) Heroine! Hedy Lamarr !!!!
I hadn't known about Hedy Lamarr except that she had been mentioned in a few Mel Brooks films. Although I never understood the references to her, I never forgot her unusual name. I never heard of anyone named, "Hedy", before.
But this last week I read an article in Time Magazine about Hedy Lamar which blew my socks off!!! It turns out that Hedy was a co-inventor (along with a music composer named, "George Antheil") of the spread-spectrum broadband algorithm which is present in WiFi, CDMA, GSM and Blue Tooth algorithms, incorporated in all wireless routers and cell phone products all over the world!
How, and why did Hedy do this?
It turned out that Hedy was once married to an Austrian engineer who worked for a munitions plant which was taken over by the Nazis during WWII. Hedy fled both her husband, and the Nazis and landed in Hollywood USA where she continued her acting career and was cast in several major movies and was billed as, "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World." But she must have known a good deal about the Nazis' electronic communication protocol, and she wanted to help the Allies war effort by creating a torpedo communication protocol which would be immune to the Nazis electronic jamming techniques. She, and her co-inventor patented the idea but gave their spread spectrum algorithm free of charge to the US Navy.
As they say, "the rest is history"!!! It just goes to show you what you can do, and the impact that we can all have upon the world by having a unique idea and acting upon it. Hedy Lamarr should be an inspiration to us all.
R. Allan Worrell
Author: Father John's Gift
e-mail: alw3141@gmail.com
References:
1. Ben Cosgrove, Time.com, http://time.com/3881293/hedy-lamarr-stardom-scandal-and-one-amazing-invention/ , accessed 11/01/2017.
2. Author Unknown, Wikipedia.com, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr, accessed 11/01/2017.
But this last week I read an article in Time Magazine about Hedy Lamar which blew my socks off!!! It turns out that Hedy was a co-inventor (along with a music composer named, "George Antheil") of the spread-spectrum broadband algorithm which is present in WiFi, CDMA, GSM and Blue Tooth algorithms, incorporated in all wireless routers and cell phone products all over the world!
How, and why did Hedy do this?
It turned out that Hedy was once married to an Austrian engineer who worked for a munitions plant which was taken over by the Nazis during WWII. Hedy fled both her husband, and the Nazis and landed in Hollywood USA where she continued her acting career and was cast in several major movies and was billed as, "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World." But she must have known a good deal about the Nazis' electronic communication protocol, and she wanted to help the Allies war effort by creating a torpedo communication protocol which would be immune to the Nazis electronic jamming techniques. She, and her co-inventor patented the idea but gave their spread spectrum algorithm free of charge to the US Navy.
As they say, "the rest is history"!!! It just goes to show you what you can do, and the impact that we can all have upon the world by having a unique idea and acting upon it. Hedy Lamarr should be an inspiration to us all.
R. Allan Worrell
Author: Father John's Gift
e-mail: alw3141@gmail.com
References:
1. Ben Cosgrove, Time.com, http://time.com/3881293/hedy-lamarr-stardom-scandal-and-one-amazing-invention/ , accessed 11/01/2017.
2. Author Unknown, Wikipedia.com, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr, accessed 11/01/2017.
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