June 16th, 2010
Why more DOE support could kill Hydrogen Convergence
Climate Change Confounders like to ask, “If hydrogen convergence is so great why can’t it survive it on its own. Why does it need government handouts to make it?” The kind of entrepreneurial companies that are needed to deploy hydrogen infrastructure will have problems finding funding as long as the federal government is the major stakeholder.
Some of us remember this scenario from the early days of the commercial Internet. Advocates split themselves into two camps. They were the ones who fought for universal access and those who believed in the goodness of the entrepreneurial spirit. The ones who fought for universal access are still fighting even though the dotcom bubble has come and gone.
The division was so great that some companies went out of business because they refused to service government customers when they lost their dotcom ones. As readers and social media followers know, we see hydrogen convergence as a means of fixing many of the problems caused by the Internet class system. However, we have to live by our American Ideals and push for market independence.
We would advise community leaders and industry pioneers that support for young entrepreneurs who are interested in hydrogen convergence is a much better use of time and energy. We would suggest that they look to solving the problems associated with transitioning to a more hydrogen-friendly business environment by integrating the young people who will someday lead it. Besides, there’s nothing wrong with using a fresh pair of eyes.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: American Ideals, entrepreneurial spirit, hydrogen, young entrepreneursMay 24th, 2010
Promoting the Upside of Hydrogen Convergence to Climate Pessimists
This has been a bad couple of weeks for the confounders at the DOE and the fossil fuel extenders. Their hopes of expanding the number of offshore drilling leases have been dashed by their lack of expertise in capping the oil leak and containing the spill. We at the ebTDesign Forum suggest taking the fight to confounders by promoting the benefits of hydrogen convergence to climate pessimists.
Climate pessimists are those people who believe that climate instability can’t be stopped and that climate change is inevitable. These are people who are saying “I told you so” to the Obama Administration. Some would say they are delighting a little too much in the destruction of both natural habitat and professional livelihoods of Gulf Coast residents.
We would advise our readers and social media followers not to demonize climate pessimist because many of them could be categorized as downsiders. This means that as benefits of hydrogen convergence are better known they will become avid supporters. We would suggest that hydrogen convergence colonist take this time to promote the benefits of hydrogen convergence to anyone who doesn’t see an end in sight for America’s dependence on fossil fuel.
Climate pessimists worry that their children will not have the lifestyle that they have. They are frustrated because the only options they have been given require them to embrace the current economic “death spiral.” The time is right to promote the fact that hydrogen convergence is the only climate change mitigation strategy that leads to sustainable job growth. The only one based on American Ideals.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: American Ideals, climate pessimists, Gulf Coast, hydrogenMay 11th, 2010
Can Hydrogen Convergence restore the Legacy of American Ideals?
Transitioning from one long wave to another, by definition, leads to massive creative destruction. One of the first casualties of this process may be American Ideals about business leadership. Last week, it was announced that Nitin Nohria will become the first foreign born dean of the Harvard Business School.
This means that Harvard is outsourcing its leadership development activity. At a time when the United States must regain its entrepreneurial footing and become more competitive in the post-Globalization marketplace, this most august institution of higher education has decided to abdicate its responsibilities for developing American youth.
Further more, we at the ebTDesign Forum propose that America’s legacy in business leadership will be determined by how it handles long waves. Does the business community embrace hydrogen convergence or does it run from it. Post-Globalization, countries are going have to identify unique ways of developing leadership capacity which reflect regional differences in order to advance and/or maintain their standing in the marketplace.
The natural tendency will be to wait and see what will happen. The transnational business strategy of collecting best practices will only erode our current post-Globalization positioning. However, adhering to American Ideals would force the United States to confront the challenges associated with hydrogen convergence head on. Success will cement wavering belief in American Ideals and secure the American Dream until the next long wave.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: American Ideals, American-Dream, hydrogen, leadership capacityApril 15th, 2010
Hydrogen Convergence leads to Family-sized Energy Security
Up until now, Americans have been led to believe that strategic energy security is the only thing that matters. There is no discussion of family-sized energy security in any of the Obama Administration’s energy plans except for a call for more energy conservation. This will all change with the emergence of hydrogen convergence.
We at the ebTDesign Forum would advise our readers and social media followers that any discussion of hydrogen convergence must include a few comments about family-sized energy security. Community leaders would do well to mention at least three components that address the concerns of working and middle class families in their business cases.
The first component of family-sized energy security is personal transport or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. This is the killer application for the hydrogen convergence movement. The dirty little secret is that during man-made and natural disasters the best means of protecting your family is being able to simply pack up and leave.
Manufacturing job growth is the second component. As long as the working and middle class have well paying jobs, they can afford hydrogen convergence-based applications for their families’ energy security. Domestic cleantech manufacturing also ensures availability during tough times and high demand.
Finally, the third component is massively distributed power generation (MDPG). Hydrogen cars can all be fitted with peripherals for supplying auxiliary power for your family’s use. And in a pinch, they can provide necessary disaster relief for a few of your neighbors. This leads to a family-sized energy security strategy based on American Ideals of self-reliance and neighbor helping neighbor.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: American Ideals, energy security, hydrogen, MDPGMarch 24th, 2010
Don’t Under Estimate the Speed of Hydrogen Convergence
With the stroke of his pen, President Barack Obama officially kicked off the hydrogen convergence era. By signing the healthcare bill, President Obama signaled a start to fixing the next great challenge facing America which is reducing climate instability. We at the ebTDesign Forum applaud the Obama Administration’s efforts to establish a “small and micro business safety net.”
Now, funds that were dedicated to exploiting the profitability of the healthcare system will flow into hydrogen convergence and the cleantech sector in general. During the first decade of the 21 Century, the healthcare industry was deemed a growth sector. This caused costs to explode but so did innovation. We at the ebTDesign Forum expect to see the same effort go into fixing climate instability and influencing climate sensitivity.
Recently there was a headline that read that hydrogen convergence will take 40 years. And, climate change confounders would like you to think that this is true. However, we would like to remind these so-called gurus and industry experts about the trouble with under estimating the American people. We would ask them to read about not just the Internet generation but the Greatest Generation during the War Years.
HBO is broadcasting a series called the Pacific which chronicles the lives of fighting Marines. However, it would be better for confounders to look at the war effort here in the Continental United States to judge the American Spirit and its willingness to fight for the future. The battle for healthcare was a great win for President Obama but it was an even bigger win for the American people and goes a long way in restoring the nation’s trust in American Ideals.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: American Ideals, climate instability, Greatest Generation, hydrogenMarch 15th, 2010
Avoiding Protectionism via Hydrogen Convergence
This weekend the mainstream media was all abuzz about Senator Chuck Schumer’s decision to support stronger “Buy American” protection for stimulus funding. They condemned the act as misguided. We at the ebTDesign Forum would suggest that it is simply misdirected. Further, we propose that the American people would be better served by increasing investment in hydrogen convergence.
Many times in the past we at the ebTDesign Forum have subjected current events to the lessons learned from the Great Depression. We have invoked the phrase “Ghosts of Smoot-Hawley” to ask the question, “Knowing what we know now about protectionism and its P2P Economy impact would we make this decision?” The answer is a resounding no. It does not adhere to American Ideals.
The days of using American wealth to coerce other countries into following our lead is over for all but the poorest countries. The political will for using tax dollars in this manner is definitely over. Post-Globalization, the United States has to lead based on its values. This includes a belief in free and open competition also a willingness to allow markets to take their course.
The United States has already lost its leadership position in the wind and solar industries. Any effort that would distort these markets is misdirected. We at the ebTDesign Forum propose that a better solution would be heavier investment in hydrogen convergence because we still hold a leadership position because of our R&D community. To do otherwise will set us on a path to repeat the mistakes that led to the Great Depression and to so much hardship worldwide.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: American Ideals, hydrogen, post-Globalization, smoot-hawleyJanuary 27th, 2010
Hydrogen Convergence of Internet Scale Applications
During the dotcom boom, there was a special kind of distributed application that could handle millions of online simultaneous users. This kind of service was dubbed an “internet scale application” by those of us who built the infrastructure for them. It required a different kind of network thinking and a willingness to try things that had never been tried before.
We at the ebTDesign Forum suggest that hydrogen convergence will need the same level of design and engineering effort. Further, we propose that the companies which pioneered the Internet Scale Applications have provided us with models for rapidly deploying game-changing infrastructure. They have also shown us the sand traps where investment dollars can get lost.
Yesterday’s Internet mavericks like AOL, Netscape, and Yahoo gave way to today’s giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter. Today’s icons of American innovation will undoubtedly pass the torch to tomorrow’s hydrogen infrastructure success stories. It is a part of the post-Globalization transition that will produce the next wave of sustainable job growth.
These new stewards of the “internet scale mindset” will need to solve the challenges associated with hydrogen convergence of the national highway system, the international air transport system and global maritime operations. They will be honored with the task of restoring the possibility for achieving the American Dream and living American Ideals. Just like those who have come before them.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: American Ideals, hydrogen, post-GlobalizationJanuary 20th, 2010
Hydrogen Convergence via Small Town Sea Turtles
As long time readers know, we at the ebTDesign Forum are big fans of the sea turtle concept employed by the Chinese. Young Chinese nationals go overseas for education and then return home to raise families. We at the ebTDesign Forum propose using this same strategy to reinvigorate rural communities.
The United States has outstanding research universities and other educational opportunities in our large cities. So there is a natural internal migration that takes place with many young adults. The problem has always been how to entice these young people to return home to raise families.
At the ebTDesign Forum, we suggest the answer is hydrogen convergence. Assuming reduced dependence on foreign oil will free up monies for deployment of high-speed Internet access, small town sea turtles could continue their careers and contribute to America’s success in the post-Globalization marketplace.
Like the frontier of the late 1800’s, rural communities need the skills and energy that young families can bring with them when they return. These young adults will benefit in the long run from the slower pace of life and more time to spend with their families. They will also thrive on the economic spillover from hydrogen convergence and once again be allowed to live American Ideals.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: American Ideals, hydrogen, post-Globalization, sea turtlesJanuary 18th, 2010
Why Americans need New Hydrogen Convergence Jobs
Many readers who have just learned of the hydrogen convergence movement ask why America needs hydrogen convergence jobs. They want to know why early investment in the GreenTech Sector is so important. Prudence would suggest that the United States wait to until things pan out before committing. The answer is avoidance of “factor price equalization.”
Factor price equalization is the downward pressure placed on wages in industrialized countries by the post-Globalization marketplace. In a multinational market, the means of production like labor will eventually become approximately the same. This helps developing and emerging economies approach the same standard of living as industrialized countries.
Unregulated hydrogen convergence will lead to unrestricted innovation on the same order as the Internet Revolution. This will create new jobs and new industry off-ramps into the GreenTech Sector. The participants in these new occupations will be able to charge a premium for there services.
The new hydrogen convergence jobs will reset the wage scale that factor price equalization has compressed. Whole regions of the country will be able to get off life support and contribute to the success of the United States in the post-Globalization marketplace. The working and middle class in communities that support GreenTech clusters will once again be able to live American Ideals.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: American Ideals, GreenTech, hydrogen, post-Globalization