I've never been enthusiastic on cold fusion euphoria when some reputable institutions went quite deeply onto it. If there is any scientific "tulip mania" similar to the investors, that is as far as I think the cold fusion fits the bill. On the other hand, businessmen are always in need of projects and dumping dirt and waste into rivers at will is still the norm in many developing countries where goods are produced cheaply, like in Bangladesh or China, and then imported to the USA. Russ George appears like a typical businessman with tendency for novelty and high risk ventures on the frontiers of economy. As such it does not appear totally out of order as often the craziest business projects deliver the best returns for the venture capitalist who ventures to stick his head out.
The euphoria over cold fusion laid aside, this Sept 2006 Russ George powerpoint raises many positive and commendable environment points unlike tar sands, or clean coal, or biofuel projects, so I think we should not be so partisan. This is a bit like President Mahmoud Ahamadinejad and the Iranian Parliament who prefer to let their oil taps to stay closed down than to be bullied by outside powers. Who will win the argument over our use of fossil fuels? Every day the Iranian taps for crude oil are closed down speaks volumes for the rest of the world that the use of fossil fuels is bad for our world. It is the rest of the world craving for the oil, not necessarily the Iranian obsession to sell it. Is it really necessary for grannies to drive pick up trucks to supermarket to get their groceries in the USA by the Arab oil? I think it is high time to stop criticising the dissidents among us and look at the mirror who really creates the biggest mess with CO2. Even without atmospheric deposition of CO2, economy based on fossil fuels will run out its course eventually, and as snow and ice melts away from the Arctic ever faster, soon our coastal settlements are threatened and the space of economic growth freezes up. I think they still appear largely behind the concept and enthusiasm of Russ George trying to revive the lost salmon stocks and give merit to him under great pressure - whether or not the measures taken are effective. I think we should plan more, criticise less. As the Arctic snow and ice cover is heading towards record loss (i.e. Siberia is heading towards all-time record low snow cover and high temperatures for this time of year) while the Arctic Ocean remains in relatively thin and weak ice cover north of Siberia. We will need geoengineering to save the sea ice fairly soon, if that is not a lost call already, seeing the extreme warming in Siberia. Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 14:21:38 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [geo] Re: Haida Salmon Restoration Corp. | Haida announce termination of Russ George Russ George maintains a website where among other things he hosts a video of John Disney, who is now President and CEO of the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation, at some time prior to John et.al. forcing Russ off the ship, telling the world what a great guy Russ George is. The best material starts at minute 1:25 of this video. A transcript: [John Disney is speaking]: 'I'd like to say at this time that the international media and the national media seems to have focused on Russ George who we brought in as our chief scientist. I want to make this emphatically clear: Russ George did not, I say did not, come to us to dupe us or sell us a bill of goods. We approached him. We based that on ten years of work with him in other fields. I've known Russ for over ten years, and I'll tell you something that is very rare. He's never once lied to me. He's only told me the truth. He has a great integrity, and he's never let us down. And every time he's told me something I've thought was unbelieveable, I've checked it out and he's always been right. And I challenge anyone else in the corporate world to come up with that about a person. Russ has one aim in life. He wants to try to make the planet a better place. That's it. I don't care what else you read" [the end] John, having known Russ for over ten years, must have heard Russ tell his circa 2006 - 2007 story about the D2FusionGen cold fusion powered home heating unit that would in the "next few years", i.e. "very few" be offered for sale by a publicly traded Russ George company. John must have "checked it out", and John must have discovered that Russ was indeed right. (see an actual image of the prototype "concept" D2FusionGen home heating unit on slide 27 of this Sept 2006 Russ George powerpoint presentation) John may be the next official the Haida have to throw off their ship..... On Friday, May 24, 2013 1:56:41 AM UTC-7, andrewjlockley wrote:http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1170825/haida-announce-termination-of-russ-george Haida announce termination of Russ George VANCOUVER, May 23, 2013 /CNW/ - The board of directors of the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation (HSRC) today announced that it has removed Mr. Russ George as a director of the company. In addition, the HSRC has terminated Mr. George's employment as an officer of the corporation.John Disney, who currently serves as President, has been appointed interim CEO.... We have a responsibility not only to the shareholders but to the citizens of Old Massett and Haida Gwaii to get it right", said Disney. 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