Bill Gates said if he could have just ONE WISH, it would be this.
Ted Turner said if we don't do something about it that we're going to start eating each other.
John Doerr, a prominent investor said he feared for what his daughter was going to inherit if it wasn't fixed and he cried in front of a room full of people.
Global Warming. Climate Change. We're doomed.
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I figured I better do something about something I don't even believe in.
Fight the system in the best way I know how - which is not to argue with people over whether or not something does or doesn't exist, it's to find a solution - even if a solution isn't needed. And I did.
Years passed by. It took almost 8 years to wrap my own mind around what I was thinking.
Eventually, I figured I needed to tell someone. So I contacted an attorney (good thing I had a job, she was $440 an hour) and went to see her saying only, "I need one hour of your time."
That's all I could afford.
I brought in my materials, presentation and props and sat down. She brought in another attorney. They were both very prominent IP, Patent attorneys. One a litigator, one a search, write 'em up, and file guy.
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Before I began I felt like I needed to just throw it out there - "I'm not crazy."
I actually went to great length to let them know that what they were about to hear was something new. Something they'd never seen before. Something they'd never heard. And though there might be a moment where they look at me like, "Okay, we have a nut in the room", that I was perfectly sane and wasn't some crackpot out of my mind conspiracy guy.
I was sane, and all I would be talking to them about was simple math. That's all it was. Math. The kind where 2+2=4.
And with that, I began my presentation. 30 plus slides which I basically read to them because it was all explained, in great detail, right there.
It has videos, it has pictures. It has math. It has reasoning. It has more videos and more pictures.
By the time it was over, I think they were floored. Flabbergasted would more be the word.
It was if they were slackjawed and couldn't speak. WOW.
I wasn't worried about being a kook anymore. I wasn't worried about anything but having to pay the bill at that point. They were blown away. And I had gotten 8 years of my life off my chest to people who couldn't say a word to anyone else.
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After that experience I set out to find someone in the field who could help me.
No, WOULD help me, bring my little project along. I emailed this person and that person and the other person and several in-between.
I got some responses, most prominently from the guy who built the largest solar company in the world. He gave some good advice and I took it.
I emailed more people. And even more.
Finally I came across a guy that's done $850 million in deal flow. Had over 50 businesses. Made a small fortune. He agreed to sign a prenup - an NDA - Non-Disclosure Agreement.
It's very difficult to get guys like Wade to sign a prenup. But he did. So we made a schedule for me to give my presentation online (he in Texas, me in Florida).
We met that morning online and within minutes, I was giving my presentation. I had emailed him a .pdf so he could follow along, but we were also using his GoToMeeting with screen share and talking on the phone.
I expected to get 15, maybe 20 minutes tops. Almost an hour later, and many questions, he has to go. But I think he was pretty blown away.
You don't stay on the phone like that and ask so many questions unless there's something there you're interested in. No one waste their time. Especially guys like that.
He's not ready to move or make a commitment. He's already making money in the space. Why solve it?
My argument of course is because if you do, you will be bigger than everything else because all of that will practically disappear and you'll own the market.
Suppose it's hard to give up a sure gravy train and disrupt your own business.
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I need to do something to get this going. So I start searching in my town and find a guy down the road.
I sent an email to the local guy. He's a very wealthy guy and he runs a TED like event in town once a year. Bunch of prominent speakers come in - from the famous to the well educated.
He charges a lot of money to get in to see these speakers. People who just bloviate about a bunch of stuff they might just care about, but not unless they are being paid.
The idea of his event is to "imagine solutions" (I'm in SWFL, so you get the idea) - they actually don't want to find solutions because when I emailed the guy and told him I actually had a solution after nearly 8 years, hundreds of hours of research and thousands of pages of material read, he said, "nah ...." Didn't even want to listen. "That's not what we do". (I still have the email somewhere, but that's a close quote)
Lesson?, and it's not a new one: To SOME it's best to realize there's more money in the struggle. The non-solution. The "let's not fix this right now and say we did". (The race baiters are great at this - we'll always have race problems because there are some who will see to it - it doesn't benefit them otherwise)
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The real reason we're doomed when it comes to global warming, something again I don't believe even exist, is this: Even if it did exist, all the people who supposedly care about it won't actually do a damn thing about it in any way that just might solve the problem.
The Government wants to shut down coal. They want to tax people for their oil use. They want to blame people for the Mother Earth's problems.
Imagine when mother Earth was going through the tectonic shifts and entire countries were being formed as they are today. Who would government blame then? What solutions could man find? I can hear some Al Gore type guy saying in caveman, "We've eaten too many dinosaurs from this side of the ground! We must even out the dino and stop these plates from moving or else we're all doomed in 10, wait, 50 ... no, 120 years!"
Man thinks they are so smart, but they can't even control when it's going to rain or the position of the clouds in the sky. The trees bend and the wind blows and man has nothing to do with it. (No, I don't believe if a butterfly flaps it's wings in China it can cause a Hurricane in the US ... it's so taxing)
It doesn't matter. All that matters is a "solution" exists, potential solution could exist. And no one cares. Certainly none of these people in this clean tech world. And if they do, I've not found them.
They need an issue to carp about. Something to cry over. A reason to get up angry everyday. Ted Turner is just hungry. Maybe they want to be invited to that one guys Imagination bull crap. It's always cool to be on stage. I've been on stage, on radio, on TV, on everything my entire life.
That makes you feel like someone.
But more than that:
They need a way to make money. And most especially, not miss out on the government subsidized money train.
How else would they feed their kids? And what religion would they turn to now? (Actually, solve the energy problem as Bill Gates wants and they'll just claim they need to change other things because whatever fear they need they will use as their next new religion).
Meanwhile, I'm over here like ...
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