Alternative Energy Blues

Well!  I'm starting up a business.  It's way big.  Still, nobody else is doing it or they tried it and failed. I'm working with others to create a for profit company that builds new railroads in and around Texas.  We serve as a highly regulated public utility which combines both passenger and freight services in one organization. Our mission is to create a railroad in as transparent, sustainable, and useful way as possible. We're creating new infrastructure that employs workers who belong to independent unions, full time or part time with full time benefits.  We avoid using contractors or subcontractors wherever possible.  We attempt to use locally sourced products and labor wherever possible.  We invite scrutiny by LEED certification programs.

I'm starting a small business.   I have a DBA for East Texas Bank and Trust. It doesn't have any deposits, employees, assets or anything else. It's a sole proprietorship.  It's owned and operated exclusively by me, Alfred Molison. I'm investigating lending my parents some money to buy their home, buying some gold coins then selling them. I've had break ins at my old home and my parents home.  So These coins, if they're ever purchased will have to be insured and stored in a real bank's safe deposit box. Nothing has been bought or invested yet. One of my objectives is to begin building a track record of success for future larger businesses. I'm working to make these projects as moral, transparent,  and profitable as possible. I'm happy to pay taxes as the price of living in a civilized society. I'll be consulting an accountant to determine how to pay taxes and publicly display the results of the investments. The house might be bough...

Photos and Links to the Alternative Energy House in Houston TexasDurabl Triple LEED Approved       The only triple reviewed and approved LEED house in the United States in Houston Texas built by       This Houston, TX home IS the only TRIPLE CERTIFIED (IBHS, USGBC, DOE) in the country.  Buildblock ICFs played an important role aiding in the triple certification. First of all, ICF is perfect for the US Gulf Coast. The coast suffers from  termites, humidity, rodents, mold, mildew, heat, cold, rain, bugs, roaches, and, of course, the occasional tropical storm and/or full blown hurricane.All these are the mortal enemies of wood framing and houses built this way are essentially obsolete before they are occupied. This region calls for building with a massive, strong, hugely insulated, nature resistant, wall system. Ker Thomson with Durable Residential Builders states: We started with the environment of the US Gulf Coast and in ...

Part of the scientific method is eliminating or ruling out possibilities.  With narrow material research, engineering, basic biology and more, the process and revelation of the things ruled out can be quite straight forward.  A problem composed of yes, no, multiple choice answers, base two or base ten responses, it seems to work or it doesn't seem to work, or this works a little better, can be termed a simple problem. Sometimes there's decent peer review and panel studies of problems.  Sadly, everywhere there are the scholarly equivalent of quote whores:  Scholarly journals with distinctive titles and lofty boards of directors, but very few knowledgeable people are actually reading the submitted and published documents.  Then there are the private, big business interests disguised as scholarly institutes. But when it comes to the human condition and improving the human condition, then simple technical problems become wicked problems.  Wicked problems lo...