Michael Strong is the author of The Habit of Thought and Be the Solution (paid links), the founder of The Academy of Thought and Industry, a co-founder of Conscious Capitalism and a former board member of The Seasteading Institute.Strong believes in entrepreneurial solutions to world problems. The biggest problem is inept, incompetent, dysfunctional government. It’s the least innovative industry in the entire world and the result of that is mass poverty. Most businesses are volatile, especially rapidly growing businesses. To succeed, businesses must be able to hire and fire people to respond to that volatility. Regulations, like permits and employment restrictions slow down an entrepreneur’s ability to respond to demand. The legal system must allow for volatility, because that allows entrepreneurs to create wealth.If we have fewer choices in government, then the future is grim. If we have thousands of choices, we will innovate in governance and grow in prosperity rapidly.Shenzhen as a successful Special Economic Zone. We have to remember these are long term projects. Shenzhen was declared a failure in 1986, but shortly after that investors came to develop. Hundreds of millions of people have escaped poverty in special economic zones.There is a startup culture in every nation. Small niches of startup entrepreneurs are able to take advantage of the internet to create opportunity and wealth in Russia and Guatemala. These entrepreneurs do not have the freedom to create jobs in their home countries because of the laws in those countries. Seasteads have to potential to create new jobs, free from the obsolete laws of land nations. New jurisdictions will be one of the leading industries in the 21st century.Once people realize seasteading is a path to prosperity, we’ll see a boom.Michael StrongIn this discussion, Strong refers to Hans Rosling, co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation and his TED talk on “How not to be ignorant about the world.”Honduras ZEDEs* Honduras Prospera: https://www.hondurasprospera.com* Michael Strong’s article on Austrian Economics Center, “How ZEDEs Can Make Honduras Prosperous.”Read the Let a Thousand Nations Bloom blog.Please subscribe to the Seasteading Today podcast on Apple | Carly Jackson Clean, Renewable Energy with Dr. Patrick Takahashi https://www.seasteading.org/clean-renewable-energy/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 http://www.seasteading.org/?p=32482 Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) uses the temperature difference between cooler deep water and warmer surface-level water to run a heat engine to produce useful work, usually in the form of electricity. Fresh water is a byproduct of this process. Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) uses the temperature difference between cooler deep water and warmer surface-level water to run a heat engine to produce useful work, usually in the form of electricity. Fresh water is a byproduct of this process. Dr. Patrick Takahashi is a retired engineering professor who has been advocating for the Blue Revolution for a third of a century.  In 1979 he wrote the original legislation for ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) when he worked in the U.S. Senate.Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) uses the temperature difference between cooler deep water and warmer surface-level water to run a heat engine to produce useful work, usually in the form of electricity. Fresh water is a byproduct of this process.Photo source: Blue Revolution HawaiiYou can also bring nutrients that have sunk to the deeper waters closer to the surface where they become pre-fertilizer for a seaweed farm.Photo source: Blue Revolution HawaiiThis one technology can produce food, energy, fresh water, and hydrogen fuel-- everything a floating city in the ocean needs. And OTEC plants will improve the quality of the ocean, and potentially lower the temperature of the water, which prevents hurricanes.It’s almost like magic.Dr. Patrick TakahashiPhoto by: Øystein Paulsen, WikimediaCultivating food that is lower on the trophic level requires fewer resources and preserves the environment. Dr. Takahashi recommends farming whale sharks because they provide plentiful meat, reproduce quickly, and are lower on the trophic chain than more popular fish like tuna.Read Ocean Thermal: Energy Conversion 1st Edition by Patrick Takahashi and  Andrew TrenkaRead Dr. Takahashi’s blog, Planet Earth and Humanity.Watch Patrick Takahashi on Blue Revolution at the Seasteading Conference 2012.Read The Dawn of the Blue Revolution on Huffington Post.OTEC International has been working with Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) to develop a 100-megawatt OTEC plant offshore of O‘ahu’s leeward industrial area.Please subscribe to the Seasteading Today podcast on Apple | Android |