The Future Of Energy

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From: "Mike Mulligan" <http://groups.yaho Date: Fri May 7, 2004 9:24 pm Subject: Event horizon of a black hole
Message 7873 of 8998


From: "Mike Mulligan"> Date: Wed May 5, 2004 7:42 pm Subject: Re: Victimhood and Victimization – the cutting edge of activism

People have long asked me why I keep going over events that happened over 12 years ago.

1) Irregardless if you think I had a legitimate safety issue in 1991 in this high value and high consequence industry, there are ways you can drag the whole community and region, indeed national interest, into your area of concern. You don't necessarily have to ask any authority in order to do this. That idea is radical beyond belief.

I piss off the establishment and the managers to no ends. I also piss off the employees who sit in their helplessness. I tell them it's baloney that they can't change things, it's about just yourindifference.

I have a very difficult time writing my thoughts down on paper. I often wondered with our lost children souls of the projects –if we just figured out an incentive to get them to write down their emotions, thoughts, feelings, problems, perceptions, hopes anddreams, as they were growing up. You could head off the majority ofthe problems with these children. Could it be as simple as that? Just the idea of putting something down on paper (electrons) is radical beyond belief –it transforms yourself and it has the potential of reaching another heart. Punctuation and grammar have noworth unless there are ideas behind it.

2) For all I write about, I am still a mystery to many of you. You right, I heard that often –I express myself in a very difficult fashion. I leave people with the problem –what the hell did he mean by that and they have to choke down my bad grammar. I don't intentionally write like that. But I'll tell you it is powerful. For some people, this leaves them thinking. That part of making them think is huge. I've continue to this very moment –I interact with problems, peoples and the establishment –I get them thinking about the infinite and not some source point.

I have been involved with some pretty big issues here in NewHampshire and Vermont through the recent years outside the nuclear establishment. The establishment of this area listens to my rants very carefully and they tend to react to what I express. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, I'll bet recognizes my interaction with the state officials and specific internal plant issues today. They wonder why the employees talk to me. I've got the NRC commissioners breathing pretty hard today.

There is an increasing recognition that the planet is in a deep crisis concerning global warming, modernization of the third world, adequate transmission and production of energy. There is no doubt in my mind that in days past, the idea that we had a choice with utilizing nuclear power is a luxury we can't afford tomorrow.

I asked some astonishing sophisticated questions of recent about the fundamental systems organizing principles of the NRC. The NRC is fundamentally a 1960's regulatory bureaucracy; it is hierarchal in a military sense; it is top down and not bottoms up; it is extremelyvulnerable to inappropriate political pressure through the tip of the organization; many of the politicians act as a gang type organization with their secrecy and hidden control to the top of the organization; a top down hierarchal organization is extremely unstable with creating long term system stability; and a top down organization has the ability to create powerful illusions against themselves and the outside organization.

So when is a top down hierarchal military organization appropriate –many organizations swing between top down and bottoms up, with the majority of the time in the bottoms up? So how does a top down organization create indifference and not caring with the lower levels of employees? How does a bottoms up organization create engagement and creativity? So what are the attributes of a bottoms up organization, What what about links and nodes? On the cutting edge of modern technological systems organization –what creates organizational stability and organization interstability as it relates to the NRC, the utilities, and all ofthe stakeholders. What role does propriety information and secrecy play in leveraging instability?

I am out to reorganize how we manage energy and I am out to reorganize the nuclear regulatory commission. These are the biggest problems this planet is going to face in the next fifty years. There are a lot of people who recognize that this has to be done now. They recognize, it is an enormous latent institutional failure –we see it in the energy shortages, price spikes up and down and across the board, unreliability of our energy distribution system across the board, and the blackouts…the enormous energy problems that repetitively knock on our doors and our political systems on this planet. All of us who has become unavailable to respond with creating the most technologically advanced system that we can think of. It’s appalling our increasing militarization of our energy cost –what a waste of money.

It is a massive active failure of all of us to politically manage the energy sector. It is mostly a failure of the voters and the public. They need to step up andbe responsible, to interact with the managing of the political sector.

I keep going back to this over and over. If you really think about the electricity sector; it's about how our educational institutions have failed to educate us –in creating our communication and understanding between of all of the complicated activities across this industry and the public interactions. We know how to create and move electrons –but we don't know how to make the system holistic to the needs of our country and planet. It's an unbelievable huge failure of ours. It's primitive in the continuum of planetary development and it goes on and on and on and on withoutchange.

Think about it! Our political system is incapable of managing the developing energy sector. This includes the so called economic system and free market, which frames how we manage energy. I would put it like this -the planetary needs of using energy are increasing at an astonishing rate –with our institutional/educational/skills ability -to manipulate and be creative is declining or remaining stagnant. Our ability to manipulate and innovate through our politics is absolutely frozen in the 1950's. Our nuclear plant sector is an example of this. How long do you think this is going to last? Sometimes I wonder that our first two milleniums of the the planets history coelesced through the constructions of our religions --with tomorrow, I think our planet will coelesced around the issues of how we make and manage energy, much like religions at our earlier times. It does give us all commonality.

It is an enormous philosophical failure within our highest principles, in how we manage the materials and intellectual resources through truth, trustworthiness, integrity, and the idea of a creative futuristic energy system in order to maintain our lifestyles and economy. I am not talking about turning us into a socialist, communist state – but something is clearly wrong with thecurrent system.

I mean I am an idiot. I sit on the outside. I can see that education drives everything---- or our institutional failures are driven by the failures of our educational system. I am absolutely astonished that I can come to that conclusion with my level of education!

Thanks,

mike mulligan
Hinsdale, NH

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