Adobe Houses are Very Energy Efficient and Quiet. Thick Mud Walls stay Cool in the Summer, Warm in the Winter. AND THEY RESIST FOREST FIRES... Tile Roofs Do Not Burn when a Spark Lands on Them...

When we rebuild Paradise and Santa Rosa, California it might be an Opportunity to Use Smart Design Ideas. I remember going inside the Mission Santa Clara on a Hot Summer Day... Built over 200 years ago, it has withstood Earthquakes.

Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants and Distributed Using the Grid. WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE FOREST FIRES.

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID...

Commercial Solar LED Street Lighting: THERE ARE MANY MANUFACTURERS...   HERE IS ONE...
https://www.sepco-solarlighting.com/solar-street-lighting
and Here are another DOZEN...
https://cleanenergysummit.org/best-solar-street-lights/
Lighting for Streets and Roadways Provided by Sustainable Solar Power... SEPCO’s solar powered street lighting systems are an efficient means to provide lighting without the need for standard utility power. Every system provides cost savings by eliminating the need to trench standard electric wires for installation and providing no electric bill for the life of the system. Solar street lights have been installed on highways, freeways, neighborhood streets, rural roads, etc. and provide security, sustainability and an overall green image.

When I was working at System Industries in Santa Clara, California (1976) the owner of the company (Dr. Edwin Zschau) went to Japan to learn how to run a business.

They were doing very well in comparison to USA companies and there was a lot of interest in learning why. So we adopted many oriental concepts and implemented them in our business. One thing was that we had a company song. We had a birthday meeting every month and we would all sing the company song.

Lyrics:
"System, System Industries, Here we go, Hand in hand.
Solving Data Mysteries for the betterment of man."

Another thing we did was take a two hour lunch so we could exercise. I swam at the Santa Clara International Swim center with my wife. She was working the Graveyard shift at National Semi-conductor so we met twice a day. Lunch and evenings.
We had many people from foreign countries working there. When Dr. Zschau went to Japan he hired many Japanese people. Immigrants made our company better. That was a universal fact of life about Silicon Valley... The brightest engineers worldwide came here for work. I had a neighbor from Nicaragua who came to work at IBM. And another Engineer I knew came from Germany at the end of WW2 to work at Lockheed. Very Common.

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Another time in Santa Clara we partticipated in a "Car Rally". Everyone would meet at a starting location then we were given a series of clues as to where to go next. One clue was "Go to a street named for a part time orchestra leader." We were supposed to figure out the puzzle and navagate to checkpoints. The answer to that clue was "Semi-conductor Blvd"... semi meaning part time and conductor is the leader of an orchestra. This was all part of the California Car Culture.

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Riding the Train after a Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara 6-28-2015 - Jerry Garcia's Ghost Visited us... as a Rainbow over the Concert and ACTUAL RAIN IN THE SUMMER! Very Rare!

Grateful Dead in Santa Clara, CA 

After the concert, we all got on the Free light-rail train and rode it to Los Gatos. The Train was TOTALLY Packed... Like Japanese. We all sang along to a person's cellphone that played the song "Godzilla" by Blue Oyster Cult. FUN! I ended up sleeping in a field behind a 7/11. A No cost motel room. Then the next day I rode Amtrak to Martinez and then too the bus to Eureka. Using public transportation at this concert was a great blessing... No driving a car after eating Marijuana Cookies!
In general, riding the bus or Train is FUN!

Waiting for the Grateful Dead Concert and eating Costa Rican Chocolate bars that they were vending... Really Strong... I ate a quarter of a bar and barfed it up an hour later... but their cannabis lozenges were EPIC.

The fundamental engineering concept of the "Wall of Sound" is valid... yet for some unknown reason the Phase Cancelling Microphones did not become industry standard. Why not continue Owsley's research into phase cancelling microphones for public address systems. Why not move the second microphone farther away from the primary microphone. Per Bill K, they really had to eat the microphone to make the "Wall of Sound" work. If an engineer made a wireless microphone... Maybe the quality of the new design would make the singers happy...

I feel Extremely Lucky to Have Been Born at a Time When I could Go to A Concert With Jerry Garcia... What a Blessing! One time I Danced RIGHT In Front Touching The Stage at San Jose State University... But It was TOO LOUD so I Only Stayed There for a Few Minutes... He was Drenched in Sweat... You Can't See THAT form The Cheap Seats... The Big Song of the Night was "Lay Down Sally" - Quite a Difficult Song with a PERKY Rhythm... another Time The Dead Played "La Bamba" and it seemed like Only Jerry Really GOT The Rhythm... Everyone Else was Struggling to Stay on the Beat... Just like the Lyrics to the Song "Fire on the Mountain"

Photo of a Rainbow over Levi Stadium in Santa Clara.

It's really rare that we experience rain 

during the summer but...

This time it was like Jerry Garcia's Ghost was visiting us...

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Grateful Dead... Original Deadhead ART and My Story... American History... An Amazing Experience... PLUS... Original Poetry and Fiction... Learned by Me While OUT THERE. I'm gr8ful

Grateful Deadhead Webpage...

Fan tribute ART and Stories...

sugar cube...

like the cover of "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test"
by Tom Wolfe.

~~~~~~~~~~my  Gr8ful  story~~~~~~~~~

 I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in English class at junior high school. Our teacher had put up posters on the wall of the classroom and we wrote essays about them. and then...

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MORE GRATEFUL DEAD INSPIRED ART...

Poetry inspired by Dead Concerts at JFK Stadium and the Spectrum Arena in Philadelphia.

ceremony and ritual: a story...

OUR MINDS HAVE BEEN FUSED INTO ONE SHIMMERING

COLONIAL ANIMAL...

FLOWING IN THE

CURRENTS OF THE MUSIC...

adrenaline, serotonin,synapses on fire !

IN THE SHADOWS,TORCHES FLICKER IN THE BREEZE.

THE ORACLE BEGINS TO SPEAK,

FEEL THE HEAT...

adrenaline,serotonin,synapses on fire!

WE DANCE OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL

REALM OF TIME AND SPACE.

THE CROWD ERUPTS IN OUTBURSTS OF FREE-FORM MOTION

AS THE INTENSITY OF THE JAM PEAKS

adrenaline,serotonin,synapses on fire!

MY BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO A PINBALL AND

I RICOCHET AROUND THE SPECTRUM

ARENA BOUNCING OFF THE FLASHING LIGHTS.

A CROWD OF DEADHEADS

SURROUND ME INTENT ON TELLING ME STUPID JOKES...

THEY JUST...know... THAT I WILL LAUGH...

adrenaline,serotonin,synapses on fire!

THANK YOU DR. ALBERT HOFFMAN

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