Interview with Captain Ozone

A candid, unedited Exclusive interview with the elusive Captain Ozone <!--break--> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Ozone_-_chicken_wing.JPG"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">If you plan to interview Captain Ozone, good luck!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He has no address or phone number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He camps out in the woods and only checks his e-mails once in a blue moon through the public library systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">During my quest for an interview, I contacted several sources, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Environmental Media Northwest</i>, until the Captain finally contacted me via </font></font></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">e-mail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The executive director of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Environmental Media Northwest</i> actually had me blindfolded and we drove to Captain Ozone’s secret campsite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></b></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Once at the campsite, my blindfold was removed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I expected to see a man in a super-hero costume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Instead, I met a plain-clothed man wearing a hat, sunglasses, and an obviously fake beard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The campsite was cluttered with vintage electronics, including a two-way shortwave radio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>A small hydrogen fuel cell was powering the vintage equipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The encampment was surrounded by giant old-growth trees, if that’s any clue to our whereabouts…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></b></p><p></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Captain Ozone:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>“Hello Vanessa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I’m Captain Will Ozone.”</font></font></span></p><p></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Vanessa Jefferson:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>“Hello there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>So why aren’t you wearing your super-hero costume?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Captain Ozone:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>“It takes almost a half an hour for me to suit up in that costume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It only takes a few seconds for me to put on this cheap disguise.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Vanessa Jefferson:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>“I understand…but I went through a bunch of malarkey to get here, and I brought my camera all this way…” </font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“I’m sorry about all the malarkey, but consider yourself lucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I rarely do personal interviews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>If I do interviews at all, it’s usually through e-mails.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Then why did you let me come here in person?” </font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Because you were very persistent in trying to track me down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I also saw your photo in your e-mails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>You look like a very intelligent and attractive young lady.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Thank you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Can I take pictures of you in your cheap disguise?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“You certainly may.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“How did you find this place?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>These old-growth trees are just magnificent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>How old do you think they are?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“That one over there, next to my tent, could be seven-hundred years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There aren’t very many of them left here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Most of them were cut down about eighty years ago.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“It’s a plain shame, isn’t it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>So what kind of ancient equipment is that under your canopy?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Some of it’s used for communications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Some of it’s used for scientific research.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Where is the electricity coming from to power all of that stuff?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“A hydrogen fuel cell, over there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I also have a solar panel equipped with a battery for a backup, over there, but I haven’t used it yet.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“What kind of scientific research are you doing?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“I can’t talk about that right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Let’s just say it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">top secret</i> for the time being.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Yes, your team of scientists in your documentary had the same answers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>Someone in your documentary also mentioned that you’re a time traveler from the future?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Is this true?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Would you believe me if I told you I am from the future?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“No.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Well…there you have it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Why don’t we move on to a more tangible subject matter—like hydrogen fuel technologies?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Sure, but first I brought you this bottle of Stoli’s vodka.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I saw in your documentary how your tattoo visually changes when you drink hard liquor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I’d like to see this for real.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Well, thanks for the Stoli’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I normally don’t drink this early in the day, but since this is a special occasion, I think I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">will</i>.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“I also brought you a double shot-glass.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“You set ’em up, Vanessa, and I’ll knock ’em down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It takes about six shots altogether for my tattoo to work.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I counted them in your documentary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Here, I’m going to pour you one right now.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Captain Ozone grabbed the double shot and swilled it down in one gulp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He curled his right arm and flapped it up and down like a chicken wing. </font></font></span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Iiiiieeeeeeehh!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Nit, nit, nit, fik, fik, fik’n Indians!”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Excuse me, but do you have Turrets syndrome?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I was just doing an impersonation of Jack Nicholson in the movie </font></font></span><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue">Easy Rider</span></i><span style="COLOR: blue">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>One of my favorite counterculture movies from the 1960’s.”</span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“I’ll have to see that movie again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Okay, let’s get started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>First of all, I just wanted to state for my readers that you assert hydrogen gas can be made from water, and when it’s burned, it turns back into water.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Yes, that is correct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Hydrogen gas can be cracked from water through a process called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">electrolysis</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“You also assert that hydrogen fuel is 100% pollution-free and 100% renewable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Is this true?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Only if hydrogen fuel is made from pollution-free and renewable sources, such as solar, wind and hydro power.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">            </span></font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>You also claim that hydrogen fuel, or hydrogen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">fuel cells</i>, will eventually replace all fossil fuels in the future.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“That’s right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Hydrogen fuel will eventually replace coal and petroleum as a major fuel source in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Part of my mission is to make certain that this conversion to hydrogen fuel happens in the next decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Not in the next half century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Fossil fuels are the major contributors to global warming, and believe me; we don’t have a half a century to spare.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Okay, but today, virtually all hydrogen gas production is being made from crude fossil materials. Worldwide, 48% of hydrogen is produced from natural gas, 30% from petroleum, and 18% from coal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>These are not pollution-free, renewable energy sources that hydrogen is being produced from, and they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">do</i> produce greenhouse gases.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Very good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I see you’ve done your homework.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There are advanced technologies being developed today to ensure that any greenhouse gases released in the process of making hydrogen from crude fossil materials does not escape into the atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There’s also the option of making hydrogen from nuclear power, which produces no greenhouse gases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>However, I’d like to see the process of making hydrogen fuel from crude fossil materials or nuclear power to be a very short-term plan.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“What do you foresee the long-term plan to be?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Like you said, natural gas, petroleum and coal are not pollution-free, renewable resources to make hydrogen fuel from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Neither is nuclear power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The long-term plan is to make hydrogen from pollution-free and renewable resources such as wind, solar, and hydro power, or even biomass.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Yes, but can these pollution-free and renewable resources, at present, create enough hydrogen to power the 600,000,000 automobiles around the world today?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Of course not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>At present, there are not enough wind turbines, solar panels and hydroelectric dams to produce enough hydrogen to power that many automobiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But, more of these pollution-free and renewable resources can be built worldwide”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“You’re talking about a gargantuan task.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Yes, somewhere at the tune of over a trillion dollars, worldwide, spent over a period of a decade.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“That seems very improbable.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“During WWII, almost a trillion dollars in 1940’s currency was spent on mass destruction, worldwide, in just six years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>You can’t see all of our nations, today, spending a trillion dollars on mass productivity, in just ten years?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Yes, I can see that, but only if there was some sort of global emergency.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“You don’t consider <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">global warming</i> to be an emergency?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“I don’t perceive it to be an emergency, quite yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But I can see it becoming an emergency in the near future.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“It will become an emergency thirty years from now if the world continues to rely on coal, petroleum and natural gas as primary fuel sources.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Thirty years from now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>How do you know this?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“I have seen it.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Oh, I see…uh-huh, uh-huh.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Even if the rest of the world does not convert to pollution-free and renewable energy sources, our country <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">must</i> so that we can be energy self-sufficient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Depending on the </span><place /><span style="COLOR: blue">Middle East</span></place /><span style="COLOR: blue"> for oil weakens our national strength.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>With hydrogen, the </span><country-region /><place /><span style="COLOR: blue">U.S.</span></place /></country-region /><span style="COLOR: blue"> could be energy self-sufficient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Also, changing to a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>hydrogen-based economy will create thousands of new industrial and scientific jobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Building plants, manufacturing parts and selling equipment will all be investments that stimulate jobs and growth.” </span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“You’re still talking about a gargantuan task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It would take </span><country-region /><place /><span style="COLOR: blue">America</span></place /></country-region /><span style="COLOR: blue"> at least a half a century to build enough solar panels, wind turbines and hydroelectric dams to produce enough hydrogen gas to power all of our ships, planes, automobiles and factories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Let’s try to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">realistic</i> here.” </span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“I am being realistic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>During WWII, our nation, aided by a huge governmental effort, retooled every major factory in order to manufacture ships, planes, tanks and guns for the war effort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This was all accomplished in only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">11 months</i>, and our aircraft industry in WWII grew to become the largest industry in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>If </span><country-region /><place /><span style="COLOR: blue">America</span></place /></country-region /><span style="COLOR: blue"> accomplished all that back in the 1940’s, in only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">11 months</i>, don’t you think </span><country-region /><place /><span style="COLOR: blue">America</span></place /></country-region /><span style="COLOR: blue">, today, can convert to a hydrogen-based economy in<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> ten years</i>?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Yes, I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Only one problem, Captain…”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“What?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“There are still enough crude fossil materials left on Earth to last the whole-wide-world another 150 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>That doesn’t give all our nations, including </span><country-region /><place /><span style="COLOR: blue">America</span></place /></country-region /><span style="COLOR: blue">, much of an incentive to change to a hydrogen-based economy—especially in just ten years.”</span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“I agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But our country is spending billions of dollars each year defending access to oil in the </span><place /><span style="COLOR: blue">Middle East</span></place /><span style="COLOR: blue">, and billions more financing oil explorations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We can spend the same amount of money towards a hydrogen-based economy instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Call me a crackpot, idealistic dreamer if you will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But it’s feasibly within our price-range to build a hydrogen-based economy within the next decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Incidentally, in the not-too-distant future, there’s a good chance that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Paul Allen will generate some historic progress for the hydrogen fuel industry.” </span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Paul Allen?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>How do you know this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Oh, never mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Incidentally</i>, I saw in your documentary that you’re a notorious prankster.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Indeed, I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But if you notice when it comes to hydrogen fuel technologies, I don’t joke around.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">     </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“I also read on the Internet that you starred in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">first</i> hydrogen fuel PSA to be televised in </span><country-region /><place /><span style="COLOR: blue">America</span></place /></country-region /><span style="COLOR: blue">.”</span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“That’s right, Vanessa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The PSA was written and directed by two seventh-grade girls from </span><city /><place /><span style="COLOR: blue">Seattle</span></place /></city /><span style="COLOR: blue">, and the US Department of Energy pooled resources with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>I also helped write and direct another hydrogen fuel PSA which featured a ten-year-old boy that was filmed in my laboratory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>If you go to <a href="http://www.4hydrogen.com/"><u><font color="#800080">4hydrogen.com</font></u></a>, you can view these PSAs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>You can also make a tax-deductible donation through this website to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Environmental Media Northwest</i>—the non-profit organization that produced the PSA’s.”</span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I’ll go there and donate fifty bucks—what the heck.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We need all the help we can get.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Why do you feature school kids in your hydrogen fuel PSA’s?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Well, the hydrogen industry needs to build public support and a wide constituency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Hydrogen is the fuel of the future and our children <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">are</i> the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Plus, kids are a large percentage of the general public and act as a gateway for messages about new technologies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>That is why <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Environmental Media Northwest</i> has focused on children as the proactive agent of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">change</i> in our television PSA’s.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Do the school kids enjoy working with you?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I’m a colorfully costumed super-hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>You saw my documentary; the kids were having a riot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I also created the </span></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><u>Children’s Ecology Program</u></i><u> </u></span><span style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">www.emnw.org/school.htm</i>)</span><span style="COLOR: blue">—an exciting workshop that gives school kids the opportunity to write, direct and star in their own television PSA’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Maybe one of their next PSA’s will be about the conservation of old-growth trees.”</span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“I think your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Children’s Ecology Program</i> is a great concept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It gives school kids a powerful voice, enabling them to become environmental <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">educators</i> on a large scale.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“That’s right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Today’s children are the leaders of tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>So far, our school kids’ PSA’s have received millions of dollars worth of television airtime for free.” </font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Wow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>That’s outstanding.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“I think that ecological studies should be a required class for middle-school and high-school students.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“I agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>By the way, I really liked the rock-music video in your documentary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Who was the band that performed in it?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“A band from </span><place /><city /><span style="COLOR: blue">Seattle</span></city /><span style="COLOR: blue"> </span><state /><span style="COLOR: blue">Washington</span></state /></place /><span style="COLOR: blue"> called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><u>Bows &amp; Eros</u></i> </span><span style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">www.bowsanderos.com</i>)</span><span style="COLOR: blue">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Some of the background music in the documentary was also performed by another band from </span><place /><city /><span style="COLOR: blue">Bellingham</span></city /><span style="COLOR: blue"> </span><state /><span style="COLOR: blue">Washington</span></state /></place /><span style="COLOR: blue"> called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Stinkbu</i>gs.”</span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Very groovy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>By the way, can I see how your tattoo is doing?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Captain Ozone pulled up his right shirtsleeve, revealing a tattoo of a red-colored </font></font></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">heart.</font></font></span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“My tattoo hasn’t changed yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I need another shot of that Stoli’s.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I poured another double shot of Stoli’s for the Captain and he swilled it down in one </font></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">big gulp again.</font></font></span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></b><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Eeaahhh!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>So what else do you want to talk about?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“I think it’s awesome that you helped produce and also starred in the largest media campaign to save our </span><place /><span style="COLOR: blue">Pacific Northwest</span></place /><span style="COLOR: blue"> salmon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I’m a huge wild salmon advocate myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There’s just one thing that puzzles me, though.”</span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Yeah, what’s that?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“You mentioned earlier that pollution-free and renewable hydrogen can be produced from solar panels, wind turbines and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">hydroelectric dams</i>.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Yes?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Aren’t hydroelectric dams partially responsible for reducing the population of our wild salmon?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Yes, that’s true with some dams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But over the last thirty years, fish ladders and highly developed turbines have been created which enable wild salmon to swim safely to and from existing dams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Dams built in the future that generate hydrogen fuel will be equipped from the very beginning with these new salmon-saving technologies.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“That’s good to hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In that case, I’m all for hydrogen generating dams in the future.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Good.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“I saw in your documentary how you powered an antique chainsaw with hemp oil at the Seattle Hemp Fest and—”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“—Wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Sorry to interrupt, but I did not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">power</i> that chainsaw with hemp oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">lubricated</i> it with hemp oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Essentially, I did a demonstration on how hemp oil can be used as an alternative lubricant to petroleum.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Oh, I see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Does hemp oil make a better engine lubricant than petroleum?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Hemp oil can be used as cooking oil and is also a tasty ingredient in salad dressings, but it does not contain all the complex hydrocarbons that petroleum does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The complex hydrocarbons in petroleum are necessary elements for making strong, durable and long-lasting engine lubricants.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Then why did you demonstrate hemp oil as an alternative lubricant to petroleum at the </span><city /><place /><span style="COLOR: blue">Seattle</span></place /></city /><span style="COLOR: blue"> hemp Fest?”</span></font></font></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“A hemp enthusiast friend of mine kept rousting me to do it, so I did it on a lark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>However, if it’s of any importance, I used <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">virgin</i> hemp oil in the chainsaw’s engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I also lubricated the chainsaw’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">chain</i> with virgin hemp oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Everything worked just fine.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“One of your scientists in your documentary mentioned that plastics can be made from hemp oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Can hemp oil make better plastics than petroleum?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Hemp oil can make high-quality soft plastics, like plastic bags for sandwich wraps, or plastic bottles for water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But hemp oil cannot make extremely hard, high-heat-resistant plastics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Again, this requires the complex hydrocarbon elements found in petroleum.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Do you consider yourself to be a hemp enthusiast in general?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“To some extent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I think that hemp makes long-lasting, high-quality textiles.  </font></font></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font face="Times New Roman">             </font></span><span style="COLOR: blue"><font face="Times New Roman">I own a pair of pants that are 100% hemp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The pants cost me $85 bucks, though.”</font></span></font></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“This shirt I’m wearing is 100% hemp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Feel it.”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Hmm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It feels pretty soft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It’s not virgin hemp, is it?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It’s polished hemp, and it only cost me $40.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Can I see your tattoo again?”</font></font></span></p><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><p /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDEN<img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Red_Heart.JPG"><br> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Red_Heart_Arrow.JPG"><br> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Red_Heart_MOM.JPG"><br> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Super_Computer_2.JPG"><br>

<p>A candid, unedited Exclusive interview with the elusive Captain Ozone</p> <!--break--><p><img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Ozone_-_chicken_wing.JPG" /><br /><br /> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">If you plan to interview Captain Ozone, good luck!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He has no address or phone number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He camps out in the woods and only checks his e-mails once in a blue moon through the public library systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">During my quest for an interview, I contacted several sources, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Environmental Media Northwest</i>, until the Captain finally contacted me via </font></font></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">e-mail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The executive director of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Environmental Media Northwest</i> actually had me blindfolded and we drove to Captain Ozone’s secret campsite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></b></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Once at the campsite, my blindfold was removed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I expected to see a man in a super-hero costume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Instead, I met a plain-clothed man wearing a hat, sunglasses, and an obviously fake beard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The campsite was cluttered with vintage electronics, including a two-way shortwave radio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>A small hydrogen fuel cell was powering the vintage equipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The encampment was surrounded by giant old-growth trees, if that’s any clue to our whereabouts…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Captain Ozone:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>“Hello Vanessa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I’m Captain Will Ozone.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Vanessa Jefferson:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>“Hello there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>So why aren’t you wearing your super-hero costume?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Captain Ozone:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>“It takes almost a half an hour for me to suit up in that costume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It only takes a few seconds for me to put on this cheap disguise.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Vanessa Jefferson:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>“I understand…but I went through a bunch of malarkey to get here, and I brought my camera all this way…” </font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“I’m sorry about all the malarkey, but consider yourself lucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I rarely do personal interviews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>If I do interviews at all, it’s usually through e-mails.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Then why did you let me come here in person?” </font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Because you were very persistent in trying to track me down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I also saw your photo in your e-mails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>You look like a very intelligent and attractive young lady.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Thank you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Can I take pictures of you in your cheap disguise?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“You certainly may.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“How did you find this place?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>These old-growth trees are just magnificent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>How old do you think they are?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“That one over there, next to my tent, could be seven-hundred years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There aren’t very many of them left here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Most of them were cut down about eighty years ago.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“It’s a plain shame, isn’t it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>So what kind of ancient equipment is that under your canopy?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Some of it’s used for communications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Some of it’s used for scientific research.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Where is the electricity coming from to power all of that stuff?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“A hydrogen fuel cell, over there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I also have a solar panel equipped with a battery for a backup, over there, but I haven’t used it yet.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“What kind of scientific research are you doing?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“I can’t talk about that right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Let’s just say it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">top secret</i> for the time being.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Yes, your team of scientists in your documentary had the same answers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>Someone in your documentary also mentioned that you’re a time traveler from the future?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Is this true?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Would you believe me if I told you I am from the future?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“No.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Well…there you have it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Why don’t we move on to a more tangible subject matter—like hydrogen fuel technologies?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Sure, but first I brought you this bottle of Stoli’s vodka.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I saw in your documentary how your tattoo visually changes when you drink hard liquor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I’d like to see this for real.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Well, thanks for the Stoli’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I normally don’t drink this early in the day, but since this is a special occasion, I think I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">will</i>.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“I also brought you a double shot-glass.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“You set ’em up, Vanessa, and I’ll knock ’em down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It takes about six shots altogether for my tattoo to work.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I counted them in your documentary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Here, I’m going to pour you one right now.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Captain Ozone grabbed the double shot and swilled it down in one gulp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He curled his right arm and flapped it up and down like a chicken wing. </font></font></span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Iiiiieeeeeeehh!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Nit, nit, nit, fik, fik, fik’n Indians!”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Excuse me, but do you have Turrets syndrome?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I was just doing an impersonation of Jack Nicholson in the movie </font></font></span><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue">Easy Rider</span></i><span style="COLOR: blue">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>One of my favorite counterculture movies from the 1960’s.”</span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“I’ll have to see that movie again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Okay, let’s get started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>First of all, I just wanted to state for my readers that you assert hydrogen gas can be made from water, and when it’s burned, it turns back into water.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Yes, that is correct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Hydrogen gas can be cracked from water through a process called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">electrolysis</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“You also assert that hydrogen fuel is 100% pollution-free and 100% renewable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Is this true?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Only if hydrogen fuel is made from pollution-free and renewable sources, such as solar, wind and hydro power.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">            </span></font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>You also claim that hydrogen fuel, or hydrogen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">fuel cells</i>, will eventually replace all fossil fuels in the future.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“That’s right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Hydrogen fuel will eventually replace coal and petroleum as a major fuel source in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Part of my mission is to make certain that this conversion to hydrogen fuel happens in the next decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Not in the next half century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Fossil fuels are the major contributors to global warming, and believe me; we don’t have a half a century to spare.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Okay, but today, virtually all hydrogen gas production is being made from crude fossil materials. Worldwide, 48% of hydrogen is produced from natural gas, 30% from petroleum, and 18% from coal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>These are not pollution-free, renewable energy sources that hydrogen is being produced from, and they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">do</i> produce greenhouse gases.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Very good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I see you’ve done your homework.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There are advanced technologies being developed today to ensure that any greenhouse gases released in the process of making hydrogen from crude fossil materials does not escape into the atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There’s also the option of making hydrogen from nuclear power, which produces no greenhouse gases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>However, I’d like to see the process of making hydrogen fuel from crude fossil materials or nuclear power to be a very short-term plan.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“What do you foresee the long-term plan to be?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Like you said, natural gas, petroleum and coal are not pollution-free, renewable resources to make hydrogen fuel from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Neither is nuclear power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The long-term plan is to make hydrogen from pollution-free and renewable resources such as wind, solar, and hydro power, or even biomass.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Yes, but can these pollution-free and renewable resources, at present, create enough hydrogen to power the 600,000,000 automobiles around the world today?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Of course not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>At present, there are not enough wind turbines, solar panels and hydroelectric dams to produce enough hydrogen to power that many automobiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But, more of these pollution-free and renewable resources can be built worldwide”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“You’re talking about a gargantuan task.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Yes, somewhere at the tune of over a trillion dollars, worldwide, spent over a period of a decade.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“That seems very improbable.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“During WWII, almost a trillion dollars in 1940’s currency was spent on mass destruction, worldwide, in just six years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>You can’t see all of our nations, today, spending a trillion dollars on mass productivity, in just ten years?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Yes, I can see that, but only if there was some sort of global emergency.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“You don’t consider <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">global warming</i> to be an emergency?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“I don’t perceive it to be an emergency, quite yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But I can see it becoming an emergency in the near future.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“It will become an emergency thirty years from now if the world continues to rely on coal, petroleum and natural gas as primary fuel sources.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Thirty years from now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>How do you know this?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“I have seen it.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Oh, I see…uh-huh, uh-huh.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Even if the rest of the world does not convert to pollution-free and renewable energy sources, our country <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">must</i> so that we can be energy self-sufficient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Depending on the </span><br /> <place></place><span style="COLOR: blue">Middle East</span>/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue"> for oil weakens our national strength.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>With hydrogen, the </span><country-region></country-region><br /> <place></place><span style="COLOR: blue">U.S.</span>/&gt;/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue"> could be energy self-sufficient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Also, changing to a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>hydrogen-based economy will create thousands of new industrial and scientific jobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Building plants, manufacturing parts and selling equipment will all be investments that stimulate jobs and growth.” </span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“You’re still talking about a gargantuan task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It would take </span><country-region></country-region><br /> <place></place><span style="COLOR: blue">America</span>/&gt;/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue"> at least a half a century to build enough solar panels, wind turbines and hydroelectric dams to produce enough hydrogen gas to power all of our ships, planes, automobiles and factories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Let’s try to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">realistic</i> here.” </span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“I am being realistic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>During WWII, our nation, aided by a huge governmental effort, retooled every major factory in order to manufacture ships, planes, tanks and guns for the war effort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This was all accomplished in only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">11 months</i>, and our aircraft industry in WWII grew to become the largest industry in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>If </span><country-region></country-region><br /> <place></place><span style="COLOR: blue">America</span>/&gt;/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue"> accomplished all that back in the 1940’s, in only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">11 months</i>, don’t you think </span><country-region></country-region><br /> <place></place><span style="COLOR: blue">America</span>/&gt;/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue">, today, can convert to a hydrogen-based economy in<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> ten years</i>?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Yes, I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Only one problem, Captain…”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“What?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“There are still enough crude fossil materials left on Earth to last the whole-wide-world another 150 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>That doesn’t give all our nations, including </span><country-region></country-region><br /> <place></place><span style="COLOR: blue">America</span>/&gt;/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue">, much of an incentive to change to a hydrogen-based economy—especially in just ten years.”</span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“I agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But our country is spending billions of dollars each year defending access to oil in the </span><br /> <place></place><span style="COLOR: blue">Middle East</span>/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue">, and billions more financing oil explorations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We can spend the same amount of money towards a hydrogen-based economy instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Call me a crackpot, idealistic dreamer if you will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But it’s feasibly within our price-range to build a hydrogen-based economy within the next decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Incidentally, in the not-too-distant future, there’s a good chance that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Paul Allen will generate some historic progress for the hydrogen fuel industry.” </span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Paul Allen?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>How do you know this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Oh, never mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Incidentally</i>, I saw in your documentary that you’re a notorious prankster.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Indeed, I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But if you notice when it comes to hydrogen fuel technologies, I don’t joke around.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">     </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“I also read on the Internet that you starred in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">first</i> hydrogen fuel PSA to be televised in </span><country-region></country-region><br /> <place></place><span style="COLOR: blue">America</span>/&gt;/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue">.”</span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“That’s right, Vanessa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The PSA was written and directed by two seventh-grade girls from </span><city></city><br /> <place></place><span style="COLOR: blue">Seattle</span>/&gt;/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue">, and the US Department of Energy pooled resources with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>I also helped write and direct another hydrogen fuel PSA which featured a ten-year-old boy that was filmed in my laboratory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>If you go to <a href="http://www.4hydrogen.com/"><u><font color="#800080">4hydrogen.com</font></u></a>, you can view these PSAs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>You can also make a tax-deductible donation through this website to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Environmental Media Northwest</i>—the non-profit organization that produced the PSA’s.”</span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I’ll go there and donate fifty bucks—what the heck.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We need all the help we can get.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Why do you feature school kids in your hydrogen fuel PSA’s?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Well, the hydrogen industry needs to build public support and a wide constituency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Hydrogen is the fuel of the future and our children <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">are</i> the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Plus, kids are a large percentage of the general public and act as a gateway for messages about new technologies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>That is why <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Environmental Media Northwest</i> has focused on children as the proactive agent of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">change</i> in our television PSA’s.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Do the school kids enjoy working with you?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I’m a colorfully costumed super-hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>You saw my documentary; the kids were having a riot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I also created the </span></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><u>Children’s Ecology Program</u></i><u> </u></span><span style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><a href="http://www.emnw.org/school.htm">www.emnw.org/school.htm</a></i>)</span><span style="COLOR: blue">—an exciting workshop that gives school kids the opportunity to write, direct and star in their own television PSA’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Maybe one of their next PSA’s will be about the conservation of old-growth trees.”</span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“I think your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Children’s Ecology Program</i> is a great concept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It gives school kids a powerful voice, enabling them to become environmental <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">educators</i> on a large scale.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“That’s right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Today’s children are the leaders of tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>So far, our school kids’ PSA’s have received millions of dollars worth of television airtime for free.” </font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Wow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>That’s outstanding.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“I think that ecological studies should be a required class for middle-school and high-school students.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“I agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>By the way, I really liked the rock-music video in your documentary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Who was the band that performed in it?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“A band from </span><br /> <place></place><city></city><span style="COLOR: blue">Seattle</span>/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue"> </span><state></state><span style="COLOR: blue">Washington</span>/&gt;/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue"> called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><u>Bows &amp; Eros</u></i> </span><span style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><a href="http://www.bowsanderos.com">www.bowsanderos.com</a></i>)</span><span style="COLOR: blue">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Some of the background music in the documentary was also performed by another band from </span><br /> <place></place><city></city><span style="COLOR: blue">Bellingham</span>/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue"> </span><state></state><span style="COLOR: blue">Washington</span>/&gt;/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue"> called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Stinkbu</i>gs.”</span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Very groovy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>By the way, can I see how your tattoo is doing?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Captain Ozone pulled up his right shirtsleeve, revealing a tattoo of a red-colored </font></font></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">heart.</font></font></span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“My tattoo hasn’t changed yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I need another shot of that Stoli’s.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I poured another double shot of Stoli’s for the Captain and he swilled it down in one </font></font></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">big gulp again.</font></font></span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></b><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Eeaahhh!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>So what else do you want to talk about?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“I think it’s awesome that you helped produce and also starred in the largest media campaign to save our </span><br /> <place></place><span style="COLOR: blue">Pacific Northwest</span>/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue"> salmon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I’m a huge wild salmon advocate myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There’s just one thing that puzzles me, though.”</span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Yeah, what’s that?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“You mentioned earlier that pollution-free and renewable hydrogen can be produced from solar panels, wind turbines and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">hydroelectric dams</i>.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“Yes?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Aren’t hydroelectric dams partially responsible for reducing the population of our wild salmon?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Yes, that’s true with some dams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But over the last thirty years, fish ladders and highly developed turbines have been created which enable wild salmon to swim safely to and from existing dams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Dams built in the future that generate hydrogen fuel will be equipped from the very beginning with these new salmon-saving technologies.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“That’s good to hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In that case, I’m all for hydrogen generating dams in the future.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">     </span>“Good.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“I saw in your documentary how you powered an antique chainsaw with hemp oil at the Seattle Hemp Fest and—”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“—Wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Sorry to interrupt, but I did not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">power</i> that chainsaw with hemp oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></span><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">lubricated</i> it with hemp oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Essentially, I did a demonstration on how hemp oil can be used as an alternative lubricant to petroleum.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Oh, I see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Does hemp oil make a better engine lubricant than petroleum?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Hemp oil can be used as cooking oil and is also a tasty ingredient in salad dressings, but it does not contain all the complex hydrocarbons that petroleum does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The complex hydrocarbons in petroleum are necessary elements for making strong, durable and long-lasting engine lubricants.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Then why did you demonstrate hemp oil as an alternative lubricant to petroleum at the </span><city></city><br /> <place></place><span style="COLOR: blue">Seattle</span>/&gt;/&gt;<span style="COLOR: blue"> hemp Fest?”</span></font></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“A hemp enthusiast friend of mine kept rousting me to do it, so I did it on a lark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>However, if it’s of any importance, I used <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">virgin</i> hemp oil in the chainsaw’s engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I also lubricated the chainsaw’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">chain</i> with virgin hemp oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Everything worked just fine.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“One of your scientists in your documentary mentioned that plastics can be made from hemp oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Can hemp oil make better plastics than petroleum?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Hemp oil can make high-quality soft plastics, like plastic bags for sandwich wraps, or plastic bottles for water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But hemp oil cannot make extremely hard, high-heat-resistant plastics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Again, this requires the complex hydrocarbon elements found in petroleum.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“Do you consider yourself to be a hemp enthusiast in general?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span>“To some extent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I think that hemp makes long-lasting, high-quality textiles.  </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font face="Times New Roman">             </font></span><span style="COLOR: blue"><font face="Times New Roman">I own a pair of pants that are 100% hemp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The pants cost me $85 bucks, though.”</font></span></font></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“This shirt I’m wearing is 100% hemp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Feel it.”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">CO:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">      </span>“Hmm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It feels pretty soft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It’s not virgin hemp, is it?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">VJ:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">       </span>“No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It’s polished hemp, and it only cost me $40.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Can I see your tattoo again?”</font></font></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: blue"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDEN&lt;img class=" dada-image-center="" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Red_Heart.JPG"><br /><br /> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Red_Heart_Arrow.JPG" /><br /><br /> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Red_Heart_MOM.JPG" /><br /><br /> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Super_Computer_2.JPG" /><br /></p>

Interview with Captain Ozone http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/2186

Interview with Captain Ozone http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/2186