Energized Gold

About the Book

A young college graduate from M I T develops an innovative technology to convert cosmic energy into conventional, environmentally clean, electricity.  Large quantities of gold are required for the solid state collection, absorption and conversion process.  The U.S. Government underwrites the first power station, which is secretly installed at the Camp David Presidential Retreat.

Commercial implementation of this new technology would threaten worldwide financial markets, driving the price of gold to $1000 an ounce and force foreign exchange transactions to gold-backed currencies.  International monetary reform would be mandated, forcing fiscal responsibility, which would curtail massive Government entitlement programs- - -the root of all U.S. political power for the past 50 years

Power-hungry White House dissidents temporarily thwart this attempt to monetize gold with the mysterious disappearance of the Camp David generating equipment and the simultaneous, unfortunate death of the President’s Chief of Staff.

The protagonist’s entrepreneurial persistence combines with the romantic pursuit of a young White House staff assistant to enhance his search for the missing power station.  Electronic monitoring equipment, mounted on the fuselage of a small airplane, locates the missing equipment.  The aircraft is sabotaged, but the pilot survives the crash landing.

Subsequent effort to recover the generator fails as destabilized weather conditions in the Washington area bring a devastating lightning strike.  The power equipment is destroyed…leaving only unrecognizable ash…along with the bodies of the First Lady and her brother, dead at the site.

A staff assistant to the First Lady, shocked and demoralized by the lost opportunity to help her best friend become the first woman President of The United States, chooses suicide rather then prison for her part in the Camp David incident.

Flush with insurance money---payment for the lost power generating equipment---the budding genius and his bride search for Utopia.  They exercise a Native American territorial option, which had been smoldering in the bride’s family’s attic for 150 years, and settle along the White River in Northern Arkansas.  Sovereign rights to the property allow the energetic couple the freedom to pursue alternative methods of exporting the American Entrepreneurial Dream to the borderless world of the 21st century.

A manufacturing facility and entrepreneurial training institute is established on the sovereign territory where trainees from foreign nations provide the manufacturing labor to produce the generating equipment while learning managerial business practices.

Proponents of The New World Order successfully block future World Bank and IMF funding for cosmic energy generators, purchased by developing third world countries. Entrepreneurial ingenuity, however, prevails as attractive incentives convince U.S. pension fund managers to shift liquid investments into high yielding capital equipment leases for the new cosmic energy power stations.  This timely action prevents Federal taxing authorities from bleeding $600 billion of employee savings from these pension funds for federal government initiated Social Engineering / Entitlement Programs.

The price of gold soars to $1000 an ounce.  World economies thrive as entrepreneurial freedoms propel 21st century capitalism.  And a new found appreciation for the social dimension enables the protagonist to perceive the true meaning of Energized  Gold.

About the Author

The author received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from M I T, is a former Naval Officer, private pilot and entrepreneur. He has been intimately involved in many facets of the energy industry while living in Houston, Texas since the early 1950s. He started a company that manufactures electro-mechanical equipment for the military, oceanographic and petroleum industries----worldwide. Product development and patent experience provide personal knowledge for pursuing 21st century technologies. Gold speculation and a Swiss Bank Account in the early 1970s give insight to the need for monetary reform and gold-linked currencies for both political accountability and the new One World Economy. He sees entrepreneurial freedom and independence as essential for worldwide human progress----to meet the demands of future generations.