IDEAS PAGE

CONTEXT

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It is easy for some of us to have ideas. At the same time it is usually hard to implement ideas.

This page is a place to share ideas planted in my mind over the years. Like any other record, these ideas are colored by the cultures I am involved in, including but not limited to Mormonism (Judaic-Christianity), Americanism (capitalistic-democracy), and the geoscience branch of the international oil and gas exploration and production community. For instance, I choose to believe many of these ideas come by the spirit of truth, or the Holy Ghost. At the same time, I actually do recognize some of my weaknesses, and if you generated one of these ideas, and wish to correct me in one of my ego-centric moments, the process is set up to share proper acknowledgements, and any rewards, if there happen to be any. Since I control the web site, I will make the final decision on ownership, unless you prefer to take the matter to a court of law. I do consider it part of my stewardship for being given these ideas to protect them to the best of my ability. I also feel an obligation to my current employer, Continuum Resources, and any ideas directly related to Continuum's business and which there are resources at the Continuum to implement will be transferred to the company. Protection means copyright, patent, limited access, and other standard methods of reasonable control, as well as seeking legal recourse for blatent non-compensated use of these ideas.

A trade-off in Intellectual Property protection of ideas is that there is little opportunity to see ideas implemented if the ideas are not shared. Since the web is better used to prototype technology to empower the user (the brain), and not to play a video game (Internet), I am selecting to share these ideas with you, an individual I have come to trust, normally after many years of association, or an individual who someone I trust has a similar trust in, etc. Please do not abuse this trust, as any callous self-promotional use of an idea will come out, will be documented at this site, possibly will be challenged in court, and after such a misuse of privledge it will naturally be hard to regain the trust of those associated with this list of ideas, particularly those who have been taken advantage of.

Ideas are not considered Walden 3-D, Inc. intellectual property if:

you can show the idea to be known, without violation of any confidentiality agreements, as of the date of first accessing this page;
the idea is already in possession of the public, or becomes available to the public, other than through your acts or omissions in violation of this notice;
the idea is required to be discolsed under an applicable law, order, decree, regulation, or rule of:
1. a governmental entity having jurisdiction over you, or
2. any regulatory entity, securities commission, or stock exchange on which your securities or any of your Affiliated companies securities are to be listed, provided you send me written notice before making the disclosure;
the idea is acquired independently from a third party who has the right to disseminate it at the time you receive it; or
the idea can be shown to have been independently developed by you without access to this Ideas Page

I do regularly monitor and record the IP addressess and times of access of everyone who views this and other pages at http://www.walden3d.com.

Since most of the world is focused on money, let me share my intentions within my philosophy of Sufficiency, Sustainability, and Stewardship. I will use the benefits derived from these ideas to meet my family's reasonable needs and wants. All additional goodwill and income will go to build or will be transferred to the planned Walden 3-D Foundation, which will be dedicated to continuing to make a difference and to making the world a better place for each of us and each of our descendents. A side note: I have been planning the W3D Foundation since the 1980's, and wrote these words before the interesting 24 July 2000 time magazine article featuring the new philanthropists arrived.

Again, if you have this web address it is because you are someone I trust, or else someone who someone I trust has similar trust in. Please honor this trust. Please acknowledge the idea source as "Walden 3-D, Inc." For publications this acknowledgement should be written. For financial benefits derived from use of the ideas acknowledgement should include a generous preagreed "commission" to Walden 3-D, Inc., or, once it is established, to The Walden 3-D Foundation. If you are interested in pursuing one of these ideas, as a Team Member, or as the Team Leader, please let me know. I will include a list of interested parties at the bottom of the page, cross-referencing the ideas you are interested in, and your contact information. Please register your plan to use the idea in advance by sending an e-mail to me at rnelson@walden3d.com.

In summary, the intention of publishing this list is to identify champions interested in pursuit, enhancement, investment, joint research, progress reports, etc. related to specific ideas. Again, please acknowledge by e-mail your willingness to:

your willingness to be listed as an Associate, Team Member, or Team Leader;
your view about independently derived variations of any idea listed, specifically if it puts at question idea "ownership" by Walden 3-D, Inc.;
your willingness to treat each non-contested original idea as the Intellectual Property of Walden 3-D, Inc.; and
your willingness to help coordinate efforts to implement any particular idea.

And lastly, please forward comments and other related interests to me at rnelson@walden3d.com

Best Regards,

H. Roice Nelson, Jr.
July 2000

Geotechnical

Build Immersive Reality Outcrop Analogs
1. Digitize and Productize Ward Abbott's Library of Photos
2. Build Colorado River Trip and Other Similar Immersive Reality Field Trips
3. Integrate Exercise Machines with Immersive Topography or Bathymetry or Immersive Reality Field Trips.
Geothermal Mapping

Work with Byron Arnason to map and test potential fields methodologies in Southern Utah, along an extended trend including the Phillips geothermal plant near Milford:

Enoch
Shirts Canyon
Hurricane

Map and evaluate other Rocky Mountain potential geothermal energy sources

Use large scale networked and distributed computing environment (see Environment 10.2.1-3 below) to do geotechnical simulations including:

Full elastic wave equation forward modeling.
Prestack elastic wave depth migration.
Seismic bin-sized very-large reservoir simulation.
Iterate each of the above with time-lapse seismic and production histories to create an optimal inverted real earth model solution from remote sensory data like gravity, magnetics, electrical, seismic, and production histories.

Perform reservoir characterization studies:
1. Place permanent geophones or hydrophones around a field:
Productize Sautec core photos and cuttings photos.
Map Ancient Inland Seas along Rocky Mountains:

Valley of Oaxaca (Relationship to II Nephi 10:20).
Extent and Reconstruction of Lake Bonneville.
Timing of Drainage of other large Rocky Mountain inland lakes; including at Mexico City.

Spatially document Parker Gay's work with regards to basement fault control of hydrocarbon traps:
1. Measure heat flow and see if it correlates with basement faults
Test Larry Cathles work on the potential of abiotic hydrocarbon sources, specifically as migration washes
Document potential sites and test Roger Anderson's ideas of dynamic replenishment of oil reservoirs
MesoAmerica Studies:

Build an immersive reality model of topography, mineral deposits, forests, ruins, timing, etc.
Collect geophysical data over the reservoir covering the archealogical site known as Santa Rosa, Guatemala (Innundated since 1974 by water backed up 70 miles behind the Angostura Dam and covering the largest archaeological site on the upper Grijalva [possibly the location of the Book of Mormon site Zarahemla {See John L. Sorenson: An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon, Deseret Book Company, 1985, pages 148-161.}]):
1. Collect gravity survey with 20 meter line spacing to note anomalies associated with buildings
2. Collect magnetic survey with 10 meter line spacing to identify any burried metal artifacts
3. Collect 3-D high resolution seismic for detailed site evaluation.
4. See if high resolution seismic can differentiate two kinds of base gravel, separated on east-west line (if the line can be identified from high resolution seismic as running north-south. Note: if this is so it implies the Book of Mormon coordinate system is rotated 90 degrees, which would match Mayan maps which always have east [sunrise] at the top of the map).
5. See if housing in oval shaped zones on either side of east-west (?) line.
Map out the regional orientation of Oaxaca's Monte Alban Building "J" and other equivalent buildings in the area and determine if they all point to a common spot, to test if this common point could be the Book of Mormon Land of First Inheritance (see 6.1 above).
Study and map out the relationship with the juncture of two major linguistic groups located in this area.

Environment

Improve air quality:
1. Document relative Carbon-Dioxide from cement and from hydrocarbon burning emmissions.
2. Study ways to naturally wash allergens, like pollens, out of the local atmosphere.
Create a new type of sound recording studio, particularly for recording accoustical guitar and singing:
1. Hemi-spherical enclosure with a diameter tied to the wavelength of sound waves to be reverberated.
2. Moveable sound reflecting panels on the sphere, which can be moved in to accommodate different "keys" or dominate frequencies.
3. Microphones which capture the direct sound, as well as the reverberating sounds, creating a surround recording which replicates the reverberations in the chapel next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa
4. Develop ways to electronically recreate this same effect.
Improve availability and quality of water:
1. Build a Greek Condensation Pyramid above Shirts' Canyon.
2. Map water use from "Clear" to "Gray" to "Black" to "Recycled" water.
3. Prototype and prove the viability of a "Mushroom Condensation Unit Personal" [M-CUP] as well as a "Mushroom Condensation Unit Group" [M-CUG].
4. Study nitrate waters in Cedar Valley, Iron County, Utah.
Agriculture:
1. Document hydrocarbon based fertilizers.
2. Use greenhouse to practice sustainable food production.
Document and study new types of building materials:
1. Document hydrocarbon based synthetics, composites, etc.
2. Study ways to use natural materials like volcanic rocks and iron ore in Iron County, Utah for building material.
Enclosures:
1. Document and protoype in immersive reality various classes of enclosures:
  1. Polyurethane-Gunite Housing.
  2. Pursue HH4H (Houston Habitat For Humanity) interest in the use of the LH7 Ranch and The Intelligent Habitat Project plans to take Habitat to a new level of providing houses.
2. Design communities around people rather than around cars:
  1. Consulting Community.
  2. Manufacturing Community.
  3. Product Community.
  4. Research Community.
  5. Retirement Community.
  6. Training Community.
Cloud Nine Floating Tensergity Spheres (see R. Buckminster Fuller: Critical Path, St. Martin's Press, 1981, pages 336-337:
1. Prototype the concept and the implementation using immersive reality
2. Construction:
  1. Bingham Copper Mine
  2. Volcano or Natural Spherical Depression
  3. Build in the Ocean or a Big Lake
3. Uses:
  1. Military Observation Deck and Transport
  2. Floating Cities
  3. Fluid Transport in Oceans
  4. Skyhook methodology to move the Salt Lake Temple from Salt Lake City to Jackson County, Missouri, the revealed site of "The New Jerusalem".
Information/Knowledge Management:
1. Use Continuum Resources' Knowledge Backbone(TM) to create ISO-14,000 companies (see kyoto.html)
2. Use Continuum Resources' CoReExplorer(TM) to prototype using process, measurement, and monitoring immersive reality models.
Transportation:
1. Expand Barker Intelligent Habitat Project work and create scientific studies on sprawl
2. Pursue options for improving traffic flow on Katy Freeway:
  1. Find the right people to suggest the city pave Barker Reservoir Dam from Barker-Cypress to Memorial and make it one-way during morning rush hour and one-way out during the evening rush hour.
  2. Study the possibility of limiting large truck access to federal Interstates that run through major metropolitan areas during rush hour traffic times.
Document ways of improving Decision Making:
1. Encourage development of ABCDD (Association for Better Citizen Design and Decisions).
2. Capture and use the MIPS (Millions of Instructions Per Second) in a Digital Community where everyone's computer is on the local network and spare cycles are used for:
  1. Business simulations.
  2. Site specific SimCity-Type Simulations.
  3. Geotechnical Simulations (see Geotechnical 3.1-4 above).
Redefine the role of Government in the age of networks:
1. Use Best Practice Methodology to identify best scientists in each of the physical and social sciences and organize them into a "Council of 50" to be scientific advisors to governments, global industries, and communities.
2. Formalize formation and potential members of Virtual Teams to solve significant problems.

Philosophy

Document and improve ways of encouraging learning:
1. Year 1. Pilot Course:
  1. Learning Objectives.
  2. Return on Training Investment.
  3. Protection of Proprietary Material.
  4. Course Selection.
  5. Course Content, Assembly, and Evolution.
  6. Richness of Media.
  7. Electronic Performance Support.
  8. Assessment Instruments.
    1. Keys to Learning:
      1. Motivated Learners.
      2. Time on Task.
      3. Appropriate Media.
      4. Effective Delivery.
2. Year 2. Comprehensive Partnership:
  1. Acceptance Criteria.
  2. Prioritization of Curriculum Development.
  3. Listening to Learners.
  4. Modifying Training Program.
3. Year 3. Implement Company Wide Just-In-Time Learning (based on Virtual Seminars and a training model from Ed Newman at Consolidated Graphics):
  1. Establish Schedule for Upgrades, New Course Additions, Upgrades.
  2. Program Evaluation Instruments.
  3. Web-Based Training.
Quantify reasons for personal motivation:
1. Family of origin influence.
2. Social influences.
3. Personality influences.
4. Spiritual influences.
Encourage Best Practice Documentation:
1. Document Processes using IDEF-0, defining the Node Tree as the process specific Knowledge Backbone(SM).
2. Document Skills in a spread-sheet and cross-reference against a process specific Knowledge Backbone(SM).
3. Document Resources in a spread-sheet and cross-reference against a process specific Knowledge Backbone(SM).
4. Cross-Reference previously documented Case Histories or Solutions via HTML links to a process specific Knowledge Backbone(SM).
Disseminate information about IDEF as a formal language of lines and boxes to create enterprise-wide and enterprise-deep communication:
1. Spread-sheet - Skills and Experience - Who?
2. IDEF-0 - Activities or Processes - What?
3. IDEF-1X - Data Catalog - Where?
4. IDEF-2 - Simulation - When?
5. IDEF-3 -Work Flow - How?
6. HTML - Context - Why?
Pursue the Bavinger Color Patent (currently being evaluated by Rice University):
1. Convert "data" to "patterns" to "invarient polynomials".
2. Use polynomials to build a framework for "process models" [Knowledge Backbones(SM)].
3. Use "invarient polynomials" and "process models" to define "interlocking matrices," or the database relationships between disciplines.
4. Use the "interlocking matricies" to build a dynamically updating "suitibility matrix" defining the relationship between business and technical "measurements" and "process models."
5. Cross reference "spatial location" and "temporal location" of "data" and "measurements" by means of the "infinite grid."
Document Lessons Learned from History:
- Biological Age -> Cells, Tissues, Organs, Organisms -> Grow -> Replacements
- Knowledge Age -> Experience -> Integration -> Models -> Context
- Information Age -> Data -> Usage -> Information -> Purpose
- Industrial Age -> Mining -> Transport -> Manufacturing -> Assembly Line
- Agricultural Age -> Farming -> Grow -> Food, Clothing, Shelter -> Find
- Hunter Gatherer Age -> Hunting -> Food, Clothing
Finish documenting the Book of Mormon Word Pattern
Develop a Universal Information Translator:
1. Space
2. Time
3. Matter
4. Dimensions
5. Movement
6. Choice <-
7. Transfer ->
8. Cooperation --><--
9. Cohesion <-->
10. Coupling <==>
11. Collaboration <-^->
12. Spatial to Spatial
13. Temporal to Temporal
14. Continuum to Spatial
15. Continuum to Temporal
16. Continuum to Continuum
17. Functional Silos to Functional Silos
Build a model of the interaction between natural systems and built form:

Art (see http://www.walden3d.com/hgol or http://www.hgol.net).
1. Formalize the Philosophy and Art Movement of Synergism
2. Use Chris Singfield's real color imaging to document quality art (see Geotechnical 5.)
Family:
1. Keep up weekly Thoughtlets.
2. Create and share digital libraries:
  1. Index Books.
  2. Have summaries typed or digitized of books I've read and put them on-line.
  3. Index tapes:
    1. Books on tape.
    2. Family video tapes.
  4. Index photographs and put them on-line:
    1. Slides.
    2. Pictures, creating an On-Line Photo Library.
    3. Reference Material.
    4. Personal Historical Material (turn 60 boxes in garage from atoms to cross-referenced electrons).
Populations
Demographics
Health Data
History
Anthropology
Skills
Communications
Patterns
Disparities
Decision Making
Economics
Legal
Process
Data Mining
Government Services
Composite Model
Natural Environment
Physiography
Land Use
Construction
Physical Structure and Infrastructure
Transportation
Energy and Utilities
Engineering
Environment
Hydrothermal
Geology
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Climate
Pollution
Astrophysics
Cosmology

Enable humanization of the Corporation:
1. Time Management (Franklin Planner)
2. Principle Centered Leadership (Franklin-Covey)
3. Quantitative Measurements of Needs and Wants (Birkman)
4. Applied Potential Capacity (Jacques and Cason)
Disseminate and encourage selection of Business Philosophy:
1. Fixed Pie: There is only so much out there, and if you get a bigger piece of the pie you are taking something from me.
2. Pie Building: I have an ingredient, you have an ingredient, and as long as we provide our ingredients we can make as many pies as we want to.
Share Personal Philosophy:
1. Sustainability: This is a principle first recognized from Buckminster Fuller's book "Critical Path." The present worldwide "green" movement conceptually typifies individuals living their lives in such a way as to return to the earth as much as they take from it. More general trends along this same line include growing your own food in a garden [greenhouse], reducing pollution, improving waste treatment and recycling, reducing energy consumption through developments like electric cars, and more efficient urban planning.
2. Stewardship: This is a New Testament concept that is typified by the parable of the ten talents. It is based on recognition that we come into the world naked, and what matters in eternity is how we use and magnify the blessings and opportunities we are given. This concept was put in focus in Stephen R. Covey's books "The Spiritual Roots of Human Relations" and "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People."
3. Sufficiency: This concept is described in the Doctrine & Covenants, III & IV Nephi, and Acts. It is based on the facts that there is only so much food an individual can eat, only a certain amount of clothing and shelter required to sustain life, and that once an individual defines what is sufficient for them all surplus should be consecrated to helping others and to making the world a better place. This is best summarized in Hugh Nibley's book "Towards Zion."

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