Dana's goals and achievements in life were driven by an obsession to make the world a better place in which we all live. The communications revolution that she ushered in made a positive difference to hundreds of millions of people worldwide, especially children. Her wireless product allowed quality information and education to reach the most remote parts of our globe. She had done a great thing for humanity. Yet the very thing that helped so much, and made her so personally wealthy and powerful, even counted among the world's elite; was taxing our world's power supply and was a major contributor to Global Warming. The dichotomy was a source of deep emotional anguish for Dana. With just a few days till her meeting with Steve, Dana decided it would be best is she retreated to her picturesque cabin in Montana, nestled away on 200 acres in the Rocky Mountains. During her time of seclusion, Dana chose a path that lined up with her heart and head. It would mean drastic changes at Freewire and in her personal life, but it was the only choice that would be acceptable for her.
Dana called Steve and let her know her decision. She suggested that they meet and put together a loose outline fist thing Friday morning and then plan the press conference for 10AM. Steve agreed, although he knew what this meant, there was no sense in protesting. He new Dana well enough to know that there was no room for negotiation, especially on this one in particular. So it was set.
Friday July 18th, 2008 – 10AM
“ I have called this press conference to announce the decisions that we have made at Freewire to address the looming issue of power grid failures and our intentions and plans to rectify this very serious situation that we face as a company. It has occurred to us that this is not an isolated issue that we can address with some sort of reduced usage plan. This is an issue that the global community must face. We are all acutely aware of the environmental strains that energy production and demand has put on our world. The time to address this in now. So I have decided to do my part to find a solution that benefits us all, not just Freewire and it's customers.
Therefore I have resigned as CEO of Freewire this morning. Steve Cross will take over all my duties and will carry his duties as President of Freewire. Freewire will form a partnership with a non-profit company that I will form and head up. I have donated all my personal financial wealth to start this company. That figure is somewhere in the $60 billion range, depending on the markets reaction to this move. The new company will pool all the resource that we can pull together for academia, scientists, business leaders, corporations, governments, environmentalists, and any other help we can find. I decided that if I, “put my money where my mouth is”, so to say; then maybe other will follow, and we can find a real an workable solution to our energy problems. We need a NOW solution, and I have found that money gets people to be very creative, for better or worse. I hope that this will motivate for the better.
At this time we do not have any details of our plan, only a loose outline. Steve and I will be hamming out the details with a team that we have put together this week, that will grow exponentially over time. We won't be answering any questions today. We will schedule a follow-up press conference as soon as we have a detailed plan. Thank you.” Dana and Steve turned to leave quickly. The press was in an uproar. They were furious that they would make an announcement like that and not take questions. Although the smart ones were setting up live feeds and reporting “on the fly”.
Dana was tired of the way we fought wars. This was her personal war of the terrorists. If fossil fuels fueled their economies and finance attacks on us, then we could stop the fight by stopping the financing. True to form her leadership abilities brought together the foremost experts in environmental science, fossil fuels, alternative energy, power production, logistics, distribution, nuclear science, weather and climate sciences, finance, governments, and volunteers from the general poulation around the world. Her decision to put her “money where her mouth is”, created a ripple effect at a time when the world need something to believe in. The economies around the world, especially in the United States, were on shaky ground. When she put all that money into circulation for research and development of an energy solution, it shifted something in the psyche of people. People began to believe that, if business leaders and governments believed there was a solution and were willing to put money and time towards it, then maybe there really was an answer to $4 plus gasoline prices at the pump. Maybe there was a solution to corn and grain prices going so high that a whole new group of people where now facing the possibility of starvation.
Dana also decided privately early on that she would be the only person that would hold all the keys to all the parts of any discoveries, at least until it could be brought to market. because if a technology could be found that would destroy the world's reliance on fossil fuels, it would be very dangerous for everyone “in the know”. Entire country's economies are based on fossil fuel production and sales for their livelihood. Not to mention, the very powerful corporations and politicians in America, who would do anything, including wage war, which is going on at present and would be a further possibility in the future. It was because of the threat death and corruption that Dana decided to deal with the burden of secrecy herself. There would be small groups that would work independently and occasionally work together on joint issues. This would be a logistical nightmare, but it was the only way to protect everyone. This was not a totally foreign process to her because the technology industry operates on the same principle for protection from competition during development of new products.
April 10th, 2009 – Albuquerque, New Mexico
The research team stumbled upon something as they were working on some variations of the currently available alternative energy solutions such as; wind power, solar power, and hydrogen power production. They were studying weather patterns and their effect on different variations of power generation sources. They were sending a lot of stuff into the atmosphere like balloons and inert gases, which are already occur naturally in our atmosphere in order to see how to create a steady flow of the the power source, whether that be wind, sun , gas (like hydrogen), or whatever the medium. Then it started to happen, the anomalies in the weather, freak snow storms south of where they were, scorching heat in the snow capped mountains west of them causing snow melt followed by floods, and even tornadoes in the desert. So they halted testing immediately.
One of the requirements of this project was that once the initial investment was made to install the technology, that it could be continued to be produced with only man hours, no additional cost of drilling mining coal fired plants, etc... It must produce energy that is renewable. it had to be able to be deployed to even the poorest and most remote parts of the world with a minimal environmental impact. Initially these test held promise and they were testing their theory in various sites throughout the world. Another requirement was that it could be deployed in any environment, climate, and topography.
They eliminated the hydrogen from their experiments and tried another approach. Immediately they saw tremendous results. It was working in almost every situation where they tested around the world everyone was very hopeful. Then it began happening. It was now February of 2010, testing had been working for the last nine months. But now unusual atmospheric conditions began to concern Dr. Christopher David. He noticed that the weather anomalies were occurring again, although not nearly as severe as the original problems in New Mexico. The concern for Dr. David was the large fields of electricity being produced, but not harnessed, seemed to be the very thing that was creating these weather problems. His observations made him very unpopular among his colleagues. They viewed him a the guy who was trying to find something wrong with something that was creating great hope. So the decision that he made to report these issues to Ms. Scales was going to make him very unpopular.
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