Beginning Bloggerhood Under Construction

Randy Tinkerman, California windpower pioneer, screenwriter, and self-styled Global Village Idiot has been secreted incommunicado in deepest Deutschland for four years, in self-imposed exile from beloved San Francisco and the black oil tar horror that has become america. But I have chosen this day, Nikolaus Tag, to begin to emerge from the shadows. It was four years ago this day that i landed in Remscheid for a short visit, and stayed pursuing the dream of a renewable energy future.

A man willing to follow his vision, nearly the same story played out almost thirty years ago as i uprooted myself to San Francisco with just a dream, later playing a major role in the development of the world's first utility scale windplant parked in California's Altamont Pass.

I don't know how i've survived all the changes, and how i've kept my spirit alive through some of the darkest days of my life. But it's time to write my way back into the world, often using the character i created for my first novel, Global Village Idiot. Here i'll comment on all i see and understand from deep in "Old Europe." Please stay tuned, you won't believe the ride.