Native American Chief Holds Patent for Viable Energy Source
As America looks to alternative energy sources, someone who respects the environment might have the answer to preserving it and solving the nation's alternative energy needs at the same time.
Carol Forsloff
This American original is more than a Chief in feathers. He is an engineer, business consultant, educated and successful man with a patent for an idea that might help solve the country's energy problem.
In fact the interest in the environment and the alternative energy solution may indeed be better than that of T. Boone Pickens because it uses already existing systems to harness energy in a new way.
Combine tknowledge of engineering principles, a lifetime of achievement, a Native American ancestry with the love of the land, and you have the ingredients for leadership in a key area of U.S. need. Chief Rufus Davis of the Adai Nation in Natchitoches Parish at Black Lake is the fellow who might help to get the country where it needs to be with respect to alternative energy sources.
This reporter has met Chief Davis on several occasions in the local community of Natchitoches while covering events for a local community paper. I have been aware of his cultural commitments and the affection and regard with which he is held by members of all the ethnic groups of Natchitoches Parish in Louisiana. Chief Davis professional training and concern for alternative energy, and his newest invention, were the topics covered for this article.
Chief Davis is a man of distinction in Natchitoches Parish. He is known as that on many levels and for many things. He is the chief of the Adai Nation consisting of 1200 people scattered in different parts of the country and the principal Native American tribe in Natchitoches that preceded the French and Spanish settlers of Louisiana. This gives him influence and credibility with many people. Chief Davis straddles his culture and contemporary America as easily as one would straddle a horse to prepare to ride victoriously. His dedication to the preservation of Native North American culture is known throughout the Ark-La-Tex. But Chief Davis is more than an environmentally sensitive individual with historical roots in the soil.
Chief Davis, who studied engineering at the University over a number of years, has been a long term contractor with oil and gas lines and water treatment/and waste disposal systems. His business is located in several locations in the South where he is considered a very successful businessman/consultant. Chief Davis has several patents for inventions in his industry. Now he has a new one that could make the difference in Barack Obama's plan to bring alternative energy sources to the forefront of this country.
The use of sewer systems, Chief Davis said, would allow an alternative energy that meets the needs of people because it harnesses existing equipment and resources. It also is able to produce energy during peak periods and is reduced when people need energy less.
Given the energy demands of the country and the desperate problems related to solving energy problems to remove US dependence on foreign oil, Chief Davis contribution can be significant. It is likely a contribution that Barack Obama will want in the upcoming months after he takes office. It could be that the skill, conscience and leadership of this American original will allow America to have that alternative energy source to alleviate, if not remove, the country's dependence on foreign oil.
Chief Davis is known as one who loves people, the land and as a descendant of those who valued the environment has a vested interest in preserving it. Perhaps his is the solution to the issues of alternative energy that is environmentally friendly and that can help Barack Obama meet the goal of his administration. to bring new energy sources to the country.
