by Admin | Jan 1, 1980 | Awards and Recognitions, Hydrogen Energy
The 100 Most Powerful People for the 80’s With the exceptions of Ted Turner and a few politicians, nobody who has power or is seeking it wants to say so. It’s unseemly. When people learned that NEXT was planning to cite them for their likely roles in...
by Admin | Jan 1, 1980 | Awards and Recognitions, Hydrogen Energy
For many people, the line between science and religion is as distinct as the difference between night and day. Not so for TOYM honoree Roger Billings! “Many of my most interesting mental experiments have come as results of things I have read and pondered in the...
by Admin | Apr 21, 1979 | Hydrogen Energy
Recently, MOTHER EARTH NEWS sent a staffer and a photographer out to Provo, Utah to talk to Roger Billings, head of the Billings Energy Corporation. Between manufacturing computer systems and doing hydrogen research, Mr. Billings is quite a busy gentleman....
by Admin | Jan 1, 1979 | Milestones
When the microprocessor chip came out in the early 1970’s, Billings jumped on the opportunity and developed his own microcomputer line –one of the first. With his new Computer System, he founded the Billings Computer Corporation. Early in his work in the computer...
by Admin | Jan 1, 1978 | Milestones
John Wayne had a way of getting things said — and done. Here, with Roger and members of the Billings team, Wayne voiced his support for hydrogen — cowboy style. Even after the oil crisis, some still remembered. John Wayne’s commitment to America was more...