If you watch the nightly news or read the news on the web, it sounds like things are getting better. The stock market is up 40% over its low, the banks appear to be stable, job losses are tapering off, real estate sales are up 6% from the month before, and on and on – [...]
Archive for the ‘renewable energy’ Category
Is the Recession and the Financial Crisis Almost Over?
Posted in economy, government, health care, investing, politics, public policy, renewable energy on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hot, Flat, Crowded, and Stupid
Posted in economy, energy, renewable energy, tagged energy policy, globalization, hot, flat, crowded, Thomas Friedman on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am reading Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat and Crowded. It is an excellent book and addresses the essence of the problems the world faces, primarily global warming, although I get this nagging feeling that it is like so many such books, overly optimistic about the possibilities for the future. I suppose it has to be, [...]
Renewable Energy in the Obama Era
Posted in public policy, renewable energy on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
President Obama campaigned on renewable energy as a core part of his plan and is reportedly using billions of his stimulus plan to fund renewable energy. Of course, most of the stimulus plan is going to rebuild the exact same banking system using the exact same people as we had before, an amount between itself [...]
Is the World on the Brink?
Posted in energy, financing, foreign policy, public policy, renewable energy, tagged depression, economic meltdown, energy, famine, financial crisis, global warming, recession, renewable energy on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is it just me or does anyone else think that the world is doomed?
I’ve been around through several recessions, lived through a period where the world worried about imminent nuclear holocaust; but what the world faces today seems far more dangerous and possibly unsolvable. Of course we still face the threat from nuclear weapons with [...]
How does the Picken’s Plan stack up?
Posted in energy, energy policy, public policy, renewable energy, tagged energy policy, obama, pickens plan, renewable energy on February 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Pickens’ Plan is counting on government to do it all by doing things to encourage more big businesses to invest in renewable energy and then pretty much guarantee that they profit and profit handsomely. The Pickens’ Plan is claiming to be encouraging free enterprise, but if the government must be the means by which [...]
How should congress structure the economic stimulous package?
Posted in energy policy, government, public policy, renewable energy on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Republicans suck and need to be voted out of office. We need to use some common sense in dealing with the stimulus plan, and we need to get moving on renewable energy and an entirely new electrical grid.
Are Macs Really More Expensive than PCs?
Posted in economy, energy, renewable energy, tagged energy, global warming, mac, macintosh, Microsoft Windows, pc, renewable energy, Windows Vista on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was of the impression that an Apple Mac computer was more expensive than a PC running Microsloth Windows, but when all things are considered I’m not so sure. It is true that you can get into a Windows PC cheaper than a Mac, about half for a comparable hardware configuration. The story can’t end there. Windows [...]
A Plan for Green Schools
Posted in education, energy, energy policy, public policy, renewable energy on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many schools are starting to investigate ways to generate their own electricity and otherwise green up their image. Schools have received grants to install solar panels on their roofs and a few even erect small wind turbines away from their buildings. Part of the thinking is that if our children are expected to learn about [...]
When will congress take our economic survival seriously?
Posted in energy, energy policy, politics, public policy, renewable energy, tagged government spending, obama, retirement, stimulous plan on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today the senate decided that they had to mess with the stimulous package by playing politics instead of trying to do the right thing. They want to give everyone on social security $300. I’m sure everyone on social security is thrilled with the idea, yet we already know that todays recipients are receiving far more [...]
Congressional Stimulus Includes $20 Billion for Clean Energy
Posted in energy, investing, public policy, renewable energy on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Congress is about to pass a stimulus package that includes $20 billion for clean energy. This is better than no action at all, but a far smarter choice would be to support the Profitable Renewable Energy concept. The plan is called the PRE-Plan and it wouldn’t cost the federal government anything and it would raise [...]
