Feb
16
The Way to Lose Energy Jobs – Well Just Jobs
February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
It’s been said that all politics is local. So in less than 2 years we’ll get a shot at Congress again. The question that is begging answered is the same one that always matters to mayors and county officials – how to increase the tax base. The tax base is the local payrolls, property, income, […]
Feb
2
Addiction Economics
February 2, 2009 | 8 Comments
It’s not “voodoo economics” anymore. The U.S. Congress with an army of special interests bent on getting their losses covered by anyone other than their own capital have already cleaned the whole economy out of $700 billion and are busily setting up for spending hundreds of billions more if not more than another trillion dollars. […]
Jan
26
Will Peak Oil Become Gap Oil?
January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
Professor Chris Rhodes writing in Scitizen has offered the idea that “Gap Oil” could or should replace “Peak Oil.” It’s a concept that I could agree to, if the premise fit reality a little better. Professor Rhodes seems to like the idea that his thought of the “Gap Oil” label comes from him first, and […]
Jan
20
Let’s Not Kill All the Bankers
January 20, 2009 | 6 Comments
Later today then President Obama will give his inaugural address. There isn’t much likelihood that the speech will directly discuss banking and the mess its in or how to get the mess straightened up. I expect soaring rhetoric and hot air. The title today is a take off Shakespeare’s oft quoted, “lets kill all the […]
Jan
6
Short Term Thinking vs the Big Japanese Photovoltaic Business Gets Bigger
January 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
Yesterday saw the NEC Top 100 Technologies reviewed here and Al Fin kicking in Checkbiotech.org’s Top Bioenergy Companies on his energy blog. Then last night the news out of Japan has it that Toshiba, the huge company we see in electronics like laptop computers and TVs has jumped into utility scale solar photovoltaics. Now don’t […]
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