I have been thinking about this for quite a while (and mentioned it in a few posts), but this article has prompted me to finally write a post that focuses on it:
Welcome to the 1 percent recovery
That elite …
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The real problem is with the people, not the technology
I was reading this interesting article (likely too long for many readers) about one of the personalities behind the whole Fracking issue and thought I would use that as incentive to talk about some of my thoughts on the issues …
Is no news bad news or good news?
OK, nothing has grabbed me today but in an effort to reward (punish?) those loyal reader(s) I figured I would spew some random thoughts in an attempt at being interesting and/or entertaining enough to justify your visits.
The US continuing …
Some thoughts for some arguments
I have been busy teaching a class this week (complete with 10 hour days, but at least I get paid for it all) so haven’t had time to troll the news sites as is my wont. I got an email …
Retirement insurance, or what Social Security ought to be
I was reading an article the other day (which didn’t prompt a post at the time) that discussed the idea of retirement insurance. The basic idea of the article is that the 401K concept is fundamentally flawed for the people …
Biofuels are hard!
After my initial theoretical calculations (see http://sol-biotech.com/wordpress/2011/12/28/biofuel-calculations/) several people greeted my 25 apples/sqft assumption with a lot of skepticism. I also developed a lack of faith in the number when I compared my bushels/acre based on 25/sqft with the …
Endlessly optimistic
A dearth of posts lately, but there is a reason for it I will now bore you with… For those reader(s) who aren’t aware, my lovely wife and I have built a house out in the Virginia countryside (see http://sol-system.com/koxenrider/property/…
Biofuel calculations…
I thought I would document my thought process on a biofuel-based product that I recently conceived of. This is the sort of economic analysis I use when I evaluate alternatives (for my take on alternatives in general, please see The …
Interesting thoughts on morality
Good Minus God
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/good-minus-god/
The author interestingly seems to conclude that atheists have the potential to make more and better moral decisions because they are atheists when compared to theists because of theists belief in god as the arbiter of …
One Trillion People!
This is an article of my own. I have been studying aquaponics for quite a while (likely close to a decade) and am in the midst of building a 2K sqft greenhouse to put some techniques to test in the …