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The more time that Republican candidates and the news media spend talking about Joe Biden issues the more the Democrat candidates like it.

This Minute’s Political Truths

The more time that Republican candidates and the news media spend talking about Joe Biden issues the more the Democrat candidates like it. Most especially, Democrat leadership wants us to be talking about Biden’s age. First, when you’re doing that you are not talking about his performance, and not talking about the performance of Democrat… Continue reading This Minute’s Political Truths

Clean Wind Power

Windmills have significant embedded costs. Surprisingly, they are significantly environmentally destructive. Each weighs 1,688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1,300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass. Carrying on a recurrent theme here, we have the rare and expensive to extract rare earths neodymium,… Continue reading Clean Wind Power

Clean Solar Power

Purifying silicon requires processing with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone and incorporating gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium-diselenide, and cadmium-telluride; much of this is highly toxic. Silicone dust is a hazard to the workers. It’s not like you can have a conveyor belt that takes sand into a containment vessel and spray… Continue reading Clean Solar Power

A Battery Is Not a Panacea

You might think your electric vehicle (EV) runs because it makes electricity. You’d be wrong. Your EV stores electricity produced elsewhere. “Where does the electricity for charging come from?” “That’s simple! It comes down a wire!”

Set the Market Free

To preannounce, this is an essay with two bottom lines. What else should one expect when dealing with a topic so involved as the US macroeconomic situation, Fiscal plus Monetary Policy thrown in, and a smattering of GDP, supply and demand, and interest rates? Besides, it’s all in the totalization of the accounting with a double underline at the end.

Flights of Fancy

In the make-believe world of Psaki Reality seems somewhat wacky. Rules made up by a clown What’s gone up’s really down? But fear not, she will still circle backy

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Regular Order

We can thank cool heads for bureaucracy. I am not kidding you. No, I am not talking about the processing kind where some piece of paper goes past a desk where two pieces of paper are launched in different directions, eventually circualting around and progenating reams of forms, memoranda, studies, reports, critiques, agendas, minutes, focus… Continue reading Regular Order

The Most Uncommon Thing

A couple things bear close inspection among the probably half million in the US thinking about and working on how to handle this pandemic. Well, there are dozens of things to thing about, hundreds, tens of thousands. But let’s get back to principles; I’m talking the basics here. These are three that need some attention.… Continue reading The Most Uncommon Thing