Author: Dave

The CHANGElings are out in force and full of HOPE. Finally the politicians are going to listen. Our Politician In Chief says so. “I will open the doors of government and ask you to be involved in our own democracy again. Well Mr. President Present (or absent as the case may be) we live in…

The groundhog has spoken.

It looks like the solar bubble is about to burst. Bringing an end to eight consecutive years of growth, global revenue for photovoltaic (PV) panels is expected to drop by nearly 20 per cent in 2009, as a massive oversupply causes prices to decline. Worldwide revenue from shipments of panels will decline to $12.9 billion…

We are at the point right now where the increased money supply looks like an increase in real demand. In 12 to 18 months price inflation will kick in. Then all hell will break loose. Had the money supply been increased by giving the money to profitable producers a lot of the damage would have…

First a couple of books mentioned in the video: Atlas Shrugged and The Road to Serfdom Stephen Moore, who you saw in the video, started the ruckus with the article in the Wall Street Journal called Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years. Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato…

American Superconductor is making 100 superconducting generator sets for China. DEVENS, Mass. –Jan. 22, 2009–American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, today announced that it has received a multi-million-dollar order for 100 sets of its wind turbine core electrical components from China’s CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute Co.(CSR-ZELRI), Ltd. The company will use…

Here is Obama’s plan for failure. For instance he has promised to lower the debt. I think that promise has expired. And he will be friendlier to the working class by destroying the companies they work for. The man is a genius. Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics (Economics in the Obama…

President Present is about to unveil his new spending plan. His old plan was spend first and plan later. Could it mean the old way has passed its expiration date? President Barack Obama said Saturday his administration will outline a new strategy in the coming days for spending billions of federal dollars to pull the…

Rush Limbaugh seems to be on a roll. At least he has rolled Obama (and by the end of his term I think you will have a hard time finding some one who hasn’t rolled Obama. 3 years 11 months 2 weeks and 6 days to go.) You can read the whole thing here. But…

Another short term contract [pdf] for wiffle ball fusion is out for bid by the US Navy. Here is the interesting part. 3.1.1 Contractor shall review the results from Contracts N00014-93-C-0224, N00014-96-C-0039, contract N68936-03-C-0031, and any other publically available current documentation regarding the technical research and development in the field of energy production using a…

Dr. Bussard thought that a full scale net energy Polywell Fusion program could be done for $200 million. What could be done to advance the knowledge base that wouldn’t require that kind of commitment? I have been giving some thought to what the next step in the Polywell Fusion experiments might be. Here is what…

I was reading Hendrik Tennekes on climate models and learned some very interesting mathematics. Let me walk you through it. It isn’t hard and it turns out to be very beautiful. First off let me give you the flavor of the man. Here is something he says that I really like: “Physicists dream of Nobel…

It seems to me that funding for the Polywell Fusion Project being run by EMC2 Fusion has stalled. So I want to do something about that. When ever you post a comment on a blog use this tagline: Why hasn’t Polywell Fusion been funded? If the blog allows embeded urls you can post this: Why…

It seems like the net is all abuzz about how climate science violates the principles of forecasting. Excellent. Except I blogged the very same report in June of 2007 at Principles Of Forecasting. Nice to see the folks on the net keeping up to date. Cross Posted at Power and Control

It is about a minute with English subtitles. The Jerusalem Post explains how this came to be. The Green Leaf Graduates, which split from the political party Aleh Yarok, best known for its advocacy of the legalization of cannabis, is making waves with its most recent announcement: a plan to incorporate the Holocaust Survivors Party.…

The Dallas Morning News says Obama is going to have trouble to his south. President Barack Obama’s agenda is already packed to the brim with urgent domestic and international issues. Another item – Mexico – deserves a place high on his list, though it’s rarely been apparent from Obama’s campaign and post-election public statements that…

Evidently Hamas was not really interested in a long cease fire with Israel. Ten days and the war is back on. The Israeli military says one soldier has been killed and three wounded in a bomb attack on the Gaza-Israel border. The bombing Tuesday marks the first serious clash along the border since a cease-fire…

The Pentagon is switching to LEDs. Cree, Inc. announced that more than 4,200 LR24 recessed LEDluminaires are planned for installation in Wedge 5 of the Pentagon as partof a major renovation currently underway. In a signing ceremony today at the Pentagon, John J. Kubricky, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Advanced Systems and Concepts, and…

It seems like the climate consensus is dying. “Vice President Gore and the other promoters of man-made climate fears endless claims that the “debate is over” appear to be ignoring scientific reality,” Senator James Inhofe, Ranking Member of the Environment & Public Works Committee. A U.S. Senate Minority Report released in December 2008 details over…

There is some very promising research that promises the development of a new kind of transistor. A team of Duke University chemists has modified a method for growing long, straight, numerous and well-aligned carbon cylinders only a few atoms thick that paves the way for manufacturing reliable electronic nanocircuits. The team had already described a…