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Offshoring and Outsourcing are good — Brooks
“Offshoring and outsourcing has been good for American productivity.” So says New York Times David Brooks, in his 2012 Jul 16 essay (published Tuesday, Jul 17, in the NYT Op-Ed section). This is in direct confrontation to Paul Krugman’s July … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged David Brooks, economy, Keynsian economics, new york times, offshoring, outsourcing, Paul Krugman
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Outsourcing and Offshoring Help The Income Pump
Krugman points out 2 ways to transfer income upwards – outsourcing and offshoring The process I call The Income Pump switched on in the 1981-82 time frame. Not sure what are all mechanical parts making up that pump, but it … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged income inequality, Income Pump, Krugman, offshoring, outsourcing, Saez
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The Web Of Privatized Space 1 – Crew and Cargo
So many commercial players in space – Are they “private?” Can they survive? Today, there is a complex array of spacefaring private entrepreneurs, people who dream of making a business out of space related activities. It is easy to become … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged CST-100, Cygnus, DreamChaser, Energiya, Excalibur Almaz, Lifting Bodies, MPCV, Orbital Sciences, Orion, Skylon, SpaceX, WSPC
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Dreams – Deferred or Lost?
Strangulation of technical achievement indicates a more general social crisis. Not to ignore SpaceX successes, May was a difficult month to be positive about American future technical and social directions. These comments indicated problems: 2012-0506 Edward Conard was in … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Dennis Overbye, Dreams Deferred, DUSEL, EUCLID, LHC, new york times, SSC, Steven Weinberg, Tevatron, WFIRST
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The Conard justification – Income inequality
Conard’s upcoming book justifies uninterrupted income grab by the people who caused the mess. Edward Conard’s soon-to-be-released book is Unintended Consequences, Why Everything You’ve Been Told About The Economy Is Wrong . The New York Times devoted many pages to Conard … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged Adam Davidson, Edward Conard, income inequality, new york times, Unintended Consequences
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The American Income Pump matters to us
The Income Pump that started in 1981 has had huge impact on American Society, and not good. Our Page, The American Income Pump, summarizes a strange process that started about 1980 or 1981 and has continued through today. Consider all … Continue reading
Privatized Space – SpaceX
SpaceX delays launch to ISS again. Looks like they actually want to be successful. The hard-tech news these days is that SpaceX plans to launch a resupply mission to the International Space Station to test their man-rated Dragon capsule. This … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Dragon Capsule, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, ISS resupply, N1 rocket, SpaceX, Vanguard Rocket
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Fusion Wins Reprieve
House ignores Obama, grants required fusion research budget, but it will not be over until after the elections. Last week, we saw an astounding finish to the congressional budget assignments. Rather than finding its coffin lid nailed closed, at this … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged 2013 congresional budget, Alcator C-mod, David Malakoff, DIII-D, Fusion, ITER, MFE, MIT, NIF, Science Insider
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Petroleum exports skyrocket while oil prices rise
On 2012 Mar 07, The U.S. Energy Information Administration released a report on the history of U.S. liquid petroleum products (crude oil, gasoline, kerosene, …) highlighting the positive fact that exports are leading imports for the first time in 6 … Continue reading
US Petroleum Exports are Huge
On March 7, last week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a short report that showed that in 2011, U.S. petroleum exports exceeded imports for the first time since 1949. That was their headline. The data in this report … Continue reading
Keystone XL Is About Exports
Is the Keystone XL push to the Texas coast for American energy or for export? The U.S. EIA released a new graph that is an attention-getter. In 2011, petroleum exports exceeded imports. This was the first time for this in … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Resources
Tagged Cusing Oklahoma, Keystone XL, oil export, petroleum, tar sands, TransCanada, WTI
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Footprints in the sand2 – US Oil
By the late 1930s, U.S. oil industry knew continued expansion was not possible, but lived in a state of denial. Records of petroleum production are like signposts on the roadway, pointers for future directions for life quality – indicators of … Continue reading
American Fusion – Twilight of the Gods?
The American fusion effort needs help to defend against planned budgetary destruction. “Bigger Contribution to ITER Erodes Domestic Fusion Program” is the headline in this week’s Science Magazine report by Adrian Cho. It refers to the 2013 budget decisions at … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Alcator C-mod, DIII-D, Fusion Energy Budget, GA, NSTX, PPPL, Science Magazine, Spherial Tokamak, Spherical Torus
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Records of Inequality – Footprints in the sand 1
George Orwell missed by 4 years. Massive social changes have happened over the last 30 years. Our hugely powerful American society strongly differs from what it was then. This is the first of a series that will look at some … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged 30 year trends, Emmanual Saez, income inequality, new york times, Robert Reich, workforce evaluations
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Tom Friedman and The End of US Manufacturing
Outsourcing destroys our well of creativity, it is terminating American excellence, Mr. Friedman. Thomas Friedman’s column Made In The World, in the 2012 Jan 29 issue New York Times is the ideological bible for modern business. He had better be … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged inequality, Michael Dell, Mike Splinter, new york times, outsourcing, Steve Jobs, Thomas Friedman, Yossi Sheffi
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Has NIF been retasked?
Have U.S. laser fusion goals been delayed by the atomic weapons establishment? In the news this week NIF (National Ignition Facility) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has had its fusion energy test plans slowed an unknown number of months, … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Clery, icf, laser fusion, livermore, LLNL, national ignition facility, NIF, Science Magazine
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Keystone XL and the Quality Ethic
The year-old Keystone pipe line has intrinsic quality issues. Cancel the XL upgrade! Last last Saturday, the Lincoln Nebraska online news journal, the JournalStar, published an article by an engineering whistle blower, Mike Klink. His point: The XL initiative is … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Resources
Tagged Bechtel, Keystone XL, Mike Klink, quallity, TransCanada
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Paul Wheaton, CFLs and Huh?
CFL superiority is tested. Here is the report I ran across this blog post by Paul Wheaton, a Wyoming permaculturist (his main thrust is about agriculture that is fundamentally sustainable and permanent), decided to get financed and do some tests … Continue reading
The Mercury Connection – Fluorescent vs. Incandescent
The EPA’s power plant emission ruling makes fluorescents much worse mercury polluters than incandescents. This year the fluorescent light lobby has publicizing estimates that show that incandescent lights cause more mercury emission than fluorescents because they use more power. This … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Resources
Tagged CFL, coal burners, epa, Fluorescent light, mercury compounds, mercury releases, power plant emission
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EPA Limits Mercury in Environment – Is it enough?
Are the new EPA power plant rules strong enough? Will they work as popularized? The Environmental Protection Agency just announced (2011 Dec 21) that it has issued its CSAPR (cross state air pollution regulations) will begin to enforce emission standards … Continue reading
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