tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post8893858841871905108..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: December 8 2009: A Green Energy Revolution?Ilargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80325151581909932412009-12-11T07:41:49.567-05:002009-12-11T07:41:49.567-05:00thanks coyote for the feedback on my tumbleweed ho...thanks coyote for the feedback on my tumbleweed house idea. for some reason i had dismissed airstreams, but no longer! your (obvious, in hindsight) advice to spend less on a used rv was just the sort of common sense i was seeking. though i admit to having been temporarily swayed by the gmc here <br /><br />http://bellingham.craigslist.org/rvs/1469121711.html <br /><br />but, as tae summary benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89486243993945945382009-12-10T17:49:20.746-05:002009-12-10T17:49:20.746-05:00So a summary of the last 3 quarters in terms of Pr...So a summary of the last 3 quarters in terms of Private Sector Credit Contraction.<br /><br />Q1 saw a -1.78 Trillion dollar contraction in credit aka private sector deleveraging.<br /><br />Q2 saw a -2.32 Trillion dollar contraction in credit.<br /><br />Q3 saw a -1.81 Trillion dollar contraction in credit.<br /><br />So Q3 was the 2nd worst quarter ever in terms of credit contraction. <br /><brVKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06843562351166927162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-31366926738028096572009-12-10T04:21:19.283-05:002009-12-10T04:21:19.283-05:00Stoneleigh,
I guess you don't buy into Al Gor...Stoneleigh,<br /><br />I guess you don't buy into Al Gore's fear mongering( I don't) on global warming,such as your posturing on renewable's and the hidden costs to get them on stream.<br />If the Ontario grid system is antiquated, then lets fix it. I agree you don't put the cart ahead of the horse and produce something and scramble to find a way to transfer it and utilize it Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05389835212176313049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-42444628017247900762009-12-10T01:30:49.564-05:002009-12-10T01:30:49.564-05:00Farmer Amber said: "There are a lot of peopl...Farmer Amber said: "There are a lot of people in the USA who if given a basket of vegetables would have no idea how to turn it into something good to eat."<br /><br />Good point. I was teaching chemistry (on Vancouver Island) and used an example of home canning to show the applicability of a physical process. I was shocked to find than not a single one of the students had any Biologique Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410194284794713409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-84753632135530520512009-12-09T20:35:10.618-05:002009-12-09T20:35:10.618-05:00Rumor,
I am with you on the bitterness that th...Rumor,<br /><br /> I am with you on the bitterness that the "financial wizards" of this administration...It was pointed out to me in a very intense conversation with a friend that for instance...[It don"t matter..we will get screwed in this health care "reform" period so stop worrying and just admit we will be getting Fu#ked]<br /><br />The ones "in charge" snuffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03978637281755386311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-42372904987283321002009-12-09T12:21:30.834-05:002009-12-09T12:21:30.834-05:00Re fats for a doomstead:
Nut trees are essential ...Re fats for a doomstead:<br /><br />Nut trees are essential for a doomstead. Nuts and seeds -- especially walnuts, hemp and flax -- provide essential omega 3s fatty acids. Also, omega 3s plant sources are found to a lesser degree in greens and some legumes/beans. Humans can live without consuming saturated fat and cholesterol (the latter only found in animal products), but we cannot live withoutAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52926873666366218122009-12-09T12:10:25.663-05:002009-12-09T12:10:25.663-05:00tlypps,
while I agree we have an antiquated grid ...tlypps,<br /><br /><i>while I agree we have an antiquated grid system that has finally been acknowledged by the OPA and Hydro One when it comes down to winding capabilities in our generators, the Ontario government is moving expeditiously to quell this present situation where the grid is reasonably up to snuff.</i><br /><br />Grid capacity will be very limited for years. Even if we had no loomingStoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-81269435543586953572009-12-09T11:58:55.484-05:002009-12-09T11:58:55.484-05:00WgS said ...
"One day every damn thing in thi...WgS said ...<br />"One day every damn thing in this country will be broken. Then, folks will have to wake up and wonder who's gonna fix it?"<br />---- <br />Time lines and locations will be different for everyone. <br /> <br />It's too late to make enough trades men.<br /><br />Being a tradesman is about acquiring the ability to use tools, (by doing), and learning learning jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-84068916610324824282009-12-09T11:45:24.305-05:002009-12-09T11:45:24.305-05:00Windboy,said
while I agree we have an antiquated ...Windboy,said<br /><br />while I agree we have an antiquated grid system that has finally been acknowledged by the OPA and Hydro One when it comes down to winding capabilities in our generators, the Ontario government is moving expeditiously to quell this present situation where the grid is reasonably up to snuff. I have a 20 mgwt wind project going up predicated on the FIT approval currently Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05389835212176313049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7794709478597314632009-12-09T11:31:56.208-05:002009-12-09T11:31:56.208-05:00Geithner extends TARP? What a surprise.Geithner extends TARP? What a surprise.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15614205920972531674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-27064559014198521082009-12-09T11:05:37.015-05:002009-12-09T11:05:37.015-05:00What Snuffy says losing about "the ones who m...What Snuffy says losing about "the ones who make it work" is so sadly true. Those folks are still out there, but they cannot make it forever on their own. They need jobs. <br /><br />For instance, my brother worked half his life refitting cargo planes for CDF to fight fires. <br /><br />He is one of those folks who can fix anything and find a way to make or improve just about Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-78082047996856358492009-12-09T10:54:37.552-05:002009-12-09T10:54:37.552-05:00Worth quoting:
"Matt Yglesias says it's ...<a href="http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/12/old-dogs-old-tricks" rel="nofollow">Worth quoting</a>:<br /><br />"<a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/12/bernanke-used-to-know-what-to-do.php" rel="nofollow">Matt Yglesias says</a> it's puzzling that Ben Bernanke isn't adopting a more expansionary monetary policy in order to jumpstart the job market. <a href="Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15614205920972531674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7796565376042255922009-12-09T10:37:11.928-05:002009-12-09T10:37:11.928-05:00Stoneleigh ~ Ontario grid representitive of probl...Stoneleigh ~ Ontario grid representitive of probles across the continet.....leads to false sense of secutity.<br /><br />I would argue that certain features vary. Hydroelectric generation on smaller U S rivers is mostly nonexistant, gen equipment had been sold off to S America in favor of coal and now gas fired<br />Means. All those small sub stations were converted to automatic, paving the sevenleaguebootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078151895587577988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-34722581751118605092009-12-09T10:19:02.452-05:002009-12-09T10:19:02.452-05:00I'm back after a long time just lurking. Been...I'm back after a long time just lurking. Been very, very busy getting set up for more livestock and processing our harvest.<br /><br />I'm just wondering why people haven't been mentioning animals as part of their doomstead or wealth holding ideas? (Maybe some have and I've just missed it. Yes my love I saw your chickens and chicken-wire post!)<br /><br />Livestock can hold Spicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07108126069502359204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-21370433850898037542009-12-09T10:18:29.514-05:002009-12-09T10:18:29.514-05:00Another of those too-late ideas, but my pet favori...Another of those too-late ideas, but my pet favorite, is neighborhood area storage. Sort of a planned relocalization for renewables -- in each of those neighborhoods able to afford solar panels, a sodium-sulfur battery bank. The batteries would be maintenance headaches at the personal level, but a several MWh system could reliably serve a suburban neighborhood and minimize dependence on the grid.Jim Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17419179432204743768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-36028016503968592752009-12-09T10:09:35.966-05:002009-12-09T10:09:35.966-05:00Snuffy,
I agree about the need for such skills, a...Snuffy,<br /><br />I agree about the need for such skills, and I'm very happy for you that you have a great skill set. This will serve you and yours very well.<br /><br />Both biomass and biogas can be very useful (depending on location and the availability of inputs), and both can easily be done on a community scale. In fact this is probably the best possible scale to do them on. Although Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-39209751656783075902009-12-09T10:07:22.365-05:002009-12-09T10:07:22.365-05:00http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&am...http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aMNX721eB9Rk&pos=2<br /><br />Geithner Extends $700 Billion Bailout Program Until October<br /><br />Very Interesting...Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05716828239924827486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-75686421684686774242009-12-09T10:00:32.711-05:002009-12-09T10:00:32.711-05:00Lord Bacon,
That sort of eventuality is much more...Lord Bacon,<br /><br />That sort of eventuality is much more likely where there is in fact a significant amount of wealth to be controlled in that way. Russia did something similar, precisely because there was so much money under the nation's mattresses to be smoked out. Here people have virtually no cash savings. Those who have any savings at all tend to believe in the deposit guarantees, Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-19721357386907887332009-12-09T09:36:56.036-05:002009-12-09T09:36:56.036-05:00FB,
Now back to gold. Why would many different pe...FB,<br /><br /><i>Now back to gold. Why would many different people, in many different situations, need to sell their gold early in a deflation? Would not every effort be made precisely to draw out the process and avoid crashing the market? Are we not victims here of perceiving future events as crowding forward into the immediate future, when they could in fact be separated by years?</i><br /><brStoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11290752503843969632009-12-09T09:17:58.783-05:002009-12-09T09:17:58.783-05:00Re: Builders are aging
I couldn’t agree more tha...Re: Builders are aging <br /><br />I couldn’t agree more that we have a real shortage of people who actually know how things work. It is much bigger than motors and power grids (although both are true) – we have a significant portion of the population who don’t know how to take real food and turn it into something edible. There are a lot of people in the USA who if given a basket of vegetables FarmerAmberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04744733257061570682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-21306310148602087062009-12-09T08:14:11.294-05:002009-12-09T08:14:11.294-05:00So, I am thinking it may be a good idea to convert...<i>So, I am thinking it may be a good idea to convert the money into hard assets/land sooner rather than later, rather than risk losing it in a banking collapse ... But that means we may miss out on the lowest property prices (I think?)</i><br /><br />This is exactly our situation in Spain. Out of our 200K in savings and cashed out retirement funds, I´d like to spend about 50K on a property withCocohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01002346978289429622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-76925951228792562732009-12-09T07:40:00.210-05:002009-12-09T07:40:00.210-05:00Sevenleagueboots,
A refreshing departure from aca...Sevenleagueboots,<br /><br /><i>A refreshing departure from academic essays on Canada electrical grid.</i><br /><br />I mention the Ontario grid only because it is representative of problems across the continent. Grid capacity is limited almost everywhere. Also, Ontario's FIT program is being seen as the future for renewable generation elsewhere, giving cause for optimism that we can Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7580772992138829642009-12-09T07:39:42.883-05:002009-12-09T07:39:42.883-05:00Joseph J - Thanks for the link. I will take a look...Joseph J - Thanks for the link. I will take a look.<br /><br />Puffer - Interspersed within your comments were some viable ideas discussed here many times. Other comments you made were incomprehensible and seemingly at odds with themselves! <br /><br />L Bacon - Interesting, the WSJ using Pyongyang for their own manipulative purposes.Hombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52251188029583960662009-12-09T05:11:00.489-05:002009-12-09T05:11:00.489-05:00@ NZSanctuary
The community I was talking about w...@ NZSanctuary<br /><br />The community I was talking about was the Newtown/Berhampore area of Wellington ... <br /><br />Well, 'interesting and alternative community' was overstating it a bit! :) But certainly a strong alternative element - very creative place full of artists and musicians and crafters and activists and interesting entrepreneurs ... lots of community initiatives springingUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03745808529952879762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-67027492264194096102009-12-09T03:23:08.412-05:002009-12-09T03:23:08.412-05:00Hello,
Concerning the question of why gold would ...Hello,<br /><br />Concerning the question of why gold would bottom early in a deflation.<br /><br />@ El G<br /><br />I understand the points you make (people needing money fast and selling what sells), but wonder about a particular problem of perception that we may have.<br /><br />A few days ago, someone commented that from afar, successive mountain ranges, one 80 km distant and the next 120 kmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com