Upcoming ideas…

I’ve been thinking about the coming green economy. I have a friend who is very much involved in the expected growth of the green economy. Our conversations are sporadic, and pretty much died after I wanted to discuss the defensibility of solar and wind power. I’m also perpetually concerned about the use-or-lose nature of the current energy grid. Regardless of efficiency on the production side, the simple fact that if it isn’t consumed, it is discharged at the end of the line, means the efficiency is always a fluctuating number.

I’m also thinking about the ethics of the bailout which is ever popping its head up in all of its $350 billion massiveness. It is an interesting situation wherein the very people who want a free market are asking (or demanding) bailout money which is a merging of taxation, devaluation of the dollar, and Fed production of cash. The US economy is a power entity, the US is self-sufficient as long as the infrastructure is in place, but we’ve closed our manufacturing facilities and offshored them which means massive amounts of scale to the economy have left and caused growth in foreign countries completely at the exepense of the US economy and the current unemployment of nearly 8 percent.

I’m off to do some research and work out what I need to do for this coming semester… about 10 days before I’m back in the saddle.