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  Resonant Writer

  Say what you will. The Mustache knows how to write. Knows how to resonate with readers of the Mother Ship: The New York Times.

  So if the Mustache starts pumping up the patriotic pulse with his new tag line: Green is the new Red White & Blue, we should follow his cue and embrace it. Never mind all his other politcal follies. The Mustache has been to Peru. He has seen the receding glaciers as clearly as some of us see our receding hairlines. He gets it. So don't knock the Resonant Writer at the NYT when he comes bearing gifts. Accept them with open arms and say, "Thank You Mr. Friedman."On Good framing from Friedman posted 2 years, 6 months ago 27 Responses

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  Energy Flow charts for the Green Engineer

  Here is one:
  http://www.swans.com/library/dossiers/pics/enflow00.jpg

  Generally this google search worksOn A reintroduction posted 2 years, 6 months ago 22 Responses

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  Shown & Blown (Like Hot Air)

  It's also been "shown" that evolution ain't real and that the Lord Almighty created the Universe in 6 days, whereafter He Who Hath Infinite power got "tired" and had to "rest".

  The trouble with people like you is that you don't understand Malthus was right, just the timing was a bit off.On A reintroduction posted 2 years, 6 months ago 22 Responses

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  The Price of "Sweat"

  Once we start framing our discussions into ones that look at what forms of exploitable energy are "cheap"  and which are more "costly", we thrust ourselves through the Alice-in-Wonderland Mirror and fool ourselves into believing that the noises we alone make are actually true. Exactly how "cheap" is it to pursue an energy policy that dooms this planet to an early demise?

  Mother Nature does not perform her accounting according to the say so of a bunch of freakly mutated apes; the kind we call "accountants". She does not stop adding to the count of in-atmosphere GHG's just because our human accountants declare those to be "externalities". She does not stop requiring that the laws of energy conservation and entropy be obeyed.

  We humans have a serious mental disease. It's called believing our own bull shit.

  Any energy exploitation policy that continues to pump noxious and planet killing gases into the atmosphere is a very "costly" one. We are just too dumb to see how costly.On A reintroduction posted 2 years, 6 months ago 22 Responses

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  Good Talkings -- But Patently Corrupt Walkings

  Many of the politicians who greedly froth with green saliva from their vote chasing mouths are the same ones who are crushing Yankee ingenuity by destroying (Deforming) the American patent system.

  The myth is that only the Goliaths of Corpocratic America are capable of inventing our way out of the carbon combusting mess they got us into in the first place.

  The truth is that most of the truly innovative inventions come from individuals and small start ups. The Goliaths are running scared and are seeking to crush the upstarts. One way to do that is to kill the golden goose that begat American technological supremacy, the traditional American patent system. They are at it even as we speak, breaking the system apart piece by piece..

  The Goliaths shroud themselves under spin names like "Coalition" for Patent "Fairness". Their intent is to be anything but "fair". As the witches of Macbeth warned us: Fair is foul and Balanced is a spin meister's inversion of the truth. Beware the Ides of April Deform. Write to your Congressperson to protect the individual innovators of America. Don't look away as they get crushed by the K Street Goliaths.

  Who do you trust to come up with the innovations that will reverse our Corpocratic Way of Warming the Globe, David or Goliath? Solar energy or E85 Cornahol?On A reintroduction posted 2 years, 6 months ago 22 Responses