crynosys

The Senate is burning the weekend oil debating what they will
do with another trillion in tax dollars from the American public.

If your a good little "party member" they might allow you to visit
the doctor in 2014. Maybe. Don't get sick till then Comrade.


"I told you so just doesn't seem to cover it."

"There is no energy shortage, there is no energy crisis, there is a crisis of ignorance."
These words, spoken by Buckminster Fuller over 20 years ago, ring even more true today.

Take Solar Energy(PV) for example: It only produces power in direct sunlight. So what do you do for electricity
when the sun goes down? You used to have to charge up a truck load of batteries to keep the lights on at
night. Fairly reiently the utilities have been badagered into allowing folks to interconect with the
public utility grid and sell their excess PV power to the utilities for credit on their bill.
Very green and tree huggie right?
But wait, Isn't half the planet facing the Sun at All times?
How about we interconnect all the worlds power grids.
Solar power available 24/7.

But then what do we do with all the coal power plants?
We'll need somewhere to put the extra solar farms.

County song to the rescue again...

Frak Cap and Trade

The sun never sets on CPS energy...

Awesome wild flower honey Mead. The perfect introduction to Mead.
Not to sweet(as mead goes) and not dry at all.
The perfect companion for a Dr Who special.
I didn't know any comercial mead was produced so close.
We were enjoying the Free-tail Brewing Company and noticed it on the menu.
They didn't carry it any longer but a little web search when I got home revealed.
It is produced just outside of Fredericksburg, Tx
Bell Mountain Vineyards
http://www.bellmountainwine.com/oberhof.htm

How do we get health care insurance for the 13 to 17 Million uninsured
legal residents of the United States of America?

It's even easier than lowering the overall cost of health care.

Enact legislation that ensures a citizens right to purchase heath
insurance for companies based outside their state of residence.
It's just that easy.
Remove a little state political graft, and presto
13 million people can now afford personal health care.

No 2 TRILLION dollar social health care bureaucracy required.

Yes, people way smarter than I thought this up.

Next....

For about two years I've been researching how to insulate the outside of my
concrete house . I was just about to get prices for Mason Greenstar's
papercrete mortar mix when it finally dawned on me to go back further and
see what old ideas was reworked to come up with papercrete.
The progenitor is none other than lime/straw/clay adobe.
A couple of keywords later and I had found this site.
http://planetaryrenewal.org/ipr/insulation.html
A light clay/straw mix has the R-value I'm looking for without the embodied energy
cost associated with concrete. It's also dirt cheap..
So what's the catch? It takes forever to completly dry out and shrinks something
horrible when it does. Then I remember.
http://www.geoswan.com/
George Swanson's ancient recipe for a MgO/Straw/Clay breathing wall in-fill dries in hours
and doesn't shrink.

What's old and Still works is relearned.

The word democracy appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution -- two most fundamental documents of our nation. Instead of a democracy, the Constitution's Article IV, Section 4, guarantees "to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government."

So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said, "You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe." Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

Contrast the framers' vision of a republic with that of a democracy. In a democracy, the majority rules either directly or through its elected representatives. As in a monarchy, the law is whatever the government determines it to be. Laws do not represent reason. They represent POWER. The restraint is upon the individual instead of government. Unlike that envisioned under a republican form of government, rights are seen as privileges and permissions that are granted by government and can be rescinded by government.

"Democracy is the road to Socialism"

Karl Marx

“The goal of socialism is communism.”

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy=Socialism=Communism

This is probably of interest to only one person on my F-list...

I ran into Claudette Sumrall at The RoundUp and learned some sad news.
Amazon Gridwall has had to file chapter eleven.
The credit crunch claims another "better" idea.

Poof goes the foundation wall for my garage/workshop.

It seems that by virtue of a chest style deep freezer's
inherent efficiencies it can be operated as a super efficient Refrigerator.
This can be achieved by augmenting or modifying its thermostat.
Beer to the Rescue. Home-brewers have been using this trick for years.

pardon the nasty linkage
http://sanantoniosustainableliving.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-make-your-fridge-even-more.html

http://mtbest.net/chest_fridge.html

http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-beer/kegerator-conversion-kits-cid-785.html

This fall as a near perfect scenario of Appliance Stimulus Package Rebates, Weatherization Assistance Program Grants, State and Utility Rebates, and the Income Tax Credit all come together making this the right time to replace the inefficient water heater and save on your energy bill while cutting back on your carbon footprint and being Green.

These have actually been around for years, but you had to know were to look.
Then you had to retro-fit your existing water heater.

So what the hell is a heat pump water heater? Other than money in the bank?
Standard electric water heater element burns 4500 Watts.
A heat pump model uses 500 watts.

The New drop in replacements for electric water heaters:

http://www.geappliances.com/products/water/heat-pump-water-heater/

http://www.rheem.com/Products/tank_water_heaters/hpwh/hpwhhomeowner

http://www.stiebel-eltron-usa.com/accelera.html


Older retro-fit offerings


http://www.beyondpollution.com/products.htm

http://www.aers.com/etech_residential_water_heating.html

http://www.northrdt.com/

http://trevormartin.com/hwg_main.asp


The some of the retro-fit models can be used on gas water heaters also.
The airgenerate by beyondpolution is actually made in Houston.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Yes the numbers are real and rather conservative in a couple of places.
Yes our government IS spending twice as much money as it collects from us.

The president wants to know when to expect the check for your part of the National Debt?

This past week I got to drive a 2008 Prius for several days.
The technical complexity and resources necessary to produce the Prius
make it an ecological and economic loser.
Its production has twice the ecologically impact of a solely gasoline powered
automobile.
Economically it takes 5 years to offset the cars premium price with it's lower
gasoline consumption.

Now for the cool stuff:

The central display screen that shows you what the hybrid systems
are doing, in almost real-time, is totally geek cool.

The electric powered A/C system that runs off the battery pack is
awesome at stoplights where you need to feel superior to the folks
wasting gas while you sit in your stupid looking car.
yeah, I really am that Green geek...

It really does have room for 4 adult sized people.

It Has A Power Button!

For 10,000 dollars more you can add an adequate auxiliary battery pack and
a plug-in-charge capability.

Reality: If I could afford 35K for a car I'd be driving a lithium powered EV,
with little carbon footprint or need for foreign oil/wars.

Its seems that 8 inches of soil is as effective as R-30 worth of attic insulation.
Basically all you need is a swimming pool liner and half your back yard,
to keep your house cool in the summer.
A low or no pitch roof works best, but,
I've seen terraced green roofs on higher pitches.
Getting something to actually grow in the soil just adds to the benefits.

Info courtsey of John J. Moroney

The Problem: 80% of the cost of current health care stems
from the bureaucracy necessary to CYA in case of a lawsuit.

The Solution: Enact federal laws to limit that liability.
The cost of health care in now reduced by 40%.

Reasoning: Federal law requires hospitals to accept patients with
no regard for prior condition or ability to pay for services.

Obama's solution: Federally reduce the amount doctors and hospitals can
legally charge for services.
Basically cutting a doctors/hospitals earning by 40% or worse.

Result: Fewer hospitals staffed by fewer doctors.

Way to kill a series Russell T.

According to the presidents own admission.
Cap and Trade legislation will be a $3000 a year per household tax.

So what does our the Government propose to do with all of our money?

Install an array of space mirrors to deflect a sufficient amount of
solar radiation to counteract the effects of global warming.

Reseed the ocean's kelp beds to absorb the the excess carbon
dioxide humans produce.

Implement the US developed safe and clean nuclear reactor technology that has
been mothballed since 1986? You look it up. I've been pissed since the late 80's
over this government cock up.

Nope. Congress plans to give 85% of our Tax money to:
kick backs to large corporations(the polluters)
useless green technology pork programs
good old fashioned political payoffs(more pork)

So who thought up this environmentally useless money making scheme?
Why Enron Energy of course.

Which company stands to make windfall profits by issuing the carbon credits,
while brokering and regulating their trade.
Why GE Energy of course.


GE Energy formerly known as Enron Energy.

You can't con an honest man...

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

The Cap and Trade Tax Bill will be voted on Friday
The Tax bill which has grown to 1200 pages
proposes to give 85% of the tax revenue to special interests.

By the way, the "government approved" Green scientists agree
that the reduction in carbon emissions this bill proposes will amount
to an ant fart by 2030.

Government mandated $5 a gallon gas coming your way.

The Tea Party folks don't look like such Kooks, Do they?

I this a continuation or a re-telling?

The progressive/liberal/socialist's floated how they want to fund "healthcare reform".
They want us to pay for it with a 25% national sales tax.
So much for our Presidents promise only to raise tax's on the rich.

If today the US stoped using oil to power our transportation and magic rings could be fited to the smoke stacks of our powerstations we will still lose most of New York city to rising sea waters.

The earth doesn't need saving, We Do.