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Wind Power Comes Of Age
According to the latest edition of Sierra Magazine (Mar/Apr 2013), wind power has finally made significant progress in the US energy mix. Up to the year 2000, total US wind power output had stayed...
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Back to Banking Basics
The two biggest economic disasters in this generation are caused by a banking crisis — the Great Depression of 1930s, and the current Great Recession since 2008. Although still recovering from the...
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Securitize Housing To Bubble
This essay is about how the securitization of mortgage loans by the big banks created the US housing bubble. The bubble eventually burst in 2008, and precipitated a worldwide recession. Of all the...
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The Wisdom of Recycling
Recycling is a basic function of the universe although we may not be aware of it. Examples are the circular movements of the planets, life and death, day and night, and the change of season and...
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Solar and Wind Together
Solar and wind now stand out as two major alternative energy sources although their shares in the total energy mix are still small. They continue to attract consumers because they harness the free and...
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The Carbon in our Life
All matters are made up of basic natural elements. They are masterfully presented in the Periodic Table whose current listing shows 118 elements, with more to be added after being discovered. Some of...
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The Oil Curse
The oil curse is a phrase probably invented by Westerners when they talk disparagingly about the oil-exporting countries of OPEC, which have kept oil prices high since 1973. Little do they know that...
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Overcoming the Oil Curse
The oil curse I’ve described in my previous essay is man-made. We are simply reluctant to kick the oil habit even though we already have the new technologies to do so. This reluctance varies between...
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Buddhism’s Inner Peace
My mother was a Buddhist. I watched her pray and often prayed with her when I was a boy. Like other Buddhists, she used to worship at home in a private corner where she kept a small statue of Buddha...
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The Automobile Culture
The automobile is an invention that has greatly changed our lives in just one century. It has also become an integral part of modern-day society. We are deeply entrenched in the automobile culture as...
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The Population Bomb
Around the 1800’s, a British scholar named Robert Malthus brought attention to the dangers of famine and disease due to overpopulation. In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich published “The Population Bomb”...
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The New Inflation
Inflation is a debilitating force that can ruin the whole economy because of the uncertainties it brings. Inflation can easily turn into a vicious upward spiral because everybody expects and behaves as...
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The Energy Story
Let me tell you a story about energy Without which all things remain stationary. Where does the ultimate energy come from? The Big Bang, says scientific theory. But where does the Big Bang come from?...
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Marching with the Young
A generational conflict exists About ideas and attitudes that shouldn’t persist The old fail to understand, say the young, Yet do they understand their own young? The point is everybody should not stop...
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The Conservative Dilemma (II)
The Conservative Dilemma (II) As the conservative pendulum swings away Many ideas emerge to save the day. The simplistic ideas of the past did not work. A recently published article may find its worth...
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Humans and Animals
We inherited Toby when our son went to college eight years ago. One day, Toby suddenly did not eat and play. I could feel two large lumps under his belly. He began to develop hairless spots all over...
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Indivividual Citizen Rights
An international drama has been created through the leaking of intelligence information by Edward Snowden, a contract employee of the US National Security Agency. This incident should give us an...
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Democracy is Messy
The recent dissolution of the Morsi government by the military presents many questions whether democracy can really work in an ancient country like Egypt. The situation is a mess no doubt. However, the...
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The Limits of Language
Language is one of the many gifts that distinguishes humans from other animals. A dog may speak to another dog in a subtle way, but their language does not have a distinctly complex sound, not to...
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Manufacturing in 3D
Do you want to make your own product at home without buying it from a store? 3D printing is gradually making it a reality. Three-dimensional printing (3D) is most useful in product design employing...
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