Reality-Based Engineering: 2008/05

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Great WaPo Article" The 'Mirage' Economy

That's a good way of explaining what we've had over the past 25 years and has accelerated exponentially since Bush & Greenspan we're in office at the same time...

Labels: economy, WaPo

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Powering Villages from Rice Husks

As the article put it, "Husk Power Systems ... uses a proprietary technology to gasify rice husks and generate three valuable products: electricity, waste ash that can be sold as an ingredient for cement and a reduction in carbon emissions." I like that they're counting carbon emissions reduction as a valuable product.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Someone Gets It: It's All About The Endowment

I've often said that my alma mater was a private, for-profit institution whose product is mating people with diplomas to get them to make money to get them to give back to said institution. This article via Atrios which provides a pretty similar comparison, using Harvard as an example, now that they have $42 BILLION in the kitty, all tax-free. That's *b*illion, people.

Labels: Atrios, colleges, economy, education, Harvard