When what is happening in your world doesn't make sense, when it doesn't conform to your beliefs about how things should work, it's time to ask hard questions.
I'm hold up in Georgetown, CO, in the heart of the Rockies. This gigantic storm overtook me last night as I was crossing from Kansas to Colorado. As it darkened I decided to pull into the first motel and wait for morning to get on the move again. We...
It is hard to believe, but my time at SUNY-ESF is coming to an end.
I've said before that this has been one of the most intellectually stimulating experiences of my life. Charlie Hall is a powerhouse in the field of energy and the economy. He is...
In my never ending quest to ferret out the meaning of economics and how energy flow plays a role, I came up with this brilliant way to look at things. OK, you can decide just how brilliant, if at all. But it helps me!
My recent efforts to model...
My own approach to this holiday is to, indeed, remember how thankful to the Universe and evolution for creating the conditions under which I came to exist and might have come to glimmer just a bit of how things work. Mostly I think I am thankful to...
Recall Bill Clinton's famous rejoinder to George Bush the Elder? "It's the economy, stupid". Well, it is the economy, but the economy is based on net energy flow for the production of all things important to human existence*.
A few blogs back I wrote...
