I see an economic diasater coming...

[triffid]

Its another story of who knew the man was a millionaire?  http://news.yahoo.com/man-lived-modestly-leaves-millions-surprise-donations-135358404.html

(AP) — A Vermont man who sometimes held his coat together with safety pins and had a long-time habit of foraging for firewood also had a knack for picking stocks — a talent that became public after his death when he bequeathed $6 million to his local library and hospital.
The investments made by Ronald Read, a former gas station employee and janitor who died in June at age 92, "grew substantially" over the years, said his attorney Laurie Rowell.
Read, who was known for his flannel shirt and baseball cap, gave no hint of the size of his fortune.

[triffid]

A new way of men and forests living together is beginning to emerge.
http://www.iisd.org/natres/agriculture/capital.asp   Its called "Natural Capital".

[triffid]

The feds are still not raising interest rates.When they do I expect a lot of economic things to go south,south,south.No matter poor people have always figured out how to make the system work for them.We talked this morning at the breakfast table (at Mc Donalds) how some  people go to jail to survive these cold mornings(cold winters).It was 1 degree this morning in St.louis.Three meals a day,a roof over their heads for 30 or 90 days.Warmer inside the jail than outside the jail.triffid

[the_big_m_in_ok]

Hey, triffid and all...

I'm really sold, by myself, that a real easy way to gain more power from an inverter is to connect the output to a wire loop.   Then set another loop the same size or bigger (or a hundred) next to it and parallel to it and let mutual induction do the trick.   The A/C output from the coil(s) can be rectified by diode(s) and led over to a battery set(s) to charge those (a lot of them, even) and spend the power of ONLY one inverter.
      The thing might be, however:
Will these many batteries load down the first inverter that supplies them all?

--Lee

[triffid]

Im reading a book by Peter Farb who has some insights on how human civilization came to be
going back 80,000 years.Though some of his books were written in the 1970s.The path to being human is full of details that stay true to 2015.I feel very lucky to even find this author.triffid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Farb   I am reading his book"Humankind"cc 1978.

He died in 1980.

He came up with a paradox: "Intensification of production to feed an increased population leads to a still greater increase in population."