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My Thoughts on Bernanke, Boeing and Citibank

"Northwest Jet Suffers Similar Malfunctions to Air France Flight

[D]uring the brief but dramatic event, the Northwest Airbus A330's crew was left without reliable speed measurements for three minutes. In addition, the computer safeguards designed to keep the aircraft from flying dangerously too fast or too slow were also impaired. Like the Air France A330 jetliner, the Northwest plane entered a storm and quickly started showing erroneous and unreliable airspeed readings. ..."

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My Thoughts on Bernanke, Boeing and Citibank

My impression, with more reflection, is a no Boeing engineer would fail to report a potential problem because of fear job termination.

My Thoughts on Bernanke, Boeing and Citibank

"... the reason they kept coming up 7s and 11s on their previous commercial programs was that all were rather conservative forward moves from existing platforms."

I was coauthor with Pat Corey and ? of the 767 software certification policy document in 1980, a consultant to Boeing Commercial Aircraft Corporation..

I worked at Payne field in Everett, WA commuting by plane from Pullman, WA.

Corey was the project leader.

Corey and ? were experienced with the AWACS software.

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AWACS software apparently ran on a mainfram type computer.

The 767, if I recall correctly, had a large numbers of microcomputers [microntrollers] connected via an ARINC 429 bus.

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Cory was concerned about the software cost since AWACS software apparented costed-out to over $100 per line of code.

Number of lines of code in the 767 were very high and Corey was concerned that software costs migh cause Boeing financial trouble.

My view was that microcomputer/controller software can be very different from mainframe software in that micocontroller are frequently shorter and simpler to accomplish a required task.

Point is that my impression was that Boeing engineers are very conservative, careful, smart, SUPEREXPERIENCED so I am not suprised by delays in the 787.

Boeing and Sandia Labs labs made me job offers in 1980.

I went to Sandia because I thought the work would be more interesting. Right on.

Positioning for When Water Runs Out: Part II

"I believe the issue of drinkable water is merely an issue of ENERGY. There is plenty of water in nature. There is not enough clean fresh water available. Water purification consumes energy. With energy you can purify water. Without energy you can not purify water. So water crisis is related to energy crisis."

PNM electric load forecaster Steve Martin alerted us about new construction as the principal factor in increased electric load. See FOIL 1.

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Martin also alerted us to the electric consumption of the San Juan-Chama drinking water project. See FOIL 2.

We're monitoring relevant water articles.

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Iraqi Kurdistan: One of the World's Most Coveted Oil Fields

"Never the less, Khuzestan will become the next front in the war on terror and the lynchpin for prevailing in the global resource war."

"Rather, the goal is to destroy major weapons-sites, destabilize the regime, and occupy a sliver of land on the Iraqi border that contains 90% of Iran’s oil wealth."

"Not surprisingly, this was Saddam Hussein’s strategy in 1980 when he initiated hostilities against Iran in a war that would last for eight years. Saddam was an American client at the time, so it is likely that he got the green-light for the invasion from the Reagan White House."

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Mike Whitney may be wrong about the Reagan White House.

It may have been the Carter adminstration through Zbigniew Brzezinski.

We're in the process of trying to get our stolen $22,036.00 back from NCUA for filing criminal complaint affidavit against Brzezinski in New Mexico 97 CV 266.

China's Solar Market Heats Up

Solar electric money will be made.

"PNM spokeswoman Cathleen Garber said the photovoltaic programs help the company meet its state-mandated Renewable Portfolio Standards. PNM is required to generate 6 percent of its retail energy from renewable sources until 2011, when the percent requirement increases to 10 percent. It moves to 15 percent in 2015 and 20 percent in 2020. The standards also requires that wind and solar resources each account for at least 20 percent of the requirement, with non-wind and non-solar resources making up no less than 10 percent. "

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5 Energy Efficiency Stocks on My Clean Energy Shopping List

We continue to express concern that some of alt energy or clean energy ventures may ploys to attract investor money and, later, will fold.

"When jet maker Eclipse Aviation crashed and burned, shock waves rippled through dozens of local suppliers"

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"Bernalillo County will have to spend $4.5 million to acquire land for a proposed solar marufacturing site on the far West Side because developer SunCal Cos. couldn't meet deadlines for the project.

SunCal was supposed to acquire and donate the property for the proposed Solar Array Ventures Inc. operation in exchange for the county taking over the developer's obligation to build a waterline to the project.

Bernalillo County Manager Thaddeus Lucero said SunCal could not meet a Solar Array Ventures, or SAVe, timeline to acquire the land, forcing the county to take on both the land acquisition and water-line construction responsibilities at a cost of about $8.5 million."

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Predicting Oil and Gas Prices: 2009-2016

"All the destabilizing efforts will ignite the entire region where the shipping of US dependent oil must come from. "

Let's hope not.

We've been working toward peaceful settlement of these unfortunate matters.

And our peaceful settlement efforts recently cost us $22,036.00 which we are in the process of trying to get back.

Press on

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelects.
Peristence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Nuclear Power: Going Fast

"They'll probably look to Iran as their first customer"

Let's hope.

"MSM/corp gov keeps messing with Iran and us.

Let's all hope for peaceful settlement of these unfortunate matters.

To understand the hatred of the United States in Iran, we have to go further back than 1979 -- to 1953, when Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh had the gall to care more about his country than what the British and the United States wanted.

The two superpowers were angry that he nationalized oil interests -- at the time Anglo-Iranian Oil, now known as British Petroleum, was receiving 93 percent of oil proceeds and the Iranians were getting 7 percent.

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China's Solar Market Heats Up

Sunny Days Ahead For Solar Industry Growth

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first comment.

We're still trying to figure out if Fast Neutron is right or wrong.

Cap-and-Trade Datapoint of the Day

Coal lobby.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Barker, America's Power Army [mailto:sbarker@americ... Behalf Of Scott Barker, America's Power Army
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:00 AM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Climate Change Legislation: Update

Dear William:Last week I wrote you that you needed to act and urge your Member of Congress to add consumer protection to the climate change bill (you can still do that by using our Web site to send an e-mail.

Thanks, in part, to people just like you speaking out and asking for changes to the bill that will protect consumers from sky-rocketing energy prices, the momentum to rush the bill through before July 4 has slowed. That allows more time for legislators to consider important changes to the bill and that means consumers have more time to voice their opinions.

Here's the quick review on the legislation: Congress is working on climate change legislation to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The problem is that most everyone agrees that the bill will raise energy prices. America's Power Army is asking Congress to add consumer protections against higher energy prices. You can find out more by visiting our Web site. If you've already written and/or called – thank you!

If you haven't sent an e-mail to your Representative, now is the time to act. You can also use our "Send to a Friend" feature and ask your friends, family and colleagues to do the same.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Scott Barker
On behalf of America's Power Army

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The Geeks Shall Not Inherit the Earth

Edward Silverman Purdue math prof and PhD thesis commitee member taught me complex variable [Hille?], measure theory [Halmos], and real variable [Saks] in the 1960-63 time frame.

Silverman, a former Sandia labs staff member, sent me some questions about the seismic data authenticator an a yellow piece of paper.

Silverman later sent me a postcard from Telaviv.

Both were stored in a slot in my desk at Sandia labs spook shop.

On the basis of both Sandia labs concluded I was an Israeli spy.

Wrong.

Nor am I Iran operative.

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We simply want to get these unfortunate matters peacefully settled.

Including return of our $22,036.00 stolen from our retirement-protected Sandia Laboratories Federal Credit Union for filing a criminal genocide complaint affidavit against Zbigniew Brzezinaki New Mexico 97 cv 266 for inciting Saddam Hussein to attack Iran on 22 September 1980.

Okay?

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The Geeks Shall Not Inherit the Earth

God made the integers, all else is the work of man

This statement is attributed to the mathematician Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891), who insisted on the constructibility of mathematical objects. He believed that all mathematics could be reduced to arguments using only the integers and finite numbers of operations. He was violently opposed to such things as the use of irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, upper and lower limits, and the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem (well, much of the new mathematics being developed by Karl Weierstrass for that matter), as these devices he felt produced objects that did not exist. This extreme philosophical viewpoint on mathematics caused him to quarrel with many mathematicians, even going so far as to block publication of papers by Heinrich Heine (of the Heine-Borel theorem) on Fourier series and papers by Georg Cantor on transfinite numbers and set theory (not because he personally didn't like Cantor, as asserted by some of Cantor's biographers, but only because he was violently opposed to Cantor's ideas) in the influential Crelle's Journal. In 1889 Ferdinand von Lindemann produced a proof that π was transcendental, and Kronecker was said to have given von Lindemann the backhanded compliment: "Of what use is your beautiful proof, since it does not exist!"

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At Whitman college in 1958-1959 I studied the works of Georg Cantor [aleph null, one, ...] and at Purdue the other mathmaticians mentioned above

Then I went into computing!

For monetary reasons, of coure.

The Geeks Shall Not Inherit the Earth

Math models are only that. Models.

If the models don't accurately model what is, in fact, happening then trouble can occur.

Finite math is different.

Finite math is EXACT to the least significant bit.

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Otherwise, you may not be able to decrypt or authenticate ... or add/subtract/muliply/d... integers

Will Solar Energy See Organic Photovoltaics with Intel Inside?

We're still trying to determine whether

fast neutron
Santa Fe, NM
January 12, 2009

From actual experience, wind farms produce 1.2 watts per square meter. Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic methods capture 5 to 6 watts per square meter. There is no economy of size in either technology. Dividing the watts you need by those values gives the land area in square meters needed to produce the juice. The numbers are astronomical

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is correct or not.

No response yet

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Albuquerque Journal Monday June22, 2009

County Jumps In To Save Solar Deal

SunCal could,'t meet deadline for property acquisition