Posted by
Andrews on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:17:16 PM
It figures, whenever I make a blanket statement events conspire to prove me a liar. Just as, for example, a few days after I mention apparent resistance at 9700 ("
Economic Resistance to Recovery") the Down closes near 9800 (cf. "
A Strange Wish"). Similarly, the day after I say I am going to write more ("
Brief Administrative Note"), I end up posting a single article.
Fear not, I was simply sidetracked by a morning medial appointment and an afternoon full of small tasks at work. I do have every intention of increasing the volume of my writing in the near future, I was simply a bit busier today than anticipated.
And now, because I have not learned my lesson, I am going to make another promise so I can fail to fulfill it. Either tonight or tomorrow, I plan to finally write the post I promised in "
Upcoming Posts", explaining how most "green" technologies end up much more less clean than anticipated. Be it the use of methanol in biodiesel, the environmental impact of the number of solar panels required by a "solar economy", the chemicals that go into photovoltaic cells and batteries, the mining required for the same, the chemicals that are used to produce ethanol, or the dirty processes used to produce "clean" electricity, there are tons of examples of the "green" label being a bit deceptive.And hopefully, tonight or tomorrow, I will elaborate upon that subject.
UPDATE
One other thing I hope to cover in writing sometime today or tomorrow. While for some time we have heard nominal conservatives calling for reforming the Republican party to no longer be "the party of no" and to stand for "something more than tax cuts", recent events seem to be proving them wrong. From tea parties to hecklers at town halls to Van Jones and ACORN, it appears both the left and these "reformers" of the right misjudged how far left America has moved. It seems, despite Obama's victory, that America is still largely a center-right nation. Maybe, just maybe, Obama won, not because America has moved left, but because he mobilized a lot of traditional non-voters among the young , the poor and minorities, while the right was lukewarm (at best) about McCain. But rather than write the whole post here, let me leave it at that, and promise to examine the implications of that discovery.