Month January 2008

Why greed is not good

While corporate earnings rose as much as 40% per year, wage increases for working Americans came to a pittance. Businesses “did not share” and this is a monumental mistake that corporate America is going to regret for decades to come.

Geothermal power. Iceland

Iceland heats 90% of their homes with geothermal energy. 80% of their power comes from hydro with the remainder from geothermal. It’s so cheap that they heat sidewalks in winter with it. While geothermal isn’t completely renewable, it is certainly…

Online images and photos

A few months back I started posting more images here as they make the blog look better and more readable. Here’s where I get most of the images for Polizeros. Commons.wikipedia.org has over 2 million “freely usable” media files. A…

No carnage

After big opening declines, the US markets have recovered much of the losses. This after Asia and Europe markets got clobbered Monday. We are in a bear market now, but no screaming death ride down for now.