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Maps of Industrial Heartland Loss of US Manufacturing Type Jobs
Sunday, October 31 @ 18:12:32 CST by myoung (42 reads) | | Animated maps and graphics chronicle the collapse of the physical economy of the United States, underway since the early 1970s and plunging into Depression today.
Science of physical economy which was once called the American System of Political Economy. Not price or inflation statistics, not the value of "markets," but the underlying physical conditions of economic infrastructure, technological production, and the labor force, show the real state of the economy.
U.S. infrastructure: transportation; power; water supply and management; hospitals and healthcare; ports and navigation; and more;
Deindustrialization and loss of productive jobs: steel; aluminum; machine tools; metals production; chemicals production; agriculture; petrochemicals production;
Impoverishment of the American population, and depopulation of the cities;
Regional physical-economy studies: Ohio and Pennsylvania; Michigan; the Northwest; the Southwest border states; city studies; and more. ...............
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Rebuilding the World Economy
Thursday, October 07 @ 20:47:57 CDT by myoung (75 reads) | | © Copyright Schiller Institute
The United States is gripped presently, by the ongoing, accelerating economic collapse, of a failed international monetary-financial system, and the bankruptcy, in fact, of many U.S. Federal states. The Federal government, if it were a Federal state, would be bankrupt. Because the Federal government has a credit-creating capacity, it is not bankrupt, but if it did not have a credit-creating capacity, it would be bankrupt.
The U.S. economy, overall, under present financial conditions, is hopelessly bankrupt—our banking system, the Federal Reserve System. And also, a similar situation exists in Western Europe and Japan.
Therefore, we have to face this now. People don't wish to face it. ................
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Drinking Fresh Seawater: Case Histories: What Israel Needs
Thursday, October 07 @ 19:53:54 CDT by myoung (33 reads) | | Savannah, GA -- TSG Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of TSG Water Resources, Inc., has completed the design, construction, and commissioning of a 1.25 million gallon per day seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant on the island of St. Kitts under a design-build agreement with the DeZen group based in Toronto, Canada. The plant provides both potable and irrigation water for the Marriott St. Kitts Royal Beach Resort and Spa, a 648 room hotel with an 18 hole golf course. The plant has been initially fitted with four trains of 250,000 gallon per day each for a total capacity of 1,000,000 gallons per day. The plant is designed so that a fifth train may be added to bring the total capacity to 1.25 million gallons per day.
Seawater Desalination ................
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European Productive Triangle:
Thursday, October 07 @ 19:31:38 CDT by myoung (31 reads) | | THE PRODUCTIVE TRIANGLE PROJECT
by Ralf Schauerhammer, Fusion Energy Foundation, Germany
Printed in the American Almanac
The concept of the ``Productive Triangle'' was published at the end of 1989. The essential features of this report have in the meantime appeared in every major language, and been circulated among specialists. Before I present a summary of the essential points of the concept of the Productive Triangle, I would like to present the cornerstones on which this concept is constructed, since that is the only way to understand why this concept has been, through the present day, the only realistic and practically realizable proposal for the future of Europe.
I would also like to do that because various proposals that have taken up parts of the Productive Triangle--the proposal of Deutsche Bank chief economist Norbert Walter; or the proposal of the Thuringian prime minister, Joseph Duchac--show that the authors have not taken these conceptual cornerstones seriously enough, or have not sufficiently understood them.
These cornerstones are:
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Born & Raised in the Sewers: Romania
Sunday, September 19 @ 16:22:27 CDT by kokko (57 reads) | | Born in the sewers
By Michael Leidig
Daniel Mutica was putting up posters over his bed last week. Once the tattered images of rock bands were securely pinned, he pulled back a thin cotton sheet, and climbed into his bed to sleep. Like many youngsters he is a music fan, but for Daniel there is a difference - the rock posters, along with his bed, are 20 feet below ground, in a section of Bucharest sewer.
He is not alone. All over Romania, hundreds of sewer children live in the country's network of tunnels. Most of them are descendants of children who were first discovered in the sewers when Communism collapsed more than a decade ago............
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CHINA: The Most Fascinating Power Plant Reactor in the World
Saturday, September 18 @ 16:41:51 CDT by myoung (128 reads) | | Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom
By Spencer Reiss
Wired Magazine
Explosive growth has made the People's Republic of China the most power-hungry nation on earth. Get ready for the mass-produced, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy.
China is staring at the dark side of double-digit growth. Blackouts roll and factory lights flicker, the grid sucked dry by a decade of breakneck industrialization. Oil and natural gas are running low, and belching power plants are burning through coal faster than creaky old railroads can deliver it. Global warming? The most populous nation on earth ranks number two in the world - at least the Kyoto treaty isn't binding in developing countries. Air pollution? The World Bank says the People's Republic is home to 16 of the planet's 20 worst cities. Wind, solar, biomass - the country is grasping at every energy alternative within reach, even flooding a million people out of their ancestral homes with the world's biggest hydroelectric project. Meanwhile, the government's plan for holding onto power boils down to a car for every bicycle and air-conditioning for a billion-odd potential dissidents.
What's an energy-starved autocracy to do?
Go nuclear.
(excerpts from 4 page article)
While the West frets about how to keep its sushi cool, hot tubs warm, and Hummers humming without poisoning the planet, the cold-eyed bureaucrats running the People's Republic of China have launched a nuclear binge right out of That '70s Show. Late last year, China announced plans to build 30 new reactors - enough to generate twice the capacity of the gargantuan Three Gorges Dam - by 2020. And even that won't be enough. The Future of Nuclear Power, a 2003 study by a blue-ribbon commission headed by former CIA director John Deutch, concludes that by 2050 the PRC could require the equivalent of 200 full-scale nuke plants. A team of Chinese scientists advising the Beijing leadership puts the figure even higher: 300 gigawatts of nuclear output, not much less than the 350 gigawatts produced worldwide today.
To meet that growing demand, China's leaders are pursuing two strategies......
building a new nuclear power facility that promises to be a better way to harness the atom: a pebble-bed reactor. A reactor small enough to be assembled from mass-produced parts and cheap enough for customers without billion-dollar bank accounts. A reactor whose safety is a matter of physics, not operator skill or reinforced concrete. And, for a bona fide fairy-tale ending, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is labeled hydrogen.............
instead of skyrocketing into a bad movie plot, the core temperature climbs to only about 1,600 degrees Celsius - comfortably below the balls' 2,000-plus-degree melting point - and then falls. This temperature ceiling makes HTR-10 what engineers privately call walk-away safe. As in, you can walk away from any situation and go have a pizza............
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Bankruptcy: The Real Story; EMPLOYEES
Thursday, September 16 @ 00:56:16 CDT by myoung (43 reads) | |
Bankruptcy: The Real Story
Robert B. Reich, 8-15, 2004
When a corporation files for bankruptcy, its employees are low priority when it comes to fulfilling promises—like paying pension contributions. The financial creditors who have a stake in the company are much more of a concern for ailing companies like U.S. Airways. But it shouldn't be that way. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich proposes a new type of "severance pay" program .............
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Ancient Canals Crisscrossing Egypt While Moses was Alive
Sunday, August 22 @ 16:58:52 CDT by myoung (119 reads) | | The first major shipping canal was constructed under Pepi I (6th Dynasty), when the rocks of the first cataract were pierced. This helped the Egyptian army to extend their hold on Nubia, from where raids had been conducted against Upper Egypt. The canal was also of economic significance, enabling the transport of blocks of granite and obelisks downriver on sizable ships. The canal had a length of 90 metres, was ten metres wide and nine metres deep, carved through granite.
Senusret III (12th dynasty) ordered the excavation of a 75 metre long canal at the first cataract which had to be repaired eight years later.
The easternmost of the seven arms of the Nile used to flow into the Red Sea, east through the depression of Wadi Tumilat into the area taken up nowadays by the Bitter Lakes and from there south to the Red Sea. This gave the early Egyptians a direct naval link to East Africa, Arabia and possibly even India. The Tumilat canal seems to have become repeatedly obstructed and reconnected.
The first documents concerning a direct link between the Nile and the Red Sea date to the late Old Kingdom. It appears that by the time of Pepi II the northern part of this waterway was not navigable anymore. Dismantled ships were transported to the Bitter Lakes and rebuilt. By the Middle Kingdom the southern part of this route had become blocked too, and under Mentuhotep III Punt had to be reached through Wadi Hammamat. The Tumilat canal was possibly restored during the 12th dynasty and was seemingly navigable during the reigns of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III who made intensive use of their navy for both economic and military ventures...........
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World's 7 Dangerous Shipping Lane Chokepoints
Sunday, August 22 @ 16:48:32 CDT by myoung (98 reads) | | World Oil Transit Chokepoints
The following presents information on major world oil transit centers. Over 35 million barrels per day (bbl/d) pass through the relatively narrow shipping lanes and pipelines discussed below. These routes are known as chokepoints due to their potential for closure. Disruption of oil flows through any of these export routes could have a significant impact on world oil prices.
The information in this report is the best available as of March 2004 and is subject to change.
GENERAL BACKGROUND
Given the fact that oil consumption occurs mainly in the industrialized West, while oil production takes place largely in the Middle East, former Soviet Union, West Africa, and South America, a significant volume of oil is traded internationally. This oil is moved mainly by two methods: oil tanker ships and oil pipelines. About 2/3 of the world’s oil trade (both crude oils and refined products) moves by tanker. About 43 million barrels per day of that trade is crude oil. Tankers have made global (intercontinental) transport of oil possible; they are low cost, efficient, and extremely flexible.
Oil transported by sea generally follows a fixed set of maritime routes. Along the way, tankers encounter several geographic "chokepoints," or narrow channels, such as ...........
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Denmark: New Bridge Linking Europe to Denmark
Sunday, August 15 @ 18:33:44 CDT by myoung (61 reads) | | So God created man in his own image.....
and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and SUBDUE IT (with bridges, dams, soil conservation, dikes, tunnels, canals, roads, railways, airports, seaports, aqueducts, water irrigation projects, water purification "sewer" projects etc.): and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1
GREAT BELT FIXED LINK RAIL AND ROAD PROJECT, DENMARK
The Great Belt Fixed Link rail and road project, which provides the first physical link between Denmark and Sweden, is amongst the largest ever undertaken in Scandinavia. By mid-2003, some 34 million journeys had been recorded, increasing north-south journeys by 77%, and commuter business 15-fold......
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Mag-Lev from Paris to Beijing: New Eurasian Land-Bridge
Sunday, August 15 @ 18:12:47 CDT by myoung (60 reads) | | By Jonathan Tennenbaum
The major nations of the world now face a branching point in history. Some powerful Anglo-American and Israeli factions are seeking to trigger a religious war which can spread throughout the southern regions of Eurasia. At the same time, leaders and planners in many nations are moving toward a common project of building new "Eurasian Land-Bridges," corridors of transport and other new economic infrastructure from Atlantic to Pacific and Indian Oceans.
The totality of the corridors, with their numerous branches, forms a unified network, providing the foundation for the development of a gigantic economic area of about 4 billion human beings. Over the last three years, in the area of these five main corridors, numerous large-scale transport, energy, and water projects have been launched; numerous additional ones are planned. The infrastructural development of Eurasia is like a gigantic locomotive picking up steam: It moved slowly at the beginning, but ...........
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