The only time I ever drove the road to the top of Pikes Peak was back in the 1980s when the final miles were still gravel. Because the air ...

Week-end Wrap - June 23, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus The Supreme C...

I remember James Hansen's 1988 testimony in front of the Senate as if it were yesterday—has it really been 30 years? Hit me like a li...

While I was at the University of Minnesota, I had several neighbors from India—engineering and computer science majors (yes, there was a ti...

Week-end Wrap - June 16, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Sen. Sanders wr...

This version incorporates most of the suggestions I have gotten, mostly from Tony's Progressive caucus, Grandpa Smet and my favorite po...

If it seems like I have been remiss in my posts it is because I have been been putting all my energy into the creation of my climate change...

Week-end Wrap - June 9, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Billionaire fund...

For those of us who believe that energy is a primary need for survival, the collapse of oil prices since 2014 was quite frankly, surreal. H...

Week-end Wrap - June 2, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus “Here’s what bu...

How America Was Built: Alexander Hamilton versus Shareholder Value - HAWB December 1790 This past month I made a concerted effort to read ...

Because I am spending so much time on the subject of climate change these days, I am having trouble understanding the bigger picture at tim...

Tony sent me this link. He probably thought I needed help getting going. He understands the "value" I put on folks who spread pur...

It's getting hard to keep up. It required 146 years for the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere to go from 275 ppm to 290 (1750-1896)...

Michael Hudson has a new book coming out. It addresses the most fundamental economic question of the age—what to do about the unpayable deb...

In a recent post , I mentioned that there is a growing body of belief that it is now too late to save ourselves from the disaster that is c...

A couple of days ago, I saw my brother grinning broadly and occasionally giggling. The occasion for this mirth was a recent encounter with ...

When I first saw Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth I had two quite powerful reactions. I loved the excellent first half where he explain...

My last post had an embed video that was the second half of the video I have worked so hard on. That post was a mistake. But since Grandpa ...

3D printing of parts compared to CNC machining The American Society of Mechanical Engineers' magazine Machine Design  is offering a f...

Whoops. The post of this Youtube was a mistake. It was only a third draft. I was extremely tired when I got done and a foul-up uploading th...