What rules on laptop batteries? They do appear to be very high risk in for malefactors.

What’s the plan for Lithium batteries?

With a laptop battery one could blow a hole in the side of a plane with one, under the right simple circumstances.

A cell phone battery could cause a major fire.

A Combination of Control Theory & Chaos theory will give you answers.

Control theory involves a combination feedback and damping. Feedback can amplify or counter any trend. Damping is the amount of feedback, or its amplitude, in the system.

In a reserve banking system, Banks are required to a percentage of money in the fed. This is a form of damping. In addition there are various instruments that require different term investments and are not liquid.

The ratio of illiquid investments and liquidity also governs the amplitude of the feedback.

Investment are managed by a risk/reward ratio. Investment are made when greed overcomes fear, the more fear (of loss) the more caution investors become over the term of their investments.

In the current system, there is a great deal of liquidity, because the really good long term investments (infrastructure, schools, public health) are made by governments who are not looking for a one to three year return of 10 to 20%.

The current tax regime has shifted a great deal of money from Government Investment (and I don’t include the military in Government Investment) to the private sector, where is is more liquid and subject to risk of loss behavior.

In a Chaotic system, one with non-linear feedback, the result of feedback which amplifies an action (panic, bank runs and market busts) is inevitable because of the huge amount of liquidity look for safety and high returns (mutually incompatible) in all the wrong places.

Good analysis, and the solution requires (with increasing difficulty):

1. Obama to take the lead
2. The house and senate to agree
3. The money to unwind its bets on Austerity (loading up with “Gov Debt”)
4. The money to lose the hold on out politicians
5. Possibly election reform
6. Those who benefit from the current system to change it

And this will all happen when?

Before or after the current system crashes and burns? When the Vandal hordes invade Washington (I’d like to know where they are and how the get to DC)?

Hmm — I cannot discern the sharp, pointed remark that is accurately on target from you comment and skewers the unfortunate (idiot) who is the recipient.

Unless it’s the word “Good”… :-)

How would we notice?

The DoD does propaganda in the same manner it does wars, a TC ad would cost $1 Billion, and be incomprehensible.

We’d have large expensive weapons against non-existent enemies (F22s perhaps)?

We’d be persuaded to have enough weapons to extinguish life on earth several times over?

We can actually win a war of terror, with no clear definition of “win”?

Pick an answer:

1. Cindy did it
2. Living or comatose, there is no political difference
3. He’s being kept alive until Megan can inherit his seat
4. Sarah Palin did it

masaccio has some question suggestions

It is time to firepup-source there answers.

I’ll take on getting an answer from Boxer and Pelosi. I live in CA.

Which firepup will take on getting an answer from their own state from masaccio’s list?

Greece would need a rational tax system as well. One that actually collects taxes.

It was and is infallible. Those burned never experienced any more earthquakes.

Sterling Engines projects are full of promises and short on delivery. The damn things have too many seals and moving parts.

A small steam turbine has less parts but cannot be field maintained.

Cooking? Probably not.

Steam engine for electricity? Maintenance?

Boilers are easy. No moving parts. When one has to have machinery with moving parts the system becomes much more complex.

But…desalination? Has possibilities, have to handle the corrosion issues.

Because the current Billionaires are not invested in Solar. They a Koching on it.

This benefits the entrenched Oil, Electricity and Coal Industry. It’s got little to do with solar manufacturing in the US.

Key point is:

“The installers say that their industry is finally getting competitive with fossil fuels”

It has NOTHING to do with:

“a debate between US solar manufacturers and US solar installers”

Poor analysis of the winners and losers. Very poor.