Quick update just to fill the airways. I am moving again. Time and energy are scarce at this time. I wanted to make sure you know I am still here and we will be back to full speed soon. Also I break the ice on why I am giving it all away, right away. More on this later on.
In regard to the Genetry Solar update - I am simply changing from revision A to revision C with some precautionary updates. https://genetrysolar.com
So sorry about the sound levels. Part of the reason I am moving away from Cheyenne, Wyoming is the cold. It is quite cold here. So, I had the heater running. I thought maybe it would distort the sound quality, but did not anticipate it would be this bad. Also the sound cuts out here and there, I have no idea why. Might be a connection problem where I am in the basement. I’ll address this also if I do more live streams.
ELECTRIC SHOCK, INJURY, PROPERTY DAMAGE, OR DEATH! ALWAYS SEEK AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER WHO IS QUALIFIED IN DISCHARGING ELECTRICITY BEFORE PROCEEDING!!! HUGE CAPACITORS INSIDE!
I don’t often cite other countries in referencing my own, but I do keep my ear to the ground. I’m an economist by schooling, so I do know a thing or two about the subject, though ardent reader of mine would attest I do not invoke appeal to authority fallacy lightly.
Service economies don’t work. When you don’t have a product, it’s well that you want to help people, but if you haven’t asked “who’s paying for it?” you just might have taken slightly less time than was necessary to fully comprehend the odds and the ends, the buttons and string, after all, are not free.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, hadn’t you heard that before? Just pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, what about that one?
And how many hands in the cookie jar? Public sector workers, too. When flush with cash it’s well, but when feast shifts to famine that ecosystem an oasis shifts the sands of time from tropical paradise to mirage.
Sucked dry, also, by the corporate stipend - a public-private trap and the mouse was the little man. Is it any wonder every town looks the same now; or that monopolies on every widget from steering wheel to breaker box or lamp or appliance, all impossible to make without cutting through too much red tape and out of fear they must also choose to eliminate those pretty dandelion “weeds”. RIP Genetry Solar.
Here lies the grave of prosperity.
As I had said I am an economist, didnt you know the private sector was most efficient and sustaining? Common knowledge, to the field. They didn’t teach this in your school?
When I couch-surfed England circa 2011 I couldn’t believe it that pancakes were pennies and the gal who would host me, her semi-estranged dad in the parliament or some such, herself on the dole, and nobody minded her young life as chosen was common there.
She went to the office, she proved herself trying to work by filling out a form, her provisions for needs and wants and fun were all met for the week, she was off.
I remember the combo washing machine and dryer in her flat. Extremely efficient, I’d never seen a front loader single basket loads before. My engineer mind was spinning. Quiet, humble in size, single phase @230V it silently gurgled in the living room carefully arranged utility to the maximum, enough clothes for one day and not much more. Pop your load in and out came the dry and de-wrinkled laundry, well mostly dry.
I know now why those machines aren’t liked here in America. You have to do your laundry every day, it just doesn’t work for large families. Electricity is cheap here, or was before the slow creep from then to now, before the corruption’s mortar had set.
And mold, as it turns out, begins to set in through the front. No, the top loader is much better for our needs - a week’s worth of laundry in the bin, set it, come back in an hour to move the load over, and you’ve got a process. A process to process a month’s worth of laundry in much the same time as two day’s, if that’s your fancy. It used to be you could get second-hand clothes for cheap too when at the thrift, now not anymore, take my word for it if you’re not a frequent shopper. Corruption runs deep.
Then when I visited communist Cuba, a fervent believer in systematized welfare when I arrived, an Adam Smith ‘Wealth of Nations’ was borne when I returned home sweet home. I grew to hate pork at every meal or chips substituted for French fries due to shortages, the bait and switch was cultural there. Now the mold here.
The necessary first responder, my experience working the river and seeing fresh death’s poignant pungency or lassoing active swimmer’s laceration and managing pools scattered over the last decade or so had me knowing precisely what to do.
A gal had been hit by a car on her bike. The sound of the dull thud of her body cracking far and wide against the old 40’s era car, cars which had no crumple zone, and she was down on the pavement you could fry on egg on, her classic bike and rigid frame mangled and destroyed.
Emergency Josef took over, he always knows what to do. I rushed up, I yelled at her not to move, to stay down and hold still. Nobody else, simply put, had a clue. She didn’t speak English, my Spanish was ok. It’s funny how good my Spanish has been over the years in emergencies, such as this.
The ambulance arrived. The back door was smashed in from a prior accident, they couldn’t get it open. I told them to stop wasting time and to try the side door. Another ambulance did eventually arrive.
Somebody came and gave me water. I gulped it down. I collapsed to the ground and I sobbed of her. I hope she made it out the other side of processing, whole. God bless.
In that heat of moment I drank it and forgot for the moment that you can’t drink the water. Service economies don’t work, by design. It’s by design. I’ll tell you again, it’s by design. Are you paying attention? It’s by design.
But until you’ve seen it for yourself, which you cannot possibly do unless you choose to, you were a frog in the boiling water when the receipt from the ambulance comes due, and there’s nobody who can afford it, not you, not me, not the owner of the ambulance, it just doesn’t work. Would you believe it, we are at a crossroads, we have a choice to make, do we run towards the end result of the service economy, or do we produce more than we consume? Choose one.
Cool cars in Cuba, it is true. But what nobody told you is the old engines are all gone now. Replaced, as it turns out, by imports. Modern probably refurbished engines, ancient chassis. Good that they repair and not replace, bad that their convertibles didn’t convert so efficiently.
