Even if they are available for purchase it would help if someone would level the playing field. The ruling class and their corporations have centralized everything (monopolized). You need permission from the public utility commission for example to sell power from your waterwheel to a neighbor if it crosses a road. I think the law is unchanged in this. So utility generation on a microscale bounded by roads faces much less regulation. Current trends are higher prices and lower reliability. Sounds like a need to be filled.
Small water cooled diesels operated as cogen units offer much in cooler locations. The economic trick is needing heat. Last time I penciled it the power was about 5 cents per kwhour - and that was mostly amortising machinery
Fuel was 10% of the bill as I recall.
Kirk
Zeke Yewdall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Zeke Yewdall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree. My engineering degree may not get me a job (well, it did, but it was lousy pay, and in a cube), but it (along with alot of hands on experience) will aid immensly when I need to deal with the crazy world we are entering when services such as electricity, food, heat, water, etc, are not just available for purchase, but when we must find our own ways of getting them.
On 6/26/06, Michael Redler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Will,
I earned my B.S. in mechanical engineering technology in 1992 and worked as a mechanical design engineer for seven years. Frustrated by the lack of legitimate and rewarding work, I earned a BSEE in 2000 with the idea that you must apply theory to something which has no moving parts. The math and applied science has to stay in tact. That turned out to be partially true and I worked on analog circuit design and motor controls for another seven years.
Anyway, my advice to you is stay sharp, learn what you can and go for that degree (if that's your ambition) because eventually, the industries which were abandoned will need help in the coming recovery, one which (IMO) will last a generation.
...an optimists point of view of one of the most destructive and incompetent US administrations ever.
-Redler
Will Kelleher < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Maybe now isn't that best time to get an electrical engineering degree.... :-/
Will KOn 6/23/06, D. Mindock < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:The Death of US Engineering
By Paul Craig RobertsThe May payroll jobs report released June 2 by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics confirms the jobs pattern for the 21st century US economy:
employment growth is limited to domestic services.
In May the economy created only 67,000 private sector jobs. Job
estimates for the previous two months were reduced by 37,000.
The new jobs are as follows: professional and business services, 27,000;
education and health services, 41,000; waitresses and bartenders,
10,000. Manufacturing lost 14,000 jobs.
Total hours worked in the private sector declined in May.
Manufacturing hours worked are 6.6 percent less than when the recovery
began four and one-half years ago.
American economists and policymakers are in denial about the effect of
jobs offshoring on US employment. Corporate lobbyists have purchased
fraudulent studies from economists that claim offshoring results in more
US employment rather than less. The same lobbyists have spread
disinformation that the US does not graduate enough engineers and that
they must import foreigners on work visas.[snip]
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