http://whorledview.com We leave our fingerprint on everything we touch. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:30:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We should be getting a nice fat tax rebate this year thanks to the economy being in the toilet. I should be grateful but I can't help but think that this tax rebate will have little effect on the economy while it balloons both inflation and the deficit. ... http://whorledview.com/2008/02/16/the-homeland-production-agency-an-idea-whos-time-has-come/ Now that the Republican party has practically let the mainstream media pick their candidate we can look forward to what their debates will be like:   Hillary: Repeal the Bush Tax cuts! McCain: I agree!   Hillary: Reward illegals with citizenship! McCain: I agree!   Hillary: Punish America alone for global warming! McCain: I agree!   Hillary: No conservative Judges ... http://whorledview.com/2008/02/04/mccain-debates-hillary-lovingly/ Probably one of the best layman articles on the subject from a contemporary perspective except for one major problem. Nevertheless it's worth a good read. Check it out: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan The problem: Once again it places more emphasis on Solar PV than Solar thermal. It pretends to justify this by throwing around ... http://whorledview.com/2008/01/24/49/ Most medical practitioners do not understand how the body utilizes high concentrations of ascorbates (Vitamin C and it's buffered variants). As a result clinical studies for Vitamin C are poorly designed and result in inadequate and misleading conclusions. Ultimately such misleading conclusions discourage medical practitioners from ... http://whorledview.com/2007/11/20/the-vitamin-c-dead-zone/ According to this CNN article released today Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) that harnesses the heat of the sun (not the brightness of the sun, which is what Solar PV does) just keeps looking better. Among the claims: Electricity produced by CSP can be as cheap as 8 cents per ... http://whorledview.com/2007/11/14/concentrated-solar-power-the-claims-just-keep-getting-better/ He won the popular vote for President of the United States. He jumped on the green energy bandwagon. For those two things I applaud him. Everything else he’s done reminds me what an incredible stroke of luck it was that he lost the electoral vote. I posted earlier about how awful ... http://whorledview.com/2007/11/12/al-gore-says-something-really-stupid-again/ The cost of Solar Thermal electricity is half the cost of Solar PV, and expected to be 1/4 of the cost of Solar PV within the next 10 years. This has been true for dozens of years, but producing solar thermal as a business has never been as lucrative ... http://whorledview.com/2007/11/12/solar-thermal-energy-to-overtake-solar-pv-energy-within-10-years/ The modern medical society has gotten into the nasty habit of disparaging nutriceuticals. Nutriceuticals are "nutritional supplements" that actually have therapeutic value (like pharmaceuticals). They comprise many vitamins when taken in large doses, and many herbs (only the nutritional ones though). Many herbs are not nutriceuticals ... http://whorledview.com/2007/10/25/south-american-nutriceuticals-are-changing-the-world/ The war on Terror costs money. Lots of it. It seems then that the best way to win the war on terror is to free up tons of money, making it available to the economy so the war on terror can be funded. Where to get such money? ... http://whorledview.com/2007/10/21/winning-the-war-on-terror-through-vitamin-c/ Today is "Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day" (not to be confused with the Israeli "Jerusalem Day" held in May) an Iranian-invented occasion to call for the wiping off of Israel from the Middle East map. In celebration of the day Mahmoud Ahbmadinejad, of course, has already spewed his nonsense that Israel's ... http://whorledview.com/2007/10/05/why-we-owe-israel-our-support/