Month: August 2011

It is no problem if the financial industry in the US faces demolition. It adds nothing to the real economy, it has grown to insane proportions due to the oil/credit system in which credit was created in order to purchase oil for domestic or foreign use, and hauling the products to the states.

Great shape to be in when starting to join second industrial (renewable) era

The producers should be shielded from the effects ot any bank failure. Especially those that are actually basic necessities for americans. It is the entanglement between real economic interests and financial interests that could be easily severed without any negative effects,except for the banks. The painfull truth is that fossiel fuel supply is controlled by the relationship between Wahington, Wallstreet and the Pentagon. Thier strategy is to keep going, like a marathon runner that lost it’s way. It means in the end the runner drops dead without having achieved anything.

Labour participation, ‘jobs’, have been a predictable victim of fossiel fuuel based automation and mechanization of manufacturing. The most essential activities require less and less work, so that people have less and less money to spend on stuff, and the population will ultimately be jobless and poor. This shows the economic framework has a fundamental flaw, which was nice to exploit for a while, but now makes it impossible for many people to get a fair share of the wealth, which considering their jobs have been made redundant, should be handed to them for free.

The desire to make every drop of oil go the longest and to create a vibrant society with lots of wealthy people has made it so that greed in the financial sector serves to increase ‘fuel efficiency’ per capita. But as the glut runs to an end this management turns malign, because as long as people blame themselves for not having income they can be eliminated and the fossil fuel carnaval (and eco-carnage) can continue for a bit longer. The party poopers what to keep gorging and drinking, even if it is on the flesh and blood of the other guests.

The right answer to this is to create a new financial structure that will be independent of the current one. This one will a renewable energy/credit system that assigns renewable energy resources to industry. Any fossil reserves that are under sovereign control of the US should be used to create as much renewable energy production capacity as possible, and all this capacity should be under the control of the renewable energy bank, so that credit can be extended for it’s use.

Renewable energy credit is different (corrected) from oil/credit because it does NOT presist in the accounts of the energy supplier. The problem of spend oil/credit is currently solved by putting money in accounts with interest, but fiat currency is not meant to be stored or saved, and energy/credit gives the right to use energy, not the right to own it.

There will be no payment for the fossil resources. The oil/credit system has to die. Best thing to do is to abolish it in a legal move, oil, gas, coal can (in the interim) only be used for essential activities and creation renewable energy sources. The workers can be paid in renewable credits.

This is how the ‘Second Industrial Age’ will start. It will be an age in which we have industry replacing labour, but not creating poverty. An industry that does not make all money flow to the private energy providers, making it impossible to escape the lobby and influence of greed which gradually corrupts all only to increaingly serve a mindess machine. Right now humans are asked to compete with robots, an obvious losing proposition.

Let the runner collase. In reality the US debt has junk status. It’s debt represents burned oil, it can not be repaid. The money was loaned into existence based on an asset that was incinerated. How is the debtor going to repay? Modern consumers are by definition incapable of returning the favor, they consume, they are the destructors at the end of the oil/credit powered automatic production lines. So the US debt is meaningless, and the power to extort by the ‘systemic’ banks is nothing more than an attempt to keep the oil/credit system going using the misunderstanding of those that separate money and oil in our unaknowledged robo-economy.

Solar One went to the stock market recently. I had my doubts about it. The stock market in the US is under control of banks that are dead set against renewables, companies like JP Morgan. Stock price manipulation is baked into the cake due to the existence of high frequency trading algorithms. These are computers that ‘flash’ prices on a millisecond timeframe without buying or selling, thus creating the illusion that there is demand, or that people are dumping a stock. More than 70% of stock market transactions are now algotithmic. Banks earn a lot (Goldman Sachs steals $100 mln each day). Who wants to be listed in such an environment? How is it going to treat a manufacturer of ownable energy sources (outsifde the fossiel fuel stream control)  

"The markets did not like First Solar’s earnings news one bit. It’s not as if the solar sector as a whole is being celebrated by the stock market, but First Solar got taken down a notch after announcing its second-quarter results. "

The market is more than 70% banks. The banks depend on fossil fuel dominance so they can invest in expensive exploration (read create money to buy assets based on future revenues). They don’t want solar power plants or PV manufacturers. Except when they own them maybe. If you like renewables then forget financials. The financial system is not capable of driving renewables. It does not want to, except in rare cases, like the $105 for PV investment loans Citi decided to grant. Besides, who is making life hard for PV with bloom boxes and shale gas and tar sands..Those are listed companies with a lot more capital. Besides, if you take a stock down you can earn on shorts. For the stock market a company is like a racehorse. It’s fun to race and when the mood swings it can be pretty tasty to take it apart. 

De wereld laat zich als een kind rondshudden door het financieel systeem. Niks hebben de banken, niet meer dan de onwil van mensen om samen te werken. Deze moedigen de banken aan met praat over de noodzaak van competitie, maar iedereen ziet wie daar vooral beter van wordt : de banken, die dmv leningen die ze verstrekken iedereen steeds dieper in de schulden steken. Ze zijn er niet rouwig om, tijdens de laatste World Economic Forum bijeenkomst werd besproken dat er nog ruimte is voor $100 biljoen dollar aan schulden rond de wereld, bij een rente van 1 procent toch goed voor $10 miljard aan salarissen en bonussen. Alles zonder enig nut.

Wie niet oplet weet niet hoe nochalant er om wordt gesprongen met mensen die geen geld hebben. Zoals hoofd van de wereld bank Zoellick laatst in een video uitlegde, als de arme boer in africa omkomt omdat het niet regent, zou hij rain index futures moeten kopen. Misschien wat voor de hongerigen in Ethiopie momenteel? Het is niet minder dan een psychopatische dwang om alles onder controle van banken te brengen. Zonder enig zichtbaar nut, behalve dan dat er geld vrijkomt om met een rotvaart door onze fossiele voorraden te racen. Brive a banker or die.

HADDEN ZE MAAR RAIN INDEX FUTURES MOETEN KOPEN VINDT ZOELLICK

Nu maakt de wereld zich op voor een nog grotere fout. Er is geen schaars goed waar mensen nog controle over hebben, het is allemaal in handen van de markt, van banken. En zoniet dan wordt er geschuifeld tot het zo is. Het monumentale slachtoffer dat momenteel wordt gemaakt zal zoveel levens vergen en zo slecht zijn voor onze planeet dat het een misdaad tegen de mensheid kan wordeng genoemd. Water futures.

"SABMiller have joined forces with WWF to form Water Futures, a global partnership for tackling water scarcity." 

De belofte van geld als er geen water is? Of de belofte van water voor geld vandaag? Maak niet uit, het betekent dat de banken de waarde van de water voorraad zullen kunnen vermenigvuldigen en dat bedrag NU in omloop brengen. Want de regen van over een maand is geld waard, over een maand. Met een contract dat zegt dat dat water dan van u is kunt u naar de bank om geld te lenen. Met dat geld kunt u olie, gas en kolen kopen (wat anders niet mogelijk was) en met die brandstoffen kunt u de atmosfeer nog meer beladen, zodat er straks geen regen of alleen extreme stortbuien vallen. De prijs van water zal stijgen, elke druppel zal worden belast. Arme mensen zullen herkenbaar zijn aan de droge huid, of aan hun afwezigheid. 

"We try to find ways in which companies can benefit in moving from business models that are environmentally unsound to approaches which actively promote sustainability.

SABMiller is already on this journey with ambitious targets in place to improve its water efficiency. "

De bovenstaande quote klinkt goed, water efficiency enz. Maar desalinatie wordt kunstmatig duur gehouden en er komt geen eind aan de schaarste, dus de enige logische zet is het faciliteren van overprodcutie. Net als in het energie ‘debat’ opwekking wordt vertraagd door een roep om prioritering van efficientie, alsof de schaarste zal afnemen. Fossiele brandstoffen raken op, we moeten nieuwe energie bronen maken. Water raakt op we moeten water maken. De natuur en het leven raakt op, we moeten leven maken. 

De wereld heeft een probleem, en het zijn futures. Dit is al sinds de aflaat het geval (een contract dat vergeving na de dood beloofde). Banken en andere producenten van futues komen hun beloften niet na. Het zijn mensen die we een ongelovelijk privilege geven om geen andere reden dan dat ze zich netjes kleden. De CDS (credit default swaps) die momenteel een bedrag van 500 biljoen vertegenwoordigen, zijn grotendeels ongedekt. De zilver futures in Londen zijn (vogens een getuige) 1% gedekt. Er wordt fiat geld gemaakt om olie, gas en kolen met te kopen. Om zoals Putin het zegt op de wereld te parasiteren. Een nieuwe beelden storm?

Sterven van de dorst of afrekenen met profiteren van malaise. De kerkhervond zijn maatschappelijke taak, laat nu de banken die herontdekken. 

De Selsam windturbine bestaat al weer een aantal jaar, In plaats van met enkele grote wieken de energie uit de wind te halen doet Selsam dat met meer kleinere wieken. De as wordt in een bepaalde hoek tov de wind geplaatst zodat alle wieken voldoende wind vangen. De energie wordt via een as op een generator overgebracht. Dit spaart materialen.

Windmolens zijn ook in Nederland zeer toepasselijk, maar lijken steeds door investeerders de nek te worden omgedraaid (de prijs voor een kleine turbine verdubbelt doorgaans als deze voor de ‘markt’ rijp wordt gemaakt. Een van de succes verhalen in de VS is de Skystream. In de VS hebben kleine windmolens nu een 30% belasting subsidie. Waarom doen we dat niet in Nederland?

Skystream : 

De Donqi :

Windtronics BTPS6500 :

What if people can produce an abundance without actually doing much?

Roboeconomics 

It’s a new type of economics, that deals with the effects of robotics on the labour force. It goes back to the first weaving machine, but at that time the industrialists invented Keynesianism.

Robotics in agriculture, taken for granted

It should make you think: A bank makes $11,5 billion in profits, but decides it’s time to shed 30,000 workers. Never again can a bank motivate it’s actions with an appeal to job security. But that’s banking.

Foxconn will ’employ’ 1 million ROBOTS in order to drive cost down.

“Foxconn, which has been plagued by a spate of workers’ suicides in its Chinese factories since last year, plans to use the robots for simple assembly line procedures, the statement quoted its chairman Gou as saying.” (source)

Roboeconomics adresses the real need for a redefinition of labour, personal utility and the role of consumption on a world whith cheap high dexterity plastic robots capable of prunig trees and assembling micro electronics. The central question of roboeconomics is:

If we had a machine that made everything we needed,

would we all be jobless and unable to afford anything, or would everything be free? 

Grapes pruned and harvested by robots

The world is approaching the point where farming, food processing, making daily used items, clothes, cars, shoes etc. etc. can all be done without any human involvement. Without requiring direct human skills justifying a highly educated workforce. At least not for the majority of tastes. Problem with modern economices is : Then how do people earn money to buy what they need. Roboeconomics has an answer: They don’t. The majority doesn’t. In roboeconomics productivity is unlimited based on renewables and recycling. The question becomes, how much is needed. How do we distribute it. In a Roboeconomy one has two tiers of people: Those in the maintenace and development workforce and those that live a free life. How will both groups be incentivised? how will both groups be maintained? What will the reward structure be that creates stability and allows the two groups to mix.

Orange harvesting 

Roboeconomics is necessary, because spontaneous processes will not arrive in an altruistic and clean world, but more likely tend to ubiquitous depletion, failure and unnecessary competition, like present economics. Of course there is still a lot people can enjoy doing, and maybe that is the model to envision with roboeconomics? Robotic economic / ecological security and human ecological enjoyment. He who manages land best is given more land, so the world becomes a pleasure garden..