Juggling Dynamite

One of the silliest things that people are saying today is that renewable energy sources are only for electricity not transportation. Or that electric vehicles don’t help because they are plugging into conventional energy grids powered from coal and other fossil fuels.  Yeesh! We are transforming the power that feeds the grid here people!! That’s the whole point of this.

We feed clean, renewable energy to the grid and then we plug in vehicles to the grid, and presto–renewable, clean, transportation power.  But that isn’t even mentioning the other most important reason to harness and feed renewable energies to the grid:  preserving our critical-to-life water supplies! The fact that massive drought has prompted California to issue consumption rationing on everyone but oil companies underlines the dark ages thinking here.

“The thirstiest industry on the planet is electric power. According to the Carbon Disclosure Project, about one-sixth of all water used worldwide goes into the production of energy, from fuel mining to electricity generation.

The water it takes to power up the computer is real, if invisible to users. And imperiled: A recent article in Forbes noted that Brazil and California (the world’s seventh and eighth largest economies by GDP) both rely on hydropower, and both are seeing electricity production impacts from drought.”

See:  Real liquidity:  investors should understand the water risks in their portfolio, even if the companies don’t

Double standards between men and women in Japan are spectacular to say the least. But you really have to watch this report to believe it…humorous if they weren’t actually criminally prosecuting the woman for this.

A Japanese artist on trial for obscenity after making objects modelled on her vagina said on Wednesday that there was nothing wrong with her artwork and her arrest showed how far Japan was behind the West in terms of sexual equality.

Megumi Igarashi, 43, was arrested last year after building a kayak with a top shaped like her vagina and sending 3D printer data of her scanned genitalia, the digital basis for the boat, to a number of donors.

She faces up to two years in jail and fines of up to 2.5 million yen (14.202 pounds) if found guilty.

Her arrest, on suspicion of distributing obscene materials, triggered debate in Japan over women’s rights and artistic freedom.

Watch the video report here, you have to see this to believe it:  video link is embedded in the article here. (for comparison purposes, watch near the end of clip for the the male genitalia sculptures that are typically paraded in Japan.  You can’t make this stuff up).

Danielle was a guest today on Talk Digital Network with Jim Goddard, talking about recent developments in the world economy and markets. You can listen to an audio clip of the segment here.