Year: 2004
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On privatizing social security
Great little article by Paul Krugman in the New York Times about the attempt to privatize Social Security. Here’s a blurb; link above. Inventing a Crisis By Paul Krugman The New York Times Tuesday 07 December 2004 Privatizing Social Security – replacing the current system, in whole or in part, with personal investment accounts – […]
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Solar panel tech
This is cool stuff. An EU collaboration has resulted in some low-efficiency but pliable and easy-to-produce solar cells, termed H-Alpha Solar. This is something I’ve been wondering about for awhile: traditional solar cells are so expensive to produce; what if we could make cells that were less efficient but cheap as chips to manufacture? The […]