Amid the political posturing about the nation’s unemployment rate, two encouraging tidbits surfaced in the news flow this week.
The first item was that rising unemployment numbers might well indicate increasing numbers of jobs. Counter-intuitive, but true.
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The second item to grab my ear was there are plenty of new jobs in the renewable energy industry, particularly for anyone interested in climbing 300-foot high wind-power towers to maintain the turbines.
And interested also, possibly, in moving from where they live to where the jobs are. (There was a time in this nation’s history when it was normal to move one’s residency for promise of income.)
For instance, Oklahoma has been beneficiary of a boom in wind-power generation, with small, jobless towns gaining treasure in much the way northern tier Pennsylvania towns have benefited from the Marcellus Shale … Read it all …
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In the Niger Delta the oil majors flare enoug gas to fuel 50+ million cookstoves on an ongoing basis. In Haiti, the original sugarcane country, cane production has dropped from 80,000 cultivated hectares to under 15,000 hectares. The solution currently being advanced for Haiti by USAID is to import fossil fuels for cooking instead of promoting the development of an ethanol fuel industry supported by small farmers that would power stoves and other appliances, including generators for local power needs. Project Gaia is promoting unique solutions for both Nigeria and Haiti, and other countries as well.
In the U.S. POET Energy has just broken ground on its first cellulostic ethanol plant. This will be ethanol from cellulose, not corn. This has been a dream of U.S. visionaries since Henry Ford invented the Model-T, which was designed to run on ethanol produced by farmers.