SUNDAY

Last words on Meet The Press' hour-long discussion over the Afghanistan war: the exit strategy is alternative energy. I absolutely agree. But we shouldn't even BE in Afghanistan. The mistake was in not pursuing and capturing Bin Laden and the rest involved in 9/11, no matter where they went. That's all we still should be doing. And for some reason we can't pressure Pakistan enough to let us go in and get the bastards?! What has ensued since that mistake is absolutely maddening.

That said, we did free the people of Iraq and Afghanistan from evil regimes at great sacrifice of our heroic troops and great cost and years of grief and sadness and anguish. And that's reason enough why our government can continue to borrow at low rates from the rest of the world. And owed much back from the world. It may come in time. Then again, this global financial crisis did come from the US. Maybe we lost some credit due.

Thousands of Floridians are owed over $14M in solar rebates from the state. Makes for bad feelings toward clean energy, you think? Come on Florida. Play fair.

Watching Deadliest Catch - food supply for the rich - and one hell of an adventure - the episode where they not only lost a crew member but a whole boat. And I find that quantum dot solar needs lead selenide and titanium dioxide to capture the "hot electrons". But still a lot of steps to commercial development. Just one is transferring hot E's to conducting wire. "We'll be lucky if in our lifetime" that they'll be on rooftops. O well. Awesome. But back to the energy policy drawing boards.

Fisker will be 6 months late in delivering EV's despite the $500M US government loan. This is QTWW. The problem is private financing, not tech, they say. O, it couldn't be the $88k sportscar or the $40k family sedan after tax rebates (yeah count on them). Well, that's where the Volt's coming in at. More expensive cars. I remember buying a Toyota dam station wagon in 1970 for about $2.5k. Yep. Low payments. That was another economy altogether.

MIT has come up with nano strontium-substituted lanthanum cobalt perovskite for solid oxide fuel cells. Current SOFC efficiency is ~60%. And they don't need Platinum. Thin film perovskite over zyrconia gives 50% reduction in operating temps which extends component lives. Could mean old coal plants transformed into fuel cell plants fed with methanol or even cleaner fuels.

G20 comes out of riotous Toronto with agreement to plan deficit reductions with flexibility on stimulus. Pourfict. And Chinese exports may suffer on currency rise. Well, here we are. Then payrolls US fall in June from laying off census workers. But, to the good, Alex will not be the storm to make the oil spill pure hell. And BO has the financial bill to sign and here comes energy bill debate. But. The US has 46 states in Greece. Budgets broke to total tune of $128B short. Oil's going back up at $78 and Gold too.

Well, Sunday's getting a little long in tooth. So happy trailers all ye fellow awesters. Keep cool. Stay good. Do great.

PS. Navy hopes to launch a couple satellites to harvest electrons from space to use with Earth 's magnetic field for propulsion. Electrons exceedingly scarce beyond 1000km. This is space street cleaners stuff. But ISS too.