Sustaining the Wind, Part I...

[NNadir]

3. Thanks for your kind words. Regrettably anything I might do to fight magical thinking...

...is too little too late.

One doesn't have to look very far, here or elsewhere, to see examples of triumphalism that this money, 1.8 trillion in just ten years, has been squandered on this junk, despite the fact that it is entirely useless, and will soon become toxic landfill that future generations will need to manage on top of all the other crap we've left them.

The people responsible for this dire outcome are so oblivious as to not consider even the slightest shred of shame for the poor result that this incredible lemming like exercise has produced.

If anything borders on criminal, this does.

I have apologized to as many young people as I can find, my two sons included, about the effect that the ignorance and obliviousness of my generation has had on the future, but it's all that's left, an apology, and a very weak one at that.

I will say that I did learn an awful lot that I didn't know previously in preparing that work and the four parts that will follow. I like to think that I know something off the top of my head about every naturally occurring element in the periodic table, as well as many synthetic elements, but on reflection, before now, I didn't have much of an appreciation of indium.

Please do stop by for the next four parts, particularly part 3 about what is and is not "sustainable."

Have a nice evening.