The Circle of Energy - What Heats this Place, What Keeps it Warm

It's was a snowy day, perhaps 6 inches fell that night. I was thinking about warmth and insulation, about houses and the Atmosphere.

There's a boiler in crawlspace, and I can hear the pump circulating its somewhat warmed water. There is natural gas coming into the building burning in a boiler. We have a utility bill, monthly accounts for that, let. Unfortunately, through the great West we have decimated the landscape with literally thousands of natural gas and oil permits. I understand their new systems where salt brine is pumped thousands of feet deep into the Earth's crust. Explosions are set off somehow miraculously, gas contract in the rocks is left free to come up to the capture heads and be distributed to our great network of burning heat producing unnatural systems we've created over the last century or two. I wonder how much we will regret pulverizing so much of that great rock we must stand upon. Are we simply recycling it and expecting the earth will harden it again. I am not so optimistic.

We talk about greenhouse gases, the buildup of CO2 in our atmosphere, which has a temerity to trap the lovely heat in. With CO2 our other problem is simple warming. We are doing this everywhere. If you run it vehicle tremendous amount of heat is radiated and then unused in any system. It is simply emanated into the air, or perhaps used to defrost a windshield. Ultimately, as in this house that is what warms the place. And if there's good insulation that heat stays in place. Our "problem" is that we've developed a good insulation blanket, and we have a very effective boiler, but by keeping it to warm the ice in our freezers is melting and our food is going to go bad. But it's on a global scale, and we need to deal with it before it's too late.

Exploring the brave New World

This blog is not connected to my business. For all I know it's never been read. But some of the taglines to which I have written I do feel to be extremely important - not only for now, but for the future.

The time between posts is not without activity. Much time is spent in the day-to-day of processing work and trying to find new ways of getting business done. That part of "trying to find" We might think of as "Exploring" but perhaps it's just hunting and gathering.

These are, to be sure, difficult times, but the underlying structure of this time is the same as any other. We need to run our businesses, we need to achieve sales goals and restrict expenses. We need to make plans for the path forward, including product developments, marketing plans, financial contingencies.

But these are also different times. Not just that we are trying to spend less money. Everyone is trying to spend less money. In our lives the essentials of one's mortgage (or shall I call it shelter) food and general living expenses are central to our concerns. and as we go to work and school and market.

These days we also have these phones in our pockets, computers on some desks (most desks). We have this new layer of cyberspace that has entered our domain, creating a fourth dimension through which we must also navigate. This is not so new but it is indeed evolving. Perhaps I am through with Email. I would like to be.

I'm writing this post, somewhat to put off the work that I will do next at the house today (it is Sunday of course). And here I am fiddling with this interface on my laptop which is a mysterious Bluetooth connection that goes between my telephone headset and this computer. If I speak deliberately (not too liberally as it transcribed) and watch -- it happens to actually go into the text box. Well, not just a "text box" but this thing called a "blog post input box", and I'm staring at now. And I realize too, that I am not talking about the original subject of this was to detail the difficulties of this time, but I am rambling.

So I guess in the style of most posts. I should keep this short (which I have not done) so that next time someone might return and read about some other subject. If tht is you, you may read about how newspapers are in trouble or our infrastructure will be rebuilt by the printed whims of Washington, the Federal Reserve. Or you will hear of some media whitewashing of the "real situation." You might read about the importance of "coats for kids" programs, and how to house the "homeless"population. And I hope you won't read from me about a domino like series of bankruptcies - ones not just in the business world, but in municipalities and states and ultimately our federal government.

I hope you won't be reading that. But I don't know too much of hope.