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    • Mon Nov 3rd 07:09 AM
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      The Shallowest Generation
      Excellent article with many well thoughtout responses in the comments. As a mid-boomer (1956), my generation has often puzzled me. That puzzlement is broad based but the failure to elect a president who reached the age of majority AFTER WWII before Clinton (1992) has been particularly bemusing to me. Perhaps that's a sign of voter apathy, something not characteristic of the depression babies with their higher percentage participation in the vote.

      Boomers certainly seem to have abandoned the ideals associated with them in the 60s and 70s. I think the reality might be that those ideals were never adopted by the majority of the generation, which is to say that other than gross numbers, boomers fall into a similar normal distribution as any other generation.

      One thing that did change for boomers was women in the workforce. That exploded in the 70s and I don't believe the "system" (financial, cultural, etc.) has ever really adjusted to that. I suspect it is a major factor in finanicial illiteracy that may have made post-boomer generations more suspectable the financial come-ons that lead us where we are today.

      All things run in cycles that interact with other cycles. If we are lucky, we'll see a cultural reversal that will eventually reward us with a recovering economy. That cultural reversal must come before we get sustainable ecomonic improvements.
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    • Sat Jul 26th 09:45 AM
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      SEPA Report Showing End-Market Demand Disconnect Could Sink First Solar, SunPower
      A valid concern for investors in the short term. However, I hold out some hope that state and federal policies might shift to at least put local energy production on par with centralized production. You can't get much more local than your home or business. With some attention to conservation, these smaller locations may be more likely to produce more energy than they consume. Or at least, the capitalist ideal of parties taking actions that are in their own best interests, the owners should strive for that goal.

      Personally, I think solar PV is a poor choice for centralized utility power production. Solar thermal makes much more sense for utility-scale installations, in part because of the stored (heat) energy characteristics that allow for a gradual production decline at sunset.

      On the comment about the price of oil, solar stocks may be becoming untied from that. Solar is to replace coal, not oil. Mining and burning coal is an so many ways a bigger environmental threat.
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