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| Every time someone mentions wind or solar power as the answer to our energy needs, the image that should form in your mind is that of 1 billion or more dying and starving children. If you do not yet understand why this is the case, you are forgiven. By the end of this piece you shall have been given the essential concepts and facts both to understand this ugly truth, and to act to prevent it.
Begin with this: To maintain a global population in a condition resembling a modern 21st-Century standard of living will require an installed electrical generating capacity of at least 3 to 5 kilowatts per capita. Today, only the United States, Japan, and a few countries of western Europe even approximate this level of generating capacity....
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March 23, 2007
—EIR News Service announced the publication of
The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism,
by Professor Stanislav M. Menshikov.
Translated from the Russian by Rachel Douglas, the book is an authoritative study of the Russian economy during the first 15 years after the break-up of the Soviet Union. The Preface, by EIR founder and contributing editor Lyndon LaRouche, titled, "Russia's Next Step," poses the need for U.S. policy-makers to study and grasp the "disease" presented in this book, since it represents "an economic global pandemic which we must all join to defeat." |
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This Week's Cover
- The Astounding High Cost of 'Free' Energy
by Laurence Hecht.
The world-wide shortage of electricity cannot be rectified by wind or solar power, so those who advocate these 'free' sources of power are condemning the majority of the Earth's human population to backwardness. Solving the problem requires examining the two most important concepts in evaluating a power source: energy density and energy flux density. The only rational conclusion is that we must build 6,000 gigawatts of generating capacity, and only nuclear power will do the job.
Science
- The Meaning of Physical Time
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. continues the discussion of physical time that he began in last week's issue, with his article 'Nations as Dynamical.' That report, he writes, concluded with a summary outline of the economist's working definition of physical time, as opposed to clock time. Now, still responding to the same relevant question posted after his Jan. 22 webcast address, 'I focus on some essential implications of the role of physical time as such. I compare physical time, as a conception of a principle of physical space-time, with the related concept of physical space.'
Economics
- Like 'Free Energy,' There Is No Such Thing as 'Free Money'
Even though the government can create unlimited amounts of money at essentially no cost, the effects will be disastrous if that money is not spent to create wealth. The best-known example is Weimar Germany during 1922-23, when prodigious amounts of free money were printed, which produced no wealth, and left the nation in ruins.
- The Fascists Versus FDR, Then and Now
The imperial bankers, heirs of the people who joined with the fascists and opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s and '40s, have launched a renewed campaign to assassinate the character and accomplishments of FDR. Their goal is to prevent the Obama Administration from taking up Roosevelt's campaign for the general welfare, and against the 'economic royalists.'
- Do You Want To Stimulate the Economy? Then Build New Nuclear Power Plants
National
- Pelosi, Frank Schemed To Bankrupt the United States
Lyndon LaRouche has renewed his call for the ouster of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, and charged that both Pelosi and Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, collaborated with Felix Rohatyn and George Soros, to kill legislation LaRouche had advanced in 2007, which would have protected the U.S. economy from the crisis now hitting it.
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