Not enough Sleep!

An old friend once told me that a cheap and easy Invention existed for Everything, but It sometimes had not been found yet. We need an Energy storage capacity for solar energy; We don’t have an effective system at this point in time, though Someone will think of something sooner or later. I have been toying with ideas in the area, and believe some young brilliant Student of nature should contemplate the expansionary characteristic of Water with the internal increase of Energy. This, along with the heavy weight of Water, could create a compression Generator of some type; the Constraint being the huge volume of Water which would have to be utilized. I once thought of using Ocean water to evaporate ocean Salts to a higher level, where the heavier material would provide greater generating capacity, and industrial resources when returned to Ocean level. Sound Weird? It is, considering the volume of fluids which would have to be used, and the distance such Salts would have to raised: something like millions of gallons, and a minimum 30 foot Rise.

The Above process would be greatly aided by design of a permeable membrane which would itself generate an electrical current, simply by the liquid passing through it. Does such a membrane exist? Not yet, but the frictional characteristics of permeable materials dictate that some such design is possible. It would be Nice, and possibly Science Fiction, to generate Electricity by simply pouring Water unto mass layers of thin sheets of material–say about 5000 layers, each producing a certain Wattage per penetration; simple Evaporation and Condensation could provide the motive power, with a potential Power generation through both Processes. One could even dream up a Design to utilize Tides to incur the necessary height of the water, by a Step ramp process; Readers should be warned that I get a little Nuts, when contemplating technical designs.

Here is a sensible, economic disaster to contemplate. The real meat of the problem is in the year-over-year increases, especially in the Core Producer Prices. Economists will criticize this assessment, but Core PPI can easily translate into Increase levels in the Cost of Living. These Prices, minus Wage Increases, directly devolve into Decreases in the Standard of Living. A Core PPI increase of 2.7% year-over-year must have a matching Wage Increase level to hold a steady Standard of Living, and I suspicion that 80% of the Labor Forces lost about a Percentage Point in total Labor Wages over the past year through reduction of Work schedules. It gets foggy on a cold, dark Night, and the Werewolves are out! lgl