Friday, October 28, 2011

A weekly PMCIN pie



A while back, a post suggested an 8-slice model for the Pie Making Capacity In Nation metric.  Actually computing it would be a great task for someone with a love of econometrics, but your pie maker prefers the narrative aspect as a frame for looking at what's going on in the world.

Security: Mitt Romney loves the Navy.  This is something he and your pie maker have in common.

Transportation: The Eclipse small biz-jet is back from the grave. Perhaps this means we'll see a real air taxi service at some point.

Energy: Solar is getting cheap enough that subsidies for it are threatened. Next year, your pie maker plans to explore this with an outdoor solar PV and thermal kitchen.

Housing: Have "home prices" become a modern cargo cult?

Health: An interesting concept that highlights how health can't be treated in isolation.

Dairy Production: The EPA does a pretty good job explaining modern dairy production.

Fruit Production: Sin trabajadores, no hay frutas.. It is a sad day when misguided attempts to preserve Americana hurt pie production.

Grain Production: It's very important.

With a special topping of optimism: Pie In The Sky (Space): Really big starships might not be as hard to build as we think.

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