Wow, even CNN has figured out what a massive money-suck boondoggle it is. But the morons in Sacramento remain clueless.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Books
Where are they? We’ve got (perhaps literally) a ton of them, which are a pain to move, but we haven’t been acquiring many lately.
The Worst Law In Technology
The administration could fix it, or at least ameliorate it, but it would take some leadership from the president and attorney general, something that’s been in short supply.
NASA’s Technical Report Server
Has Frank Wolf shut it down?
As the emailer who sent me the link notes, “I understand the need for an ITAR review, however, what we have so far is a blanket ban, with no prescription in place for when and how this issue will be resolved. In the meantime NASA’s vast archive of technical information, so vital to the commercial and private sector has vanished in a single day.”
So where in the days of sequester is NASA going to find the funds to review the data and get it back on line? Just more ITAR madness that has cost the US space industry billions over the past decade and a half.
[Thursday morning update]
More over at NASA Watch.
[Bumped]
“Pay Now Or Pray Later”
Green Energy In The Red
Remember how if we didn’t let Obama hand out taxpayer money to his cronies like Solyndra, we’d be buying our solar panels from China? Well:
The world’s top-selling producer of solar panels has defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. The Chinese firm Suntech hasn’t posted a profit since the first quarter of 2011 and has been relying on the government of Wuxi, the city where it is headquartered, to stay solvent. But as more bills come due, this renewable energy producer is looking less and less sustainable.
Just shocking. If you’re an economic ignoramus, anyway.
A Supersonic Boom Box
Answering the important questions.
Environmental Legal Reform
..based on conservative principles.
Columbia’s Lessons
Jeff Foust has an article at today’s issue of The Space Review on the recent meeting to remember the failure on the tenth anniversary, with a lot of discussion of the topics of my book.
Order Now
The book is up at Amazon
[Late afternoon update]
OK, they’ve got the cover up now, and the reviews look good. I just told them to take them off the web site.