Life...

Well, Remember Track 3 from Illmatic with the jazzy sample, the catchy hook, and the most ominous meaning... Yea that's how I'm feeling right about now. Thanks to this fucked up economy, this fucked up government, and some fucked up timing on my part, my futures looking real cloudy. First I fucked up my grades over the summer when I decided to take 3 classes and fucked my GPA, dropping it below. Well, you might say, 'ohhh whats the big deal, you GPA is below 3, its not the end of the world'. The problem is I really on schoolarships to cover whats left to pay after I've recieved all the grants from financial aid. Now most of these schoolarships depend on a GPA above 3, so there goes 6,000 dollars out the drain. To make matters worse, with this fucked up economy and government slashing money on spending for education, I'm now even more fucked. My Financial Aid Grants were cut by just over 1,000 dollars while tuition still increased, and now with this fucked up Economy theres no way I can get a Private Loan to cover the 7,500 I need to pay January to Continue School in the Fall. Life really sucks right about now, I wish I could just 7,000 dollars of those 700 billion being given out. To me the only silver lining in that is that now they'll be able to control the paychecks of those greedy CEO, but I need a real solution to my Problems, any Advice, Information, or Help would be useful, Thanks.

Wind Energy? Feasible?

Well, I've been researching Alternative fuels for the past week and half, thinking of way out of this mess we've put ourselves in. Ethanol and Hydrogen look really attractive to me, mostly because of the Chemistry, but they have so much obsticles in the way that we still years away from really being able to develope it, market it, and mass distribute it. The one thing I do see promising though is Wind Engery.

Wind Energy is Renewable, Enviromentally Safe, and best of all, Almost no marginal cost. Thats right, forget paying 5 dollars a gallon at the pump, instead of 40 dollars to fill your tank half way, Imagine paying 1 dollar for fuel that could last you a whole week. Now realisticly this doesn't seem possible in the next 10, 20, or even 50 years, but you never know what new technology can come out tomorrow.

At about 300 feet above the ground the wind in the atmosphere is actually relatively constant and can keep powering a turbine no matter how much wind is actually blowing on the ground. This alone could even double the efficiency of some turbines and Wind Farms.

I actually have alot more research to do, but just thought I would share some of this.