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Rooftop solar could provide nearly half of US electricity demand

A major new study has significantly lifted the potential of rooftop solar PV in the United States, saying rooftop solar alone could provide 40 per cent of all the electricity needs of the world’s biggest economy, and around half if module efficiencies continued to improve. The study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory says the estimated potential from rooftop solar has been revised upwards by more than 80 per cent since the last study in 2008, mostly because of improvements of module efficiencies, building availability and solar modelling.

Tip of the Hat to Michael Di Matteo & Paul Szuster @ LinkedIn.

2016/04/022016/03/31

Michael Kearns: Leadership & Social Change

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Officers Call

Leadership. The “School” of American Leadership Studies & Development (ALS&D) has been the largest mythological tyrant ever to spew propagandistic mythology (1); therein, inflating the lust for money, power, and control as measures of “success” in America (2). Much like Trump’s Great Man ascertations, about how “great” America can be, much like him-self – with the Great Man, ego-centric hegemon – in charge (3). Bernie, in contrast, says “we, not I,” (4) and thinks about relationships, not self. This is much like the transformational approach in leadership studies (5), as espoused by Burns (1978) and Rost (1991/3), and as codified within the Social Change Model, as created by the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (6).

Notes & Links Below the Fold

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2016/04/012016/05/29

Robert Steele: Can Thomson Reuters [or Bloomberg] Be a $20B+ per Year World Brain?

Access, Advanced Cyber/IO

Can TR Be a $20B+ per Year World Brain?

As delivered to TR executives on 18 February 2016. There is no evidence anyone brought this memorandum to the attention of the TR CEO. It merits comment that when Michael Bloomberg was Mayor of New York, he answered my letter and hence got it — all evidence suggests that his mail at Bloomberg LP is being filtered to his detriment. These ideas were offered to Bloomberg via mail over a year before J.P. Morgan cancelled their Bloomberg Box contract.

Executive Summary

This memorandum offers a roadmap for taking TR toward $20B a year or more as a World Brain generating revenue from 20% or more of the online and offline knowledge that exists, instead of the current 1%, while creating the standard open source information-sharing and sense-making tool-kit that does not exist today. Instead of premium pricing for access to entire articles in a limited set, TR can achieve an order of magnitude increase in revenue and profit by achieving fractional pricing at the paragraph level from a much greater whole.

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2016/03/312016/03/28

Phantom Phixer: The End of US Two-Party System?

Cultural Intelligence

About time….

The End of America’s Two-Party System May Be upon Us

There’s a reason most parliamentary and presidential democracies have more than two political parties, and both Trump and Sanders are examples of why. Both nominee-hopefuls have increasingly come to represent polar opposites of the singular problem that the American two-party political system is suffering from: Stagnation.

2016/03/312016/03/31

Mongoose: CIA Confirms No Justification for Iraq War — Time for Wrongful Death Lawsuits Against George Tenet and Dick Cheney?

Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military

Declassified CIA Document Reveals Iraq War Had Zero Justification

The justification for going to war in Iraq thirteen years ago, was based on a 93-page classified document that allegedly contained “specific information” on former Iraqi leader President Saddam Hussein and the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs he was apparently running. Now that document has been declassified and it reveals that there was virtually zero justification for the Iraq war. The document reveals that there was “no operational tie between Saddam and al Qaeda” and no WMD programs.

COMMENT from Todd Pierce Esquire:

I helped on a lawsuit last year against the officials responsible for the torture of Mohammad Jawad, a kid at the time. These cases against individuals no matter how heinous their acts are always dismissed on the grounds that the officials were “acting within the scope of their employment.” An updated and American version of the “I was just following orders;” the Nuremberg Defense. Which means we must unhesitatingly point out that our officials and judicial system have brought us down to the level of the Nazis and all other totalitarians.

2016/03/30

Chuck Spinney: Hillary Clinton, DirtBag with an Email Scandal, Shoe-In for a Rigged Election

Corruption, Government

Only in America can a dirtbag like this be a shoe-in for the election.

Hillary Clinton’s Email Hairball Summarized in 11 Points (a Test of Presidential Character)

Naked Capitalism,Posted on March 29, 2016 by Lambert Strether

Reader ScottW summarized this very thorough explainer from the Washington Post of March 27: “How Clinton’s email scandal took root”. Hoisted from comments and very lightly edited:

Some takeaways from the Clinton email server scandal per the Post’s article:

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