Eduards J. Vucins

The real truth about Covid 19 therapy

Revisado: 08-29-24

As a retired physician this book highlights the current state of medicine. Follow the money. Remember it’s the physical and not the system that you need to select to survive.

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A Great marketing book

Revisado: 02-03-24

This guy will sell you a homestead in a swamp. Reality is replaced by possible,could, might, should as well as subsidies, taxes and credits. For a dose of reality one should read any of the books by Vaclav Smil that have true scientific basis. If we repeat a lie often enough, we still can’t make it true. Cheap renewables have resulted in German paying 4 time higher electricity rates than the US and those same renewables raise my electricity rates every time there is a legislative mandate to increase their use. One should remember that the subsides and supports from the government come from taxes taken from the citizens.

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Bias By Omission

Revisado: 05-02-23

While the author provides useful facts and information, he ultimately reveals his bias for renewables. The negatives of current fossil fuel use are emphasized, but when renewables are discussed their negatives are only mentioned in passing. The material is slightly outdated since it is 8 years old. The author reports that renewables are less expensive than current electricity generation technology, however my costs for electricity have increased from 12.5 cent per kWh to 17.5 cents in the last 5 years after State mandates for renewable electricity production. That’s reality. Their intermittency, which leads to expensive additional gas peaking turbines, inefficiency of base load plants, batteries and many other grid stabilizing technologies increase the costs many times over. If they were so cheap the wouldn’t need a 33% government subsidy and a whole industry of collecting tax credits.

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A dose of reality

Revisado: 01-09-23

An excellent summary of what is driving the climate change industry. As is the case with most things, one needs to follow the money. This reveals the trail exceptionally well when we look at the California situation. Superb book.

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Wanders from subject

Revisado: 06-21-22

Was a good book at the start when it talked about the super tall buildings, but more than half of the book was not relevant. Much of it spent on equity and social justice.

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Horrible pronunciation

Revisado: 10-27-20

The cities in South America are Spanish and are not video games, this drove me crazy while listening. Interesting historic book.

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Only For Policy Wonks

Revisado: 05-19-20

Extremely boring after the first hour. Redundant mental masturbation for 70 years, while each administration reinvents the same points of concern.

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Horrible reader

Revisado: 09-10-19

Never again would I listen to this reader!!! Historical story only, written in 1914. Not related to current times.

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Slanted and Boring Book

Revisado: 04-03-19

An extremely slanted book toward organic farming. It did have some interesting information, but was difficult to finish because it was so unbalanced. There was not one
acknowledgment that the current industrial farming with all of its faults feeds 7.5 billion people and that without nitrogen fertilizer production via the Haber-Bosch process fewer than 2 billion people would be able to live on this planet. Maintenance of biodiversity is important, but farming this way will remain a niche bossiness. Besides there is nothing better than a nicely marble prime steak from a GMO fed steer, ($6 less a pound than grass fed) washed down with an old fashion prepared with a high fructose corn syrup sweetened soda. I wish the author would live a little.

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A socialist's view on fiber optic home connections

Revisado: 03-30-19

This book is a socialist guide to home fiber optic connections, it sounds great only if you don’t have top pay for it. The great examples are in extremely dense cities (Singapore, Tokyo), small socialist Scandinavian countries, authoritarian China (with dense new construction) and a few relatively dense US cities (Chattanooga) subsidized with a government grant of 111 million ($620 per connection). It is high on social justice, but devoid of cost and pertinent information on construction. In the last chapter she finally quote’s a cost 0f $80 billion or more. That seems laughable because in her home state of CA they can’t build a slow speed train from nowhere to nowhere for that amount ($40 billion started, now $77 billion and not serving SF or SD as promised). This was a waste of 7 hours.

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