On May 22, 8:18*pm, Ed Huntress wrote:


There was both. There was basic work done on multi-layer thin-film
photovoltaics.

I never heard anything about basic research.


But what is non-stimulative about developing manufacturing technology,
and production scale for pilot projects?

The stimulus produced by developing manufacturing technology and
production scale pilot projects is pretty short term. In WWII there
was a lot of development of new technology.

There are two angles on stimulative spending. One, the short-term
method for maintaining consumption, is digging holes and then filling
them back in. The other is building fundamental elements of a future
economy. If it was politically possible, that was the plan that the
Democrats had for further stimulus.

--
Ed Huntress

Pretty much everything I heard was about shovel ready projects. Not
anything about increasing spending on say NSF or Darpa. _And all
that stimulus money has been spent with no long term results.

Dan

On Tue, 22 May 2012 17:37:38 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On May 22, 8:18*pm, Ed Huntress wrote:


There was both. There was basic work done on multi-layer thin-film
photovoltaics.

I never heard anything about basic research.

You can go to www.recovery.gov and see who got the money. There is a
wide variety of energy projects of different types.



But what is non-stimulative about developing manufacturing technology,
and production scale for pilot projects?

The stimulus produced by developing manufacturing technology and
production scale pilot projects is pretty short term. In WWII there
was a lot of development of new technology.

I'm sure there was, as one would expect in the time of a modern
all-out war.


There are two angles on stimulative spending. One, the short-term
method for maintaining consumption, is digging holes and then filling
them back in. The other is building fundamental elements of a future
economy. If it was politically possible, that was the plan that the
Democrats had for further stimulus.

--
Ed Huntress

Pretty much everything I heard was about shovel ready projects. Not
anything about increasing spending on say NSF or Darpa. _And all
that stimulus money has been spent with no long term results.

Well, you'd get an argument on "long term results" from a lot of
economists. Many have said that the stimulus money prevented the
probable loss of a lot of jobs.

--
Ed Huntress

" wrote:

On May 22, 8:18 pm, Ed Huntress wrote:


There was both. There was basic work done on multi-layer thin-film
photovoltaics.

I never heard anything about basic research.

But what is non-stimulative about developing manufacturing technology,
and production scale for pilot projects?

The stimulus produced by developing manufacturing technology and
production scale pilot projects is pretty short term. In WWII there
was a lot of development of new technology.


Electronics went from simple TRF radios and amplifers to RADAR during
W.W. II and a lot of that research was done at the MIT 'Radiation
Laboratory'. The entire series of once classified books are available
for download:

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&client=f irefox-a&hs=S9a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=mit+radiation+lab+series+pdf+free+ download&oq=mit+radiation+lab+series+pdf+free+down &aq=0w&aqi=q-w1&aql=&gs_l=serp.1.0.33i21.3052.5549.0.8162.7.4.0 .0.0.0.1618.3253.1j1j7-1j1.4.0...0.0.5FBdoS2G1c4

www.4shared.com looks to have them all.


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