Farmer Diaries

 What is it with Texas and electricity every few weeks it’s either too hot or too cold. It’s too windy. There’s always a reason why the utility double triples or even quintuples electric rates when electricity is required. All this indicates is a Texas as a shortage of energy either it has insufficient gas powered station or insufficient, solar or insufficient coal power stations. The reality of energy is that if your basin of providers is small, a small variance from the norm, any shape or form, will lead to dramatic increase in cost of production.  Acquaintances, who live near Houston tell me that they had planned for their solar panels and battery to be reimbursed fully by lower energy cost in less than five years. In actuality, it took less than one, whereas their neighbours were seeing monthly bills of a few thousand dollars this was not their experience since they made very little demand on the grid. At the same time they were receiving tremendous amount of pressure from...

 It sounds ridiculous but the reality is that twice on flights I almost died the first time it happened was in the late 1990s when I missed a Silk Air flight between Jakarta and Singapore, where I then lived. I only found out the next morning while open the newspaper and confirm with my ticket that I actually had been booked on the doomed flight. I knew two people both employees at American Express. Who died on the flight. The second time I was living in Mexico at the time I boarded a flight on a CRJ regional aircraft between Mexico City, and Merida.  Pilot was in a rush, and he flew too high and too fast, and suddenly we lost lift. You could hear the pilot grunting as he tried to regain control of the aircraft that was beginning a flat spin. It lasted about a minute we must’ve lost 20,000 feet in a few minutes but few passenger realize how serious it was only the grunting of the pilot made it clear that something was seriously wrong. Eventually, the pilot regain control of th...