I remember coming across an innumerate post on this blog once before, bringing in some reality, and being told to leave. I note that there's no quantitative ana

I remember coming across an innumerate post on this blog once before, bringing in some reality, and being told to leave. I note that there's no quantitative analysis in this post. His message seems to be that the sky is about to fall because some state governments aren't paying for food stamps, etc, which is reading a bit much into it. Here was that post: http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2008/07/trailing-edge-technologies.html http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2008/07/trailing-edge... He thinks that going back to the 50s and getting rid of microcontrollers in sewing machines would save substantial amounts of energy, and he didn't let the fact that those microcontrollers draw minuscule amounts of energy compared to the sewing machines and could result in a net savings if they allowed it run for a second less change his mind. So I would take anything he says with a grain of salt.