Well, not as grand as the title might sound, but a Stanford Sophomore College class is in Hawaii to tour our energy sites.  ( I should add that I have an addendum at the very end of this posting, raising the status of this students beyond their expectations .) A rather pedantic course name--Energy in Hawaii:  Forefront of Clean Energy Technology and Policy. We will explore practical, social, technical, and political issues surrounding energy production and use in Hawaii. Hawaii is at the forefront of changes in the electric grid and the uses of electricity, with an aspirational goal for 100% carbon-free electricity in 2045. Hawaii also has passed legislation that aspires to 100% fossil-free transportation by 2040 . That last goal, actually applies only to land.  Air transport remains farther into the future.  The students are led by Stanford Political Science Professor Bruce Cain, who also serves as the Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West.  Has degrees from Oxford an

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I yesterday expounded on social welfare.  Let me add a final editorial, the matter of the   child tax credit , which will be excised when Biden and Manchin next year agree on the  Build Back Better Act that will end up being close to $1.8 trillion .  I don't want to go into the details of that child tax credit, which you can read here.   But is basically a transfer of money from the rich to the masses.  I think we need to adjust our charitable and social welfare programs to consider family well-being.  With aid to parents should be some compelling motivational incentive.  The whole matter of  entitlements  is at the foundation of what has to be re-thought out. Finally, unmentioned is that this type of government aid only further exacerbates  population growth , which will more and more strain the resource limits available in the world. Compound this factor with the contribution to poverty for families who can't afford children.  In the U.S. there is no effort to limit populatio