Thee way things are currently, they hire a US based firm, that firm outsources it to China to make the pieces, when the pieces arrive at the US firm they grind off the Made In China badges and stamp on a Built In the USA label. Least thats how it is at the Case tractor plant here.Thee way things are currently, they hire a US based firm, that firm outsources it to China to make the pieces, when the pieces arrive at the US firm they grind off the Made In China badges and stamp on a Built In the USA label. Least thats how it is at the Case tractor plant here.

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Allot is allot when looking food for a few hundred million people and you aren't next to what amounts to a fresh water sea.

Rainforests don't make food farmland long term by virtue of them being RAIN forrests, the amount of rain they get in a year quickly washes away the fertile topsoil once it's not being constantly being replenished by new leaf litter. as for the grasslands, they are grasses that are only there for the rainy season, I'd doubt that said land could maintain such a nutrient inefficient crop like corn long term.

Traditional farming techniques like tons of nitrite fertilizer and fresh water piped in from far off places? Thats not an option and it wasn't for allot of The Midwest during the 30's, look up the Dustbowl and how wind erosion destroyed allot of farmland here in the US and how it's destroying parts of China today. In many places there simply isn't enough water in the aquifers to just start pumping it out as 10 years down the line the region will have desertification due to all of the water that was trapped in the ground being sent downstream.

how about something like the hydroponic system being used in Milwaukee, WI where they are also farming fish in the vegetable grows? Thoguh they do need allot more water in much of Africa, Desalination plants would help some, but not for the countries on the interior.

Huh? Do you know what a thin client is? There is no HDD, the machines boot from the net and connect to the server, for everything, this has a much reduced rate of failure as no longer have to worry about the HDD, you also have reduced costs by not having to pay for the Windows and Office licenses. You may think that this causes a single point of failire, but anyone running this type of setup will have it running on multiple virtualized servers, so if one has to be taken offline for maintenance the users are none the wiser.

Miss Nautalus? Try Mate http://mate-desktop.org/ as it's Gnome2.

Really? I'm running Linux Mint 12 on a 2Ghz P4 Northwood with 1Gb of DDR 266Mhz ram and a PCI Geforce 6200, runs plenty fast to me, though I am running the Mate desktop instead of Cinnamon or Gnome-Shell. The only speed problems I can attribute are paging out due to having too many Firefox tabs open, the lack of HD video capability and the weakness of the GPU for games that the CPU is otherwise able to handle well enough, think Humble Bundle and OSS type games.

Solyndra was a Bush program and was designed from the start to fail. What do you expect when they where selling pannels for less then the cost of manufacturing?