Data-driven oddities to note before and after TSHTF

A lot of UrbanSurvival readers think our Peoplenomics.com site is only about playing markets, saving for retirement and generally getting one-up on The Money Game.

Surprise!   It’s not.

It’s really about getting the most out of life and we broadly define that as our transactional relationships with the world.

Today we serve up a longish report with some tantalizing (non-stock market) ideas.  The first as we reveal a potential cause of U.S. (and global) obesity rates which are non-apparent but which line-up with historical data well.  Do we have a new “magic weight loss regimen?”  Read-on.  (Maybe…)

The second morsel is looking at everything (right down to which car to buy) as an exercise in cost-per-pound analysis.  There’s another surprise in the data there.

After our latest breaking economic news just out, and oh, sure, a handful of charts as we track the market through its latest gyrations…

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Lifestyle and System Integration is our menu today.

Since we have taken the time in the previous 8-chapters to learn the basics of the sub-system components, we can focus on making intelligent purchase decisions today.

Which will lead into next week’s chapter on wiring it all up and how to navigate a “Co-Generation Agreement” if you’re planning to sell power back onto the grid.

We’ll get to this after a few headlines and our usual view of the market which continues to be more than slightly bearish overall.

Coffee?

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There’s more than what’s on the UrbanSurvival site going on.

So we’ll launch into one of the more interesting investigations we’ve done into the long-cycle timing of how civilization-moving advances come about.

Which matters, because we are right in the “peak invention” period of the 11-year (variable) solar cycle according to our research findings.

First, though, a few examples of fresh data to review and the daily charts.  But let’s begin with..

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Advanced Chargers,  Inverters, and Grid-Tie

In today’s chapter, we’ll turn you into a prepper who “knows their stuff” about power inverters (that make AC from DC sources) as well as be inducted into the nearly occult world of computer controlled solar chargers using something called MPPT.

By the time we’re done, you’ll be ready to begin making seriously- competent alternative energy decisions. 

Even if you’re not putting in a big solar installation, this is mighty-fine knowledge to have in your “filing cabinet between the ears.”

First, a few headlines and then some charts of an increasingly preposterously-priced market.

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How Much is Enough?  No, I am not “George_the_Uber-Driver.”  That’s my son, FB page here. (sheesh).

After a short discussion of his experience with  how “cream always rises to the top” and “nut doesn’t fall far from tree” plus new Trade figures and our highly unorthodox look at the financial markets, we will drill into how much “documenting of your Life” is necessary these days in our Focus section.

Just one more shot of coffee and away we go…

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Discrete Chargers and Inverters

In today’s chapter, we explore  some of the key “discrete” components of an alternative energy system.  They’re “discrete” in that they are somewhat “system agnostic” and don’t look at a data bus for other manufacturer “family” products in order to operate.

To make this as painless and possible, we’ve broken this chapter into two sections:  Charging and Inverting.  Under these headings, we further list by approximate price-point in ascending order which roughly tracks performance scaling. 

As in so many other areas of life, you’ll see how in power electronics, the saying “You get what you pay for…” applies, too.

Before we get to this week’s chapter, though, we have many notes on the “Future Matrix” for the upcoming week that will drive human events (and therefore markets).  A method to anticipate the future is outlined.

All this after our usual foreplay consisting of some headlines and commentary plus a view of the stock market using our Aggregate Index approach. 

Did I mention coffee and that massage business in Florida?

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“You are Where You Think.”
Yes, that’s right.  There’s more to Life than making money so today we stretch-out a bit and do extreme home make-overs.
More than even what you eat, I believe people’s environment determines their productivity and, in the special case of home, you are very-much influenced by the vibe of the dwelling you live in.
Many people never “get into it” but to us, there is nothing more enjoyable than a home where every room transports you mentally to a “new way of thinking and being.”  Today, a bunch of notes on how we set about it – and a couple of highly-recommended books and resources.  Including some “Gee, why didn’t I think of that?” tech.
First, though, we will roll through some headlines and have a look at the market which closed just barely under our 23,723.38 target level on Tuesday but trading much of Tuesdfasy above it.  Time to call a top?
We bean up and roll…

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Odds of future Fed Hikes may be diminishing thanks to computer models. 

For those who don’t track such things, there is an incredibly interesting paper our from the Federal Reserve in its Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS).

In  addition, a long discussion on Mexico which we’ve been writing about for a couple of decades as a sorry place that doesn’t leave many happy endings in place.

While I would much rather continue with our alternative power systems design series, this is a money-making oriented publication and there’s a dandy reference to the Keynesians that this paper makes that falls right in line with our thinking.

So today, a few charts, a look at the trade-shortened week coming up (President’s Day, don’tcha know) and our sly though dry view of the Friday wash coming out in print…  Beaned up?

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EMP, HEMP, SREMP and other robust power design parameters.

We don’t mean to go off the deep end here, but there is a new report out on one of our favorite “unknowns” – namely Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) effects.

This morning, we review not only what some of the baseline data offers, but also present non-EMP factors to consider if you are planning to “keep the lights on” when few (if any) of your neighbors do.

After we look at the soaring market and some passing headlines to get us warmed up.

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Charging is harder than you thought.  Regardless of your energy source, whether wind, low-head hydro, solar,  or that noisy old gen-set, there is still the problem of getting the energy into your deep-cycling long-term alternative energy storage battery system.

It’s not as simple as it sounds. 

This morning, we break down how to do it right.  And as credentials, we’d offer our experience on our solar system here at the ranch which ran its first set of batteries from 2007 to 2018.  Decent “mileage” for batteries in anyone’s book.

First,. a few headlines and the morning’s charts..followed by a “focus section” that you’re sure to get a charge out of…

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I have pushed-back the next chapter on our solar/renewable energy book to Saturday because a couple of readers asked me to take a look at Gold which has popped up over the $1,300 level recently.

When I went through the data (which is something we love to do!) I found something that’s definitely worth thinking about.

That is, after we roll with headlines and our Aggregate view of markets.

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Confessions of “A Battery Slumlord.”  As  our “superior prepping” for whatever comes has evolved, we began with a survey of  basic energy economics in a society that literally would starve without lots of power.

After that, we ran through the process of “Scoring Power Sources” in chapter two.  On Wednesday, we rolled out some of the basic design parameters of any alternative power system by looking at lifestyles and load sheets.

This brings us to this morning’s chapter where you will learn more than most about how to select batteries.  We will “go light” on the chemistry, but we will share some critical theory.  Because with the exception of large ICE-driven sources, it’s nice to be able to store a lot of power for future use.  You’ll learn how to “run the numbers.”

First, however, a few headlines and some focus on the charts because we seem to be breaking higher in the markets.  We’ll dust off our Elliott wave prediction spreadsheet in here, too.  So coffee and headlines and then we’re off.  Doing what few will on such a football-oriented weekend.  Wasting none of our precious time in life, except, perhaps, to marvel at today’s demonstration of a time machine on national television.

Wait!  Did I just say time machine?

Sure did!  How else can you explain 2 minutes on the clock taking more than 20-minutes to occur out here in the hinterlands?

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Lifestyles and Load Sheets is  our next topic as we roll through a complete (in advance) book that should help you plan for a “better Depression” if there can be such a thing…

Next to food and water, nothing is more important to human existence that some form of energy which can then be transformed into light or heat.

Thing is – trivial as this may see – even those most-basic of human needs became hard to supply in the 1930’s.  Toss in extreme cold (such as we’ve had this week in the Midwest) and maybe a side of “grid-hacking” by foreign actors and the purpose of all this “planning and contingency work” should be immediately apparent.

Apparent, that is, after some key headlines, a glance at our market chart series, and then more coffee. …

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