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A starting thought
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India Determined To Increase Coal Output
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By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler This is in the latest edition of World Coal While growth in coal production slows gradually across the globe, India is setting itself apart from other countries, with its ambitions to aggressively increase its output.
India Determined To Increase Coal Output
Week 278 – The Siege of Bastogne Begins – WW2 – December 23, 1944
31 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
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Buick Dealers Fleeing the Net Zero EV Revolution
31 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle
“… we’ve given dealers who are not aligned with Buick’s future to exit voluntarily in a respectful and structured way …”
Buick Dealers Fleeing the Net Zero EV Revolution
Solow on Market Advantages and Market Failures
31 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
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Robert Solow (1924-2023) died last week. As a starting point for understanding his life and his work on growth theory, the Nobel prize website, since he won the award in 1987, includes an overall description, a biographical essay, and his Nobel lecture. I can also strongly recommend an interview that Steven Levitt carried out with…
Solow on Market Advantages and Market Failures
Bobby Fischer vs Mikhail Tal • Tournament Candidates – Netherland, 1962
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One of the greatest endgames of all time I Spassky vs Fischer (1972)
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Entrepreneurship
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How Were So Many Economists So Wrong About the Recession?
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That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, I thought it was time to call out all the Orwellian rewriting of intellectual history going on, so here goes: As Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said last week: “So many economists were saying there’s no way for inflation to get back to normal without it entailing a […]
How Were So Many Economists So Wrong About the Recession?
December 29, 1170: Assassination of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. Part I.
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Thomas Becket, also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (December 21, 1119 or 1120 – December 29, 1170), served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then notably as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his death in 1170. He engaged in conflict with King Henry […]
December 29, 1170: Assassination of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. Part I.
Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam
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… foundations of sand – naïve optimism reinforced by enthusiastic lobbying divorced from engineering reality. The post Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam
Time to Bring Nuclear Energy Into the 21st Century
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
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The silver lining of this month’s United Nations COP28 global warming conference is the growing consensus that nuclear energy is critical to meeting national carbon dioxide reduction goals.
Time to Bring Nuclear Energy Into the 21st Century
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Aussie Coal State Premier Promotes the End of Coal
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Queensland’s long reigning premier Annastacia Palaszczuk may have cut and run in the face of negative polls and a looming election, but her successor’s plan to accelerate coal job losses will help?
Aussie Coal State Premier Promotes the End of Coal
Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030
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By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness It appears that the BBC will print any nonsense it is handed by the renewable/climate lobby: Wasted wind power will add £40 to the average UK household’s electricity bill in 2023, according to a think tank.
Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030
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