The World’s Oldest International Borders
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, international economic law, International law, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: economics of borders, maps
Vaccines work and are safe.
27 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: polio, vaccines
Permanent Part-Time Power: Wind Power Rush Leaves Texans Scrambling for Reliable Electricity
27 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Being a weather-dependent enterprise, no one thinks of promising their kids a kite flying holiday, ahead of time. So just how modern, Western economies ever thought they’d power themselves with occasional breezes is a mystery.
The inherent and chaotic intermittency that’s part and parcel of wind power is only compensated by the ability of dispatchable power sources to plug the yawning, routine daily gaps in wind power output. Those sources are, in order of priority coal, gas and nuclear and (where available) hydro.
The amount of power stored and re-delivered by grid-scale batteries is so risible it barely rates a mention.
In truth, the real heavy lifting is done by [insert trigger warning] fossil fuels, being inefficiently utilised in power plants, often given the misleading tag of “backup” power. Misleading because, before heavily subsidised wind and solar came on the scene, they did just fine, all by themselves, delivering power…
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Von Hippel on how we know when humans started wearing clothes
27 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
The Co-Founder Vanishes: Google Removes Patrick Moore as Greenpeace Founder
27 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore has made headlines in the last month due to his thrashing self-described Democratic Soclaist Alexandria Occasio-Cortez (AOC) for her Green New Deal in which Moore correctly points out implementing it would mean the destruction of our civilization.
While her fellow Leftists heaped praise on AOC for her proposals, Dr. Moore called her out by stating she was a Pompous little twit and pointed out what would happen if fossil fuels were banned under her proposal. Patrick Moore even made appearances on Fox News in which President Trump tweeted a compliment of Moore’s intelligence.
This was obviously the last straw for Good and Greenpeace and, according to Climate Depot, the far-left tech giant removed Moore from the list of Greenpeace’s founders.
In true Communist form, the Left erases undesirables from memory.
Andrew Sullivan: Brexit, impeachment, and which Democrats are electable?
27 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Things are bad when the most talented candidate is a small town mayor who must be surprised he got this far
Last Friday’s New York Magazine column by Andrew Sullivan covers, as usual, three topics. This time they’re Brexit, impeachment, and Sullivan’s splenetic but largely accurate assessment of the Democratic candidates: a panoply he finds lame and dispiriting. You should be reading his column every week, and I read it even in Valparaiso (after the curfew). I’ll give a few excerpts from each of the three mini-essays; click on the screenshot to read the whole thing:
Understanding the whole Brexit mess is above my pay grade; when I asked Matthew about it, he said “Wait and see.” Sullivan was a “remain” voter (i.e., don’t leave the EU), but he thinks that the UK should respect the results of the referendum, which was to exit. He also thinks that the “remainers” are trying to nullify the people’s will in indefensible ways, including calling for a re-vote. I don’t know whether that’s true…
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It Happened In Paris: WWII Nazi Occupation (1942 & 1944) | British Pathé
27 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Paris, World War II
Hitler is Disappointed by his Allies – WW2 – 061 – October 26, 1940
27 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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