“Electrification would require sweeping changes to the nation’s power grids. Under the scenario visualized above, total electricity demand in the United States would roughly double by 2050, even as overall energy use went down.” …. “To meet that demand, electric utilities would need to add staggering amounts of new emissions-free power while making sure that all those newly electrified cars, homes and factories don’t strain the system and cause blackouts. “
Electrify Everything: Dreaming the Impossible Dream
Electrify Everything: Dreaming the Impossible Dream
10 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The Navajo Nation tries to prevent human ashes from being sent to the Moon
10 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: moon landing
Here’s an example of how indigenous peoples, on the basis of their superstitions and religion, try to control modern technology or how it’s used and science. In this case, reported by CNN (click on screenshot below), a commercial enterprise is taking some small amounts of human remains (presumably ashes, though it’s not clear) to the […]
The Navajo Nation tries to prevent human ashes from being sent to the Moon
40 years on
08 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, inflation targeting, international economics, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand
On Solow
08 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economic growth, history of economic thought, macroeconomics
CO2 Tax Farmers Protests Rock Germany, Government Backing Down
07 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Germany
In the face of protests and a rising electoral threat from right wing AFD candidates, the German Government has grudgingly offered concessions to victims of their green policies.
CO2 Tax Farmers Protests Rock Germany, Government Backing Down
Green Activists? Russians? German Natural Gas Pipeline Sabotaged
07 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics Tags: Germany
Inspectors have discovered suspected sabotage, someone apparently drilled 1cm holes in the pipeline.
Green Activists? Russians? German Natural Gas Pipeline Sabotaged
Oh Canada: Government Blocks Citizenship Due to Russian Conviction for Criticizing the Ukrainian War
07 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: free speech, political correctness, refugees, regressive left, Russia, Ukraine
I have long been a critic of Prime Minister Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who has devastated free speech in that country while assuming sweeping authoritarian powers. Now, his administration has blocked the citizenship of Maria Kartasheva because she has a conviction in Russia. The crime? Free speech. Kartasheva was convicted in Russian for criticizing…
Oh Canada: Government Blocks Citizenship Due to Russian Conviction for Criticizing the Ukrainian War
Science-Based Medicine goes down the drain
06 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, health economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Lordy, how many of us used to love the Science-Based Medicine (SBM) site? I did! It was the go-to place for enjoying the debunking of medical quackery and the scrutiny of dubious medical claims. Started in 2008 by Steve Novella and David Gorski (“Orac”), SBM is affiliated with the Society for Science-Based Medicine. Sadly, it’s now […]
Science-Based Medicine goes down the drain
The World At War 1917 I THE GREAT WAR – Week 128
06 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Not much of a warranty period
06 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship Tags: The Great Enrichment
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Pension crisis
06 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics Tags: ageing society
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Take me to the alter
06 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of love and marriage, labour economics, law and economics Tags: marriage and divorce
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The authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart
06 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: fall of the Berlin wall, The Great Enrichment
The Sullivan Signal: Harvard’s Failure to Educate and the Abandonment of Principle
06 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, rule of law
The current Harvard disaster was clearly signaled by earlier events, most notably the 2019 firing of Dean Ronald Sullivan. Sullivan is a noted criminal defense attorney; he was the director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and he is the Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School, he […]
The Sullivan Signal: Harvard’s Failure to Educate and the Abandonment of Principle
Mandatory Indoctrination: UC San Diego’s Climate Change Education Requirement
05 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
This requirement, approved by the Academic Senate, is a clear example of the university’s shift from fostering critical thinking to promoting a singular ideological agenda. The post Mandatory Indoctrination: UC San Diego’s Climate Change Education Requirement first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Mandatory Indoctrination: UC San Diego’s Climate Change Education Requirement
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