And even more from the book it is based upon, “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Brian Easton writes – Christopher Nolan’s award winning film Oppenheimer is based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus. I really liked the title. Prometheus was the Greek god who gave mankind fire, […]
BRIAN EASTON: There is a lot to be learned from the award- winning film Oppenheimer
BRIAN EASTON: There is a lot to be learned from the award- winning film Oppenheimer
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in defence economics, movies, war and peace Tags: Atomic bomb
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in economics of education Tags: economics of languages
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Renewables Targets Scrapped: Britain Joins French Nuclear Power Generation Renaissance
28 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy, celebrity technologies, wind power
The French are just the latest European power to ditch ludicrous wind and solar generation targets in favour of nuclear power. And Britain is lining up to do much the same. Both have adopted net zero carbon oxide gas emissions targets, and the only way of meeting them is safe, reliable and affordable nuclear power. […]
Renewables Targets Scrapped: Britain Joins French Nuclear Power Generation Renaissance
Real Science Guy: Climate Crisis Imaginary
28 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Daniel W. Nebert writes at American Thinker Today’s ‘Climate Crisis’ Is a Fairy Tale. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. For the past 35 years, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned us that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, predominantly carbon dioxide (CO2), are causing dangerous […]
Real Science Guy: Climate Crisis Imaginary
Transition to Miserable Poverty: Net Zero Targets Designed So You Live With Nothing
28 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: energy poverty
You’ll own nothing and be happy, and you’ll feel pure bliss, freezing or boiling in the dark. Well, that’s what the wind and solar transition mob would have you believe. However, the likelihood of feeling happy or grateful living in a world without reliable and affordable power is pretty low. Electricity is one of those […]
Transition to Miserable Poverty: Net Zero Targets Designed So You Live With Nothing
Third Electric Bus Fire In London This Month
28 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: road safety
By Paul Homewood Another electric bus fire in London. This is Putney Bus Garage: https://twitter.com/ediz1975/status/1750116346606633023 The story has also been covered in the The Standard here.
Third Electric Bus Fire In London This Month
The Rise of Human Capital
28 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in Gary Becker, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply
No economist was more responsible for the appreciation, understanding and analysis of the fact that people invest in improving their productivity than was Gary Becker.
The Rise of Human Capital
More from New Zealand, a nation whose science is circling the drain
28 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, conjecture and refutation, free speech, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
I’ve written a lot about New Zealand lately, in particular the schools’ and government’s attempt to force the teaching of “indigenous ways of knowing” (mātauranga Māori) into the science classroom as a system coequal in value with modern science. That means not only equal classroom time, but equal respect, treating indigenous ways of knowing as […]
More from New Zealand, a nation whose science is circling the drain
Holocaust reviews
27 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
Memoirs The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman (1946) If This Is a Man by Primo Levi (1948) This Way For the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman by Tadeusz Borowski (1948) Night by Elie Wiesel (1960) The Truce by Primo Levi (1965) The Periodic Table by Primo Levi (1975) Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi (1981) If Not […]
Holocaust reviews
Nivelle’s Spring Offensive – Royal Conspiracy In Greece I THE GREAT WAR …
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models
27 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood Roy Spencer has written a long, detailed critique of climate models: https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/global-warming-observations-vs-climate-models The full report is worth reading, but his key graph and conclusions are below:
Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models
Germany: “Renewable Energy Sector Facing The Abyss”…”On The Brink” …Economy Breaking Up
27 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, Germany, wind power
The policies of (worst ever) Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) are leading the German economy to disaster.
Germany: “Renewable Energy Sector Facing The Abyss”…”On The Brink” …Economy Breaking Up
Fashionable in the good old days
27 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
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Life is full of tradeoffs: it costs money to keep chemicals out of our water systems
27 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, health economics
See Who Pays to Get Forever Chemicals Out of Drinking Water? It Could Be You: Officials say settlements with 3M and DuPont won’t cover all of the costs of building new filtration systems by John Keilman and Kris Maher of The WSJ. Excerpts:”Water systems are spending millions of dollars to filter out PFAS, the long-lasting compounds…
Life is full of tradeoffs: it costs money to keep chemicals out of our water systems
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