Stop Three Waters
30 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, theory of the firm
Europe’s Epic Renewable Energy Fail Makes Transition to Nuclear Power Truly Inevitable
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The fastest way to get people thinking about electricity, is to deprive them of it. Europe’s power pricing and supply calamity has sharpened thinking and provided a golden opportunity for engineers and free-market economists to wrest back control from ideologues and renewable energy rent-seekers.
Until the Big Calm hit Western Europe last month – causing wind power output to plummet across the continent and the UK – all the talk was about a purportedly ‘inevitable transition’ to an all wind and sun powered future.
Well, things aren’t looking so ‘inevitable’ for wind and solar, after all. Grid managers have been left scrambling for what little gas might be available to fuel open cycle gas turbines; and recently mothballed coal-fired power plants are being desperately pressed back into action, both in Germany, and in the UK.
Only those countries with substantial nuclear power generation capacity seem untroubled. Until recently, the French…
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The Global Warmists didn’t think this through
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Apparently some activist group on Twitter, called “DCist” recently started running Global Warming Catastrophe stories to support the great COP26 conference in Scotland.
That’s the conference that has seen hundreds of political and bureaucratic worthies spewing thousands of tons of CO2 into Mother Earth’s atmosphere by flying from all over the world to a place where they can discuss how they can stop spewing meagatonnes of CO2 into Mother Earth’s atmosphere.
Here’s one example.
I said many years ago in these debates that people telling me with horror that “The great cities of the world like New York, Washington D.C, San Francisco and LA, will be flooded”, was not only not going to get me onboard the AGW-action train but produce the opposite reaction: “You mean I get to burn fossil fuels AND destroy Leftist enclaves? SIGN ME UP”.
And so…
This thread is even better for responses.
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Which energy is free?
30 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in energy economics Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
David Friedman BSU Lecture – Part 2/4
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics, property rights
Environmental Economics | Lynne Kiesling
30 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Fresh Meat – The Search For New Recruits I THE GREAT WAR – Week 14
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
People (Ordinary, that is) need to change their diet and flying habits to help planet, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance warns
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29 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA
Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan by Michael Ignatieff (2003)
29 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
Nobody likes empires but there are some problems for which there are only imperial solutions. (p.11)
Nations sometimes fail, and when they do only outside help – imperial help – can get them back on their feet. (p.106)
A bit of biography
In the 1990s Ignatieff managed to combine being a tenured academic, a journalist making extensive foreign trips, and a TV presenter. Without planning it, Ignatieff fell into a rhythm of publishing every 2 or 3 years short books chronicling the unfolding of the failed states he visited, and the chaos which engulfed some countries after the end of the Cold War.
These short but engaging studies build up into a series of snapshots of the new world disorder unfolding through the 1990s and into the post 9/11 era, mixed with profound meditations on the morality of international affairs and humanitarian intervention:
- Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New…
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Openness to immigrants
29 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, labour economics, labour supply Tags: economics of immigration
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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