#climateemergency #globalwarming #OTD
28 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Simply Staggering: What Weather Dependent Wind & Solar Really Costs
27 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
Assume, for the moment, the wind always blew and the sun always shone, then wind and solar power just might make sense. That’s why those talking about an ‘all wind and sun powered future’ sound like they’re coming from another planet.
Renewables rent seekers keep telling us how cheap wind and solar are, compared to those ‘evil’ fossil fuels, coal and gas.
But ‘price’ and ‘value’ are not the same animals. What we pay for something, and what it’s worth depends entirely upon what we get. And, in relation to the consumption of electricity, whether or not we get it, at all.
Wind power might be ‘free’, but try purchasing it, at any price, when the wind stops blowing. Ditto with solar power, when the sun does what it’s been doing every day since the dawn of time.
Comparing weather dependent wind generation and sunshine dependent solar with sources available…
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Ignorance is strength @jamespeshaw @mfe_news #globalwarming #climateemergency
27 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - New Zealand
Upgrading The Past
27 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
Between crappy TV cameras and 16mm film cameras that only ran at 12fps (frames per second), it’s fair to say that video coverage of the Apollo missions to the Moon could have been better.
How much better? Well, the idea of using a computer to build new frames in between the old ones, to get the video up to the standard 24fps, has been around for decades. Basically each pixel in a new frame would have to be created and its movement between frames calculated so that the transition was smooth to the human eye. Plus calculating all the other things like colour, contrast and so forth. Throw in the idea of upgrading the picture to HD or even 4K and your multiplying the workload by orders of magnitude.
It could have been done decades ago on supercomputers but they were too expensive to be used for such frippery, and…
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Empty vessels
27 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
A month or so ago I went along to hear the Governor of the Reserve Bank speak at the Law and Economics Association in Wellington. LEANZ is a pretty geeky sort of organisation (or attracts pretty geeky sorts of people) and against the background it was quite surprising how little substance there was to the Governor’s speech, which was billed as “Delivering on Great and Best” at the Reserve Bank. That is the Governor’s grandiose vision: his predecessor claimed to want the Bank to be the “best small central bank” in the world (although did little or nothing about it, including no relevant benchmarking) but Orr takes that a giant step further and claims to want to be the best central bank in the world. You might think that harmless – always good to aim high etc – but in a small country, not very prosperous, it isn’t clear…
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French War In Syria – British War Against The Iraqi Revolution I THE GREAT WAR 1920
27 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
The Wehrmacht – an Army on Horseback – WW2 – 100 – July 25 1941
27 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Aboriginal deaths in custody
27 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - Australia Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
The University of Chicago professes free expression as a “core value”, and a call by one of our faculty to “end the rot”
26 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
“The point of education is not to make you comfortable; it’s to make you think.”
—Hanna Gray (former President, University of Chicago, speaking in video below)
I greatly fear that one of my roles over the next few years, should this website continue, will be to chronicle the downfall of the University of Chicago as it abandons several of its foundational principles: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the refusal of the University to take political or ideological stands. The last foundational principle has two exceptions, the most important being this one (from our “foundational” Kalven Report of 1967):
From time to time instances will arise in which the society, or segments of it, threaten the very mission of the university and its values of free inquiry. In such a crisis, it becomes the obligation of the university as an institution to oppose such measures and actively to defend…
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