What Happened to the Spent Lunar Modules?
14 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: moon landings
Climate economics (PG): Policy advice Richard Tol
13 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, public economics
India Rumbles Wind Power as Fake Electricity: Output Collapses During Dead-Calm Monsoon
13 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
The spinning wheel was meant to signify Indian independence, too.
It never takes them long to work out that wind power is the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Eco-zealots have attempted to ram wind and solar power down the throats of Third World governments under the auspices of saving the planet and purportedly with the purpose of dragging millions out of poverty. As the initiated well-know, wind power rates zero on both scores. Pointless and expensive, wind power is a kind of first world disease being spread by UN endorsed lunatics, across the developing world.
In India, solar power is seen as ‘fake electricity’, by those being forced to use it: The Cruel Hypocrisy: West Drops Wind Power as it Forces ‘Fake Electricity’ on the World’s Poor
Now, Indians have branded wind power an outright fraud, too. The calm, and very wet weather that comes with the monsoon…
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Minnesota Madness: Big Freeze Exposes Wind & Solar’s Deadly Flaw – Hopeless Intermittency
13 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
Power consumers pinning their hopes on the weather, inevitably learn to expect mixed results. 200,000 Victorian businesses and households learnt the hard way, as a sudden wind power output collapse left them sweltering during a summer heatwave.
At the other end of the temperature spectrum, the risk of being powerless is even more serious. The elderly and frail do not last long without reliable and affordable energy to heat their abodes.
Across America’s Mid-West a burst of frigid weather has exposed the fatal (literally) flaw in wind and solar power: they’re never there when you need them most.
Why “Green” Energy is Futile, In One Lesson
Powerline
John Hinderaker
31 January 2019
Here in Minnesota, we are enduring a brutal stretch of weather. The temperature hasn’t gotten above zero in the last three days, with lows approaching -30. And that is in the Twin Cities, in the southern part of…
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The gender commuting gap explodes with motherhood as does the raw gender wage gap in the UK
13 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics Tags: gender wage gap
Demsetz is spot on on the drivers of market concentration
13 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: antitrust economics, competition law, creative destruction
The gender gap in meddlesome preferences
13 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of regulation, law and economics Tags: meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Before the polio vaccine
13 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: vaccines
Energy Investments Dialogue @BillGates
13 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, renewable energy, solar power, wind power
How Planes Land Sideways In High Winds
13 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: Air safety
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