HOW “SHUT DOWN” ARE GERMANY’S NUKE GENERATORS.
22 May 2022 Leave a comment
Can they be reinstated or was that why Vlad waited so long?
France meanwhile enjoys 70% of it’s energy from Nuclear, and people suggest Germany is pragmatic, smart and efficient while laughing at the garlic munchers.
The inmates running asylums and who knew?
Prices Double: Obsession With Subsidised Wind & Solar Causes Runaway Power Prices
22 May 2022 Leave a comment
Australia’s power pricing and supply calamity is the product of policies deliberately designed to wreck reliable and affordable power supplies. Massive and seemingly endless subsidies to chaotically intermittent wind and solar have done what they were designed to do: drive the owners of reliable coal-fired power generators to the wall, by allowing wind and solar generators to occasionally deliver power to the market ahead of the cheap and reliable stuff.
The relationship between weather-dependent wind/sunshine dependent solar and rocketing power prices is crystal clear; see above the trend identified by Dr Michael Crawford a couple of years back, a trend which continues mercilessly upwards (read on).
Thanks to the erratic and occasional delivery of wind and solar, wholesale power prices are surging out of control and major energy users are simply being chopped from the grid when wind and/or solar output hits the floor. And this is just…
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1970s pessimism bias
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in economic history, economics of natural disasters, health economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Escape
Macroeconomic Consequences of the Pandemic with David Andolfatto, Beata Javorcik and Ricardo Reis 27 Aug 2021
22 May 2022 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, development economics, economic growth, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, inflation targeting, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics
Behind on my anti-vaccination blogging
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in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccines
Kate Andrews debates the gender wage gap on Sky News
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
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