Is the Wehrmacht Defeated in 1942? – WW2 Special
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in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War II
Boris Johnson’s Bizarre Persistence With Unreliable Wind Power Defies All Logic & Reason
16 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
Insanity is doing that same thing over and over again and expecting different results, which is why STT raises an eyebrow (or two) at Boris Johnson’s persistent love affair with heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind power. His belief that taking it all offshore will make a difference, only confirms that this man has a tenuous grip on reality. Indeed, the belief that a modern, industrialised economy can rely upon a stone-age power source is positively bonkers.
Boris and his fellow travellers have now had the benefit of Europe’s Big Calm – a period when winds slackened across Western Europe and the UK – leaving thousands of these things completely idle. And yet, the amorous obsession remains.
Then there’s the astronomical cost of trying to generate occasional electricity tens and even hundreds of kilometres offshore and returning it to terra firma using cables prone to failure, and difficult and costly…
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HYEFU bits and bobs
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I don’t have too much to say about yesterday’s HYEFU, but two things caught my eye.
The first was a bit of attention on the $6 billion “operating allowance” the government has given itself to increase spending (or, I suppose, cut taxes) at next year’s Budget. It is a big number, but it doesn’t mean a great deal. In principle, the operating allowance covers things where the government has some discretion (whereas, by legislation, tax revenue tends to rise each year as nominal GDP does, and welfare benefits rise each year as inflation/wages do, and without new legislation the government of the day has no choice in the matter).
But governments tend to care about purchasing/delivering real goods and services, and they need actual people to work for them. And when there is inflation, the dollar cost of purchasing goods, services, and labour tends to rise. Governments don’t have to…
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Funniest U E Grooming But She Want To See Eye While Sleep
16 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture
What is science
16 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education, Karl Popper Tags: philosophy of science
How Airlines Quietly Became Banks
16 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle, transport economics
The Shape of Dialogue Podcast No 8 What is science? with Steven Pinker
16 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education, Karl Popper, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left, virtue signalling
Galileo’s modern critics
16 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
What is it with some philosophical and historical commenters who take sides against Galileo in his 17th century dispute with the Church?
Perhaps because we now have many documents from that period (17th century) – including Galileo’s original writings, official documents from the Inquisition and the church, and the text of complaints made to the inquisition about Galileo’s beliefs and teachings. This itself can fuel different perspectives.
However, I think another source of this lively debate lies in the preconceived notions and beliefs of the modern protagonists. That, to me, is the only explanation for a trend (a trend – I don’t blame all) among commenters on the history of science that seeks to blame the victim (in this case Galileo) for the affair. To claim that Galileo was scientifically wrong. That the Church was correct to suppress research into a heliocentric model for the solar system. And to…
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Eagles Go Legal: Audubon Society Sues to Shutdown California’s Golden Eagle Mincers
15 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
The rampant slaughter of millions of birds and bats, including America’s iconic bald and golden eagles, is met with a shrug by wind power acolytes, everywhere. When confronted, the wind industry simply resorts to lies and obfuscation and – when the corpses can no longer be hidden and the lying fails – issue court proceedings in an effort to literally bury those facts (see our post here).
Cars, cats and skyscrapers don’t kill Eagles – like the critically endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, but 60m wind turbine blades with their tips travelling at 350Kph routinely smash them out of existence.
For concentrated carnage, though, California’s Altamont Pass takes the cake. With thousands of turbines slicing and dicing dozens of golden eagles, owls, hawks, and kites every day, it’s more like an abattoir than a power generation facility.
Finally, America’s Audubon Society has lawyered up in an effort to…
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