The Hooters – And We Danced – Countdown Australia – 22nd December 1985
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Russia Revisited: Germany’s Winter Wind & Solar Drought Results in Soviet Style Power Rationing
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Soviet shortages led to the gag about “what has 100 legs and eats cabbage?” 50 Muscovites lining up to buy sausage.
Wind and solar obsessed Germans must feel a little like the USSR’s (unwilling) vegetarians at the moment.
Their endless seas of solar panels are plastered thick with snow and ice and, accordingly, producing two fifths, of five eighths of very little.
And their 30,000 wind turbines have downed tools, too. With bitterly cold, dead calm conditions across the country, wind power output has been reduced to an occasional trickle.
Power rationing is the only thing that’s preventing a total collapse of Germany’s grid; during the first week of January the country narrowly avoided widespread blackouts following the total collapse in wind and solar output.
But, if you relegate engineers to the status of well-meaning idiots, and supplant them with green ideologues with gender studies degrees, get ready for…
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From The Anals of Incompetence
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The moment Joe and Jill Biden were left awkwardly standing in the cold outside White House on Inauguration Day when doors to their new residence didn’t open because chief usher had been FIRED five hours earlier.
(hattip Daily Mail)
But @AOC said it is more important to be morally right than factually correct?!
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in Karl Popper, liberalism Tags: Age of Enlightenment, regressive left
The Great Fact @AOC @BernieSanders @oxfam
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in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
Lost on @BernieSanders @AOC
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: economics of socialism
ECON2175 2111 Lecture 3 – Were People from the Past Irrational Morons?
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, behavioural economics, economic history, economics of information
German Army: Why No Collapse?
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in defence economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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