Saturday, March 29, 2008

Heat pumps (Shock, Horror) use Electricity!

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This just has to be a No Shit, Sherlock moment for the hapless central planners of our funny little economy. For the otherwise unenlightene...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Earth Hour = Soft fascism

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Couldn't agree more with This (ht Tim Blair ). While I'm wholly in favour of reducing consumption (and am well ahead of the curve,...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Little Boxes

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The proposal to streamline the building industry consents etc process is gathering steam. Not PC has easily the best summary of my views -...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Bearing up

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Great thread here , where the comments throw up all the usual suspects. And the lead paragraph is just it: what Were they thinking? Scape...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Really Bad Rhymes

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I seem to have been infected by a Rhyming Bug, and to exorcise it, have commented all over a bunch of otherwise blameless victims. To hell ...

Another climactic known is revealed to be unknown

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This leetle bombshell affects, oh, around half the marine organisms in the world. In essence, by omitting the 'assumed in the current ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Overwhelmed by a Gust from Gaia

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ht: smalldeadanimals
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Black-Scholes = Black Hole

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My math is far too weak to follow Black-Scholes, but it's been the standard paradigm for pricing of exotic financial instruments for a q...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Pre-emption: that's the ticket!

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The always indispensable Spengler has done it again, with a piece about the wisdom of getting in your retaliation early. And of course the...
Saturday, February 16, 2008

Solar is subject to Moore's Law

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This piece (ht: Instapundit) is a useful reminder that the good ol' entrepreneurial business is the way forward. Earnest Gummint comm...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

If daisies are your favourite flower

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The dear sainted Archbishop of Canterbury does seem to have gottem his fluffy self into a spot of bother with his all-too-public musings on ...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Weather cooling?

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I follow Anthony Watts , and he's come across this , from the wonderfully named Joe Bastardi. JB sees a re-run of the early-50's pa...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

By the Shadow of our Hand

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A chilling but essential read for all who harbour Pollyanna thoughts about the Long War. Belmont Club has always turned out excellent anal...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Some GDP perspective

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I've always been a sucker for maps, and this one (ht: Gods of Copybook Headings) is a bewdy. Yup, we're about the size of the US ...
Friday, January 18, 2008

The VooDoo Bucket - Level 3 assets under FAS-157

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It all sounds very technical, but it is quite important. Find out (if you're a shareholder in a bank, financial instituion or even a pen...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

That good old stuff

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Stewart Brand should need no introduction: Whole Earth Catalog, and a personal favourite: How Buildings Learn . Edge mag invited a whole b...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Do not go Gently into that Zero-Sum Night

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Something I'd read ages ago, updated here by the always-estimable Martin Wolf of the FT, and commented by Naked Capitalism . If there i...
Monday, December 17, 2007

The Food Channel strikes again

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This little anecdote has to be one of this season's LOL hits.... How's about: a huhu grub inside a rifleman inside a tui inside a p...
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Woo-Hoo. No Really. Solar panels at $USD0.30/watt

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This is just the best news. Big award, for a deserving company. With current solar at around$USD3-5/watt, buying say 2 or 3 kw of panels i...
Monday, October 01, 2007

Abiotic Oil - Gaia's fruit after all?

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This is the latest (and, to my mind, clearest) statement about the origin of Oil - it ain't a 'fossil' fuel at all, according t...
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