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Let’s Lift Wind Literacy
Reading literacy appears to be in decline and that is causing concern but spare a thought for the prevalence of “wind illiteracy.” This means lack of awareness of the wind supply, especially at the continental scale. Wind illiteracy has enabled the biggest peacetime policy blunder in our history, that is, connecting intermittent energy sources from…
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Mater’s Musings #62: “Real-life skills” indeed
Do the fees include the super glue, or is that extra?Is it issued before or after graduation?
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Open Thread – Weekend 5 Nov 2022
Erminia and the Shepherds, Eugene Delacroix, 1859
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Weekend Reading #11
Henry George in The Critic wades into the mire that is Jonathan Last’s recent criticism of the conservatism of Roger Scruton. Two essays on the demands for ‘pandemic amnesty’, recently request by the Regime via their Atlanticist envoy, the reply from Sohrab Ahmari was Nyet and from Pedro Gonzalez was Punish. Pierre Manet reviews Émile…
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Putting energy realism on the google map
The Energy Realists of Australia have two sites, the original list of papers hanging off the RiteOn site and our own site, Flickerpower. It will help if these sites come up on the first page of searches and this is more likely to happen when they get more traffic directed from other sites, like this…
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Open Thread – Tue 1 Nov 2022
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Open Thread – Weekend 29 Oct 2022
Still Life with Dahlias, Zinnias, Hollyhocks and Plums, Eugène Delacroix, 1835
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Weekend Reading #10
It appears the reports of Conservatism’s death were premature. Sebastian Morello at The European Conservative responds to John Daniel Davidson’s We Need to Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives, included in last week’s Weekend Reading. Gladden Pappin and Chad Pecknold over at The Postliberal Order consider the relation between the Church’s spiritual power and the temporal power…
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Guest Post: Gyro – Fisking An Ignorant Activist
Please note: this is in traditional fisking format. Stan Grant in normal font, Gyro’s responses in italics. Grant: To understand China you need to understand whiteness, yet it’s missing from the conversation In some ways, Xi’s China may represent the end of whiteness. Except that the Chinese Communist Party itself mirrors whiteness. It is not…
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The Energy Crisis is upon us: Energy Disaster is coming.
A guest post by Bill Stinson, one of my colleagues in The Energy Realists of Australia and author of an important survey of damage inflicted on the planet through the life-cycle of wind and solar projects. The Dark Side of Renewable Energy. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap” – Galatians 6:7. Australia is without…