New Catallaxy

As the capacity of coal power sinks towards the level of demand This is a short story to explain why intermittent inputs from the sun and wind can’t power a sustainable energy system. Spoiler: Its all about the wind droughts. Especially at night. First, three important features of the power supply and what that means.…

Triffids first appeared in a post-apocalyptic novel in the 1951 that depicted a swarm of people-eating monster plants stalking the countryside. Apparently they were bioengineered in a secret laboratory in the USSR and accidentally got released into the wild (yes we have heard that one before.)    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids The modern triffids are made of steel,…

Sorry for late call, objections close at midnight and the word is that not enough have come in yet to force a review of the submission. 50 are required and the locals have been captured by the RE interests. It takes less than five minutes to lodge an objection after you register on the portal,…

When I was growing up in Liverpool England, my dad’s favourite word for what he regarded as nonsense was ‘hooey’. I didn’t know where he got it from. Maybe from American gangster or western novels, which he devoured before television took over the household. It’s North American apparently, though its origin seems to be obscure.…

BUT WON’T LET GO OF INTERMITTENT ENERGY “PARTNERSHIP” Oh well, half a loaf! Peter Dutton is leading the Liberal team to demonstrate a bit of ticker to challenge the Labor narrative on The Voice and now he is taking up the Small Nuclear Reactor (SMR) option. He delivered a spirited address to the assembled IPA…

I won’t bore you with the minutiae but the site’s current problem/s seem to be revolve around the theme (appearance of the website) and database issues. A temporary site upgrade (increasing the RAM) was made yesterday afternoon in order to see if that resolved the database issues. It appears to have somewhat as can be…