New Catallaxy

  • Open Thread – Weekend 15 July 2023

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #79

    Nuts am I ? The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (released in 1948) written and directed by John Huston is a brilliantly sharp-edged study of the effects of greed on otherwise normal men, and one man in particular – Fred C. Dobbs, superbly realised by Humphrey Bogart. Dobbs and Bob Curtin (Tim Holt) are down…

  • Open Thread – Thurs 13 July 2023

  • Approaching the tipping point

    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. Its all about the wind droughts. Especially at night. First, the ABC of intermittent energy production. A. Input to the grid must…

  • The return of the triffids

    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,…

  • Urgent call for objections

    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,…

  • Open Thread – Mon 10 July 2023

  • Hooey Galore

    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.…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 8 July 2023

  • Libs embrace nuclear power

    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…

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