-
US 2022 Mid-Terms Thread
The latest indication of national sentiment:
-
Open Thread – Tues 8 Nov 2022
Suicide of Saul, Pieter Bruegel, 1562
-
A tangled web of electric make-believe
I looked it up. Apparently, pylons are needed each 75 to 100 metres to support high-voltage overhead transmission lines. In England and Wales there are 7000 kms of high voltage overhead transmission lines and 90,000 pylons. Roughly one pylon per 80 metres. Seems about right. I’ll use this number. Peter Dutton referred in Parliament to…
-
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…
-
Rabz’ Radio Show November 2022: Movie Soundtracks
The use of music in movies generally takes two forms – building or essaying the mood of a particular scene, (“the score”) or the use of a particular song (or theme) to emphasise a scene’s context. I’ve only got about four movie soundtracks in my collection that I’m aware of – they include: Betty Bleu…
-
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?
-
Open Thread – Weekend 5 Nov 2022
Erminia and the Shepherds, Eugene Delacroix, 1859
-
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…
-
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…
- Open Thread – Mon 23 Sept 2024
- Worse than Whitlam?
- Open Thread – Weekend 21 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 19 Sept 2024
- The Unnecessary War?
Perhaps overdoing it a bit?
Oops, here is her pic.
Having friends with different interests and tastes in life can introduce you to people and events you never heard of.…
Just watch “How the West was won” again – it’s 50 times the movie Costner’s unwatchable dross turned out to…
Saving the earth?