New Catallaxy

  • 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…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #43

    Epics from Ancient History With the advent of televisions in the lounge rooms of everyday families in the 1950s, the response from the studios and film-makers was to try and provide their audiences with something TV couldn’t provide i.e. spectacle and widescreen (cinemascope). The first theatrical film released cinemascope was 1953s The Robe a biblical…

  • Preview and Predictions – 2022 US Mid-term election

    This time next week we should have a decent idea of the results for the 2022 US mid-terms. The discussion with Baris and Barnes , above, is excellent preview of the upcoming mid-terms as the go over the polls, individual races, and the like. You can also find the latest from RCP Election Maps here.…

  2. Their “dignity, autonomy and even ascendancy” is best achieved in their original homelands, which already include conquered regions. Return there,…

  3. Seems to me it would rely on a basic level of trust between the general population and the authorities that…

  5. Reeks of CIA psyops. They don’t have a great record. Trying to fix a problem you’ve created.

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