Assume a glacier that provides summer water for a billion people. What is its value, if it is destroyed by global warming? Since it currently provides services for free, it could be calculated as zero, according to some. Hence, a hypothetical economic activity by those people that gave them one dollar in total while destroying the glacier [...]
Archive for the ‘Global’ Category
Economics and the Price of Nature
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Journalism, Models, Nature, Science, idiocracy, tagged climate change, Valuation, Nature, Economics, Sagoff, Costanza, Cost on Thursday 2009.09.10 | Leave a Comment »
Thorium Energy Alliance
Posted in Climate, Energy, Global, Motivation, Thorium, industry, tagged lftr, Thorium, Thorium Energy Alliance on Friday 2009.08.21 | 1 Comment »
A quick way to get up to speed on Thorium and LFTR, aimed at lay people.
I seriously doubt their cost and schedule stuff. One needs to do material science tests with this, so it’s going to take longer.
But otherwise. It is the industrial solution for the world. It is perhaps not [...]
Reality and Future
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Depot, ESA, Global, ISRU, Lunar, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft, industry, tagged NASA, Augustine, Depot, Jeff Greason, HSF on Tuesday 2009.08.11 | 4 Comments »
Jeff Greason is a rational person who simply gets it. It is mind boggling how completely opposite from someone like Mike Griffin he is.
See Jeff’s presentation with the Augustine Panel.
Paraphrasing, “we could go to Mars with Ares V but we shouldn’t – cause we couldn’t stay anyway”. Exactly. That’s the problem with NASA. (or the [...]
Save the U-233!
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Thorium, idiocracy, industry on Sunday 2009.08.09 | Leave a Comment »
Posting about it again. The Energy From Thorium forum has more on what’s going on. Some bogus weapons reasons are presented to the press for why it will be downblended. It could be the startup fuel of new LFTRs instead.
Quoting DV82XL:
This is the equivalent to the move to have streetcar tracks ripped up in so [...]
Mathematically Wrong
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Motivation, idiocracy, industry, tagged co2, Carter, De Freitas, McLean, Tamino, Trends, Statistics on Friday 2009.08.07 | Leave a Comment »
Tamino examines a certain paper:
It’s certainly not true that their analysis shows “natural climate forcing associated with ENSO is a major contributor to variability and perhaps recent trends in global temperature.” It shows no such thing; their analysis removes all the effect of trends.
A thing to remember when you encounter McLean, de Freitas and Carter, [...]
Kirk Sorensen’s LFTR Talk at Google
Posted in Climate, Energy, Global, Motivation, Science, Thorium, industry, tagged Energy, google, lftr, nuclear, sorensen, Thorium on Saturday 2009.08.01 | Leave a Comment »
Here.
Serious Solutions, No Feelgood
Posted in Architecture, Climate, Energy, Global, idiocracy, industry, tagged Climate, co2, Finland, nuclear, Pekkarinen, wind power on Tuesday 2009.04.07 | 1 Comment »
Finland is enacting laws that lead to building some more wind power. Like some professionals in the Finnish wind power association, Suomen tuulivoimayhdistys, have told me, perhaps the most important thing about wind power is that you have to be smart about what and where you build.
The wastelands of dead windmills in the California deserts [...]
Local Cooling
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Global, Journalism, idiocracy on Saturday 2009.01.17 | Leave a Comment »
This
leads to this.
Anarchy In The High Seas
Posted in Colonization, Demotivation, Global, Motivation, Uncategorized, tagged Anarchy, Environment, fisheries, Fishing, Regulation on Saturday 2008.12.20 | Leave a Comment »
Testing Quickpress (EDIT: it didn’t really work.)
Stuff like this happens when using a common resource not owned by anyone. In this case, fisheries.
Via Michael Tobis. Go read the post.
