Scientific Encouragement Biofuels have long been part of official plans for the energy transition, as a replacement for petrol or gas. The IPCC said in 2018: Bioenergy has a significant greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation potential,...
Read MoreThis is a summary of, and commentary on, an article by Eliza Daley called “Let There Be Dragons” Resiliance 22 July 2022 Let There Be Dragons Let’s be clear I don’t know enough about these subjects to be...
Read MoreThe original Brandolini’s Law, or the “bullshit asymmetry” principle is a really neat summation of things that are well-known, but hard to express simply the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an...
Read MoreCipolla’s “Laws of Stupidity” (The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity) are an interesting ‘useful joke’ for anyone who is concerned with information distortion, or the production of disorder. However, I...
Read MoreI’ve only just started to read Jared Diamonds book Upheaval (Little & Brown/Allen Lane 2019), so what I say may prove incorrect and need to be modified later. Diamond posits a similarity between the way individuals and...
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