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Marconomics, Comet Whisperer, Clothing engineer

Monday, November 28, 2011

Europe's Problems Summed Up:

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• Pythagorean theorem: .......... 24 words • Lord's prayer: .......... 66 words • Archimedes' Principle: .......... 67 words • Ten...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

The Day of the opposites

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When it comes to voting for the Speaker of the house , a kind of opposites Universe comes into being. Labor members nominate an LNP member, ...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

What is it with pears?

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Almost all fruit that I store in the fridge stays the same ripe as when I put it in until eventually it rots. Mangoes, avocadoes, bananas et...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Solar power: My views are in line with Sobek, the crocodile God

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Sobek while praising the capabilities of solar, has been scathing in the use of feed-in tariffs. Solar feed in tariffs reek of the sulph...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

I'm Changing my Qld Government vote to LNP because the Industrial Relations minister is a Dick

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By name and nature: See: article on clothing manufacturing There really is not a lot of jobs nor candidates for union membership anyway, ...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Getting a return on NBN battery backup = Marconomic solar PV plan

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This article has a bit on the bottom regarding the battery backup unit, which many commenters have also mentioned. The problem is that alth...
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Monday, October 03, 2011

Still water flowing down the Murray Darling and out the mouth

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The perceived wisdom that drought and a closed Murray Darling system is the new normal continues to be challenged by reality. From my reckon...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Yuan for the money?

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My latest read of the Economist had a particularly disturbing but compelling argument that it is only a matter of time before the Yuan will ...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Enough with the sneaker net already!

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I don't really know where I was going with this link but I thought it about time that I mentioned where I felt communications were up t...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Nice Hung Parliament

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It appears to me that rather than the country independents having the balance of power and being the most important block of votes, it seems...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

Tennis dates

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Can anyone tell me the last two times and cities an Australian has won a Grand slam singles title? September 11th 2011, New York. September ...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Stuff I may not have published about my experience of 11/9/01

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- In August of that year I had suffered a nervous breakdown which became completely reset after 911. - I was in complete denial and I tried ...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

For *off-grid* PV solar, we have reached and exceeded fridge parity!

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My father has a house at west point, and since the electricity grid (nor the water grid) does not reach there, a combination of power altern...
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Saturday, September 03, 2011

All subsisidies reek of the sulfurous stench of Hades

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All other things being equal, (food production, installed PV systems) doing well is a sign that policies are on a good path. The problem is,...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Anthropogenic Global Warming

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I have so much in my head at the moment, and a great desire to write it down, but it is completely incoherent. For the global warming deb...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

They should have built fibre to the premises

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I think that The US's experience of wireless broadband demonstrates the dangers in relying on private enterprise capital and regulation...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

US - Politics and Game theory. It doesn't get any simpler than this.

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For anyone who has any doubts about the merits of considering politics in terms of game theory should look at the debt ceiling negotiations....
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Wow. "Unpopular" tax reform with a hung parliament

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One thing that tends to characterise hung parliaments or even non-traditional coalitions in most countries is their ability to only pass pop...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Arguments against my arguments against feed-in tarriffs

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Since my goal is not really to try to convince people of my point of view as much as measure it against my own logic, I think it is time to ...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Amartya Sen and all that

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Amartya Sen did a lot of research on the causes of famine and the gist of the conclusions was that lack of food was not a factor at all, and...
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