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The Grid and War
In a recent article the economist Tyler Cowen brushed off concerns of an AI bubble, and argued that the trillions of dollars flowing into the sector was ‘proof that the U.S. economy can reinvent itself at unprecedented speed’. In an extreme...
Power for the people
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Publicly owned municipal electricity firms were 37% more efficient than their private sector equivalents.
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In Britain the clamour for economic growth has reached fever pitch. One of the most...
The very predictable energy crisis
The term crisis is bandied around so much today that it is easy to become numb to it. Turn on a British news channel and you will be presented with a long list of areas of life to which the word ‘crisis’ has been affixed.
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The problem with 'S-curves'
All industries have rituals; the cutting of steel (ship building), ground breaking (construction), graduation (education). In the energy industry one popular ritual is the ‘cheering and jeering of subsidies’. The ceremony is simple; the gov...
Why don’t we just put electricity cables underground?
It was Karl Marx that observed that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. In February 2025 the deputy leader of Reform, Richard Tice, announced that if elected the party would require all new (and some existing) electricit...
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