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Terribly busy

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Between a combination of work and avoiding tax by turning half my garden into alcohol (made over 20 gallons so far), I’m afraid I’ve been rather neglecting what’s going on in the world which makes updating here trickier. so in the meantime do enjoy this fantastic post by White sun of the desert “According to this article in the Daily Telegraph (H/T Tim Worstall), Williams F1 give potential employees a basic maths test and a lot of them are failing. This is a remarkable coincidence, because for the past few months I have been part of a joint industry committee comprising … Continue reading →

In the pay of the bogey man

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It’s too hot at the moment to write anything much so instead I’ll just share a couple of links, first from the ever informative Katabasis, it’d seem that evil big oil profits quite nicely from global warming alarmism thank you very much. Whilst on the subject of the bogey may I also draw your attention to this event Obviously you’ll only want to go to such an event if you’re in the pay of both big tobacco and big alcohol. Sadly I won’t be able to attend as I’ll be at a “big oil” sponsored event at the time doing … Continue reading →

Peak oil may be delayed again

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It seems these days fuel and energy stories are never far from the headlines. This week that nice Mr Cameron panicked people into causing fuel shortages by warning them that if there was a strike that affected oil delivery it might be well to be prepared. Last week in turns out that to the nearest whole number the contribution made by Wind power is zero. Then going back a bit further we had numerous scare stories about Oil fracking in the UK. Oh and of course the the building of new UK nuclear plants has been cancelled, so it’d seem … Continue reading →