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» 29/03/2011 4:01:19 PM First, Amicus and Hume (seeing you asked): I have a PhD in solid state physics, a degree i.....
» 29/03/2011 2:00:50 PM GrahamY Have you ever heard of economic spillovers and externalities? They can make a big.....
» 29/03/2011 12:34:42 PM Curmudgeon As usual, you make a range of assertions but do not provide even one solid ref.....
» 28/03/2011 6:18:36 PM Curmudgeon: Is your statement: "...the Chinese government can say anything and have.....
» 28/03/2011 1:26:50 PM To my worthy interlocutor Curmudgeon (and others who aren't brassed off by side-squabbles).....
» 28/03/2011 12:00:23 PM Once again, the perennial OLO-ers- Amicus, Leo Lane, Runner, Plantagenet and Peter Hume ha.....
» 28/03/2011 9:16:30 AM While not necessarily agreeing with your conclusions, Chris, I think that you have have ma.....
» 16/03/2011 6:05:23 PM Spindoc- I'm pleased to see you succinct description of an engineer: "Engineers make.....
» 16/03/2011 3:24:15 PM rpg I'm perfectly aware of that. What you don't seem to know is the difference between a p.....
» 16/03/2011 3:21:01 PM Shadow Minister I will try to ignore your opening sentence as I have grown accustomed to .....
» 16/03/2011 1:34:23 PM Interesting stuff, and made even more interesting by the responses. One point that Jim ha.....
» 16/03/2011 5:23:07 AM rpg- and YOUR comments? It was good enough for Ziggy S to be all over the media on Sunday.....
» 15/03/2011 9:49:49 PM Hmmm..... Not much sound out of the pro-nukes today. I wonder why? But Mark D- I'm not in.....
» 15/03/2011 11:44:48 AM Curmudgeon- By no reasonable use of syllogistic logic (or any other kind) can you infer th.....
» 15/03/2011 10:01:37 AM Mark Duffet- if you read my earlier post carefully, you would have seen the statement: &q.....
» 14/03/2011 9:35:50 PM GY- you said "JM, I've been a big fan of solar energy for around 40 years. It has yet.....
» 14/03/2011 10:45:23 AM GrahamY The point that I was making about polls was to try to develop methodologies to se.....
» 14/03/2011 9:14:22 AM Graham- Rather than conflate your worthy opinion polls with wild guesswork about Labor's p.....
» 9/03/2011 4:56:09 AM Curmudgeon I'm glad to see that you're starting to get into the swing of referencing your.....
» 8/03/2011 5:43:19 PM Alas! Curmudgeon has dashed the hopes that I expressed in my last post. While the price-e.....
» 8/03/2011 9:12:56 AM Thank you Michael for your sensible article. I hope that it generates some fruitful discus.....
» 13/02/2011 9:07:50 PM Loudmouth- you're redeemed! :-) I think that the important aspect of this is the differen.....
» 13/02/2011 4:01:31 PM Loudmouth: Your interjection is an example of the core issue that we are struggling with h.....
» 11/02/2011 11:14:39 AM Pericles: Three thoughts from your erstwhile Athenian, Socrates, are appropriate: First,.....
» 6/02/2011 1:49:32 PM This thread has been most fascinating, as it goes to the heart of OLO's raison d'etre- ie,.....
» 1/02/2011 10:44:55 AM I think that this is a useful article to provoke an important discussion about behaviour o.....
» 14/01/2011 9:18:46 AM Dan: Good point. I'll try to wriggle out of that one by saying that empiricism is more of .....
» 13/01/2011 6:45:55 PM There is a bit of a thin line that we're treading here. I was referring to Ridd's alluding.....
» 13/01/2011 5:18:18 PM Eyejaw An ongoing discourse on improving the scientific system is appropriate. No apolog.....
» 13/01/2011 3:47:46 PM Peter Ridd: I can't find a definition of "broken" with which the word "slig.....
» 11/01/2011 8:49:56 PM GrahamY and others interested: As I said, I'm not an expert in this area, but reasonably w.....
» 11/01/2011 2:10:07 PM Don Aitkin: Personally, I would prefer a consistent policy on code-names- either all-on or.....
» 11/01/2011 9:57:13 AM John Nicol- I thought that part of the reason for code-names in OLO was to keep the focus .....
» 10/01/2011 2:34:43 PM As a fellow physicist, I am embarrassed by Ridd's article. It is writing like this that wi.....
» 25/11/2010 10:28:07 AM My last post was not meant to denigrate solar, but to try to put some perspective and prop.....
» 25/11/2010 7:47:12 AM The basic question to ask regarding solar energy (including photovoltaics-PVs), is what is.....
» 12/11/2010 5:40:52 PM .... continued Although it seems that Graham is trying to uphold these basic notion of e.....
» 12/11/2010 5:39:54 PM When I first contributed to OLO, I thought that it was a great idea- a place where authors.....
» 7/11/2010 10:05:40 PM Absolutely, Susan! I get tired of scanning "the media" (bits, photons and pulp).....
» 7/11/2010 8:14:21 PM .... (as I was saying) Information wants to be free, as Gerry Garcia once famously said. .....
» 7/11/2010 8:12:17 PM It's great that we're starting to get down and dirty on values. Like in RL, it takes a whi.....
» 28/10/2010 6:48:11 PM Thank you, Martin N. You are clearly are on top of this issue. I also agree with your an.....
» 28/10/2010 10:47:29 AM Mark/Curmudgeon I don't think that we are as far apart as your rhetorical style is trying.....
» 28/10/2010 10:23:15 AM Thanks, Martin N, for getting the conversation back on track. I look forward to reading yo.....
» 27/10/2010 8:46:34 PM Leo It is not difficult to find these figures - just google "human CO2 emissions. Th.....
» 26/10/2010 4:09:51 PM First, I generally agree with Ken Fabos' comments. Now Mark: There are a number of intert.....
» 26/10/2010 9:03:41 AM An interesting analysis, Mark. While agreeing with your data on the causes of recent power.....
» 15/10/2010 8:32:57 AM Amicus I assume that your reference to "jedigirl" is to me. I can only construe.....
» 14/10/2010 9:35:41 AM Amicus - You condemn yourself with your own words. If you are really interested in anythi.....
» 14/10/2010 7:15:52 AM The focus on blogger vitriol could be seen as an "emergent property" of the chao.....
» 14/10/2010 7:13:04 AM The above post was supposed to go to Graham Y's essay on "OLO- the Next Iteration&quo.....
» 14/10/2010 7:06:58 AM The focus on blogger vitriol could be seen as an "emergent property" of the chao.....
» 12/10/2010 10:49:25 AM Here we go again, with another fruitless-if not intellectually corrosive- debate on climat.....
» 12/10/2010 7:52:21 AM OLO must flourish- there are too few decent forums in Australia. Graham- the donation sit.....
» 15/09/2010 1:01:47 PM When people use phrases like "brutal reality" or "ferocious opposition".....
» 13/09/2010 6:14:26 PM Well said, Geoff. Some OLO-ers treat the Forum as though it were their personal cyber-graf.....
» 13/09/2010 11:43:03 AM A thought provoking input. The Jevons paradox can be seen in energy use statistics (US E.....
» 7/09/2010 10:26:49 AM This is a most disturbing article. On the one hand we all share the author's hope for limi.....
» 10/08/2010 10:27:14 AM It is not surprising that the ABC audience and perhaps its presenters have a leaning to th.....
» 3/08/2010 3:25:44 PM Peter As that old empiricist Bunyip Bluegum would say, "the proof of the pudding is .....
» 3/08/2010 1:04:12 PM Peter At his stage of my metaphorical evening, I only have flat beer and the only dancing .....
» 2/08/2010 5:24:55 PM Peter I am not ready to concede anything, yet- particularly if your language continues to.....
» 2/08/2010 11:15:21 AM As I've said before, productivity has tracked at about 2%/yr for more than a century. If w.....
» 2/08/2010 11:11:42 AM Graham, Peter Your thoughtful contributions are a credit to OLO. So our issue is not the.....
» 30/07/2010 5:28:52 PM Peter Hume Quid pro quo, I will concede that I haven't demonstrated conclusively that gov.....
» 30/07/2010 1:27:18 PM Graham Y Perhaps I should have said "businesslike" - you have a mandate, a budge.....
» 30/07/2010 11:44:15 AM Insightful article, Leigh. I think that it was Arthur Calwell who said that "time pay.....
» 29/07/2010 10:37:55 PM Peter Hume Thanks for taking the effort in such a civil tone. Your analysis breaks down .....
» 29/07/2010 6:45:24 PM Atman You state: "But it just isn't true. Carbon is basically harmless,let alone the.....
» 29/07/2010 4:51:03 PM Peter Hume My cursor hovered over the "red cross", but I decided that "The.....
» 29/07/2010 10:19:08 AM Loxton I am in full agreement with you. This is not "Red Faces"- it's potential.....
» 28/07/2010 1:41:37 PM To err is human... I meant to thank GlenC for his kind comments about my contributions. .....
» 28/07/2010 1:26:26 PM Peter Hume I'll ignore the small lapse into derisive comment and focus on your substantive.....
» 27/07/2010 10:48:05 PM Graham It's not about "recommending comments for deletion"- it's about lifting t.....
» 27/07/2010 10:03:53 PM Graham I, for one, am not questioning the even-handedness of OLO- that is, your endeavours.....
» 27/07/2010 9:14:32 AM Amicus To misquote Maggie Thatcher- this man is not for squirming. Your response exempli.....
» 26/07/2010 11:17:53 PM Amicus I reflected on whether to withdraw from the debate, given the vitriol being projec.....
» 26/07/2010 5:34:44 PM rpg:Your statement "I wonder who did release the emails into the wild, you see I sus.....
» 26/07/2010 2:52:46 PM Spindoc Clearly, you have looked into the CRU situation much deeper than I have. There ar.....
» 25/07/2010 9:51:18 PM to the absent rpg I'm sorry to se that you're quitting just as things were getting intere.....
» 25/07/2010 10:23:17 AM rpg I have read enough of the CRU emails to understand that they are what they were inten.....
» 24/07/2010 6:05:30 PM Dear rpg The psychological term for your latest contribution is "projection": .....
» 24/07/2010 3:04:28 PM Pelican I think that the article is saying that most countries are now about as energy ef.....
» 24/07/2010 1:12:39 PM Dear Fellow Human Let me take you away from this land of Humpty Dumpty and cucumbers made.....
» 23/07/2010 4:18:31 PM Amicus Whereas Hume commits the follies of rhetoric, you seem to be prey to the follies o.....
» 23/07/2010 2:50:29 PM Peter Hume Shall I continue? Rhetorical device #5- false assumptions. Where did I say, o.....
» 23/07/2010 1:38:05 PM Peter Hume After being chided by our good moderator, Graham, for comparing the faux-lord .....
» 23/07/2010 12:13:16 PM Pelican I think we need to distinguish between facts and values before we make our decisi.....
» 23/07/2010 11:37:55 AM An interesting article, Malcolm, but, flawed, I feel, through a lack of attention to basic.....
» 21/07/2010 5:18:20 PM Pelican The are are many problems associated with the food miles concept, the major one b.....
» 19/07/2010 10:24:01 AM Thanks, Alan Davies, for bringing some sense into this conversation. I think that you lay .....
» 17/06/2010 11:16:39 AM Articles like this do nothing to improve the reputation of OLO. Mere ranting and slagging .....
» 11/05/2010 11:57:18 AM A timely article, Peter, especially in the light of recent economic events and offshore oi.....
» 9/03/2010 10:41:30 AM A thoughtful paper, Cameron, deserving of considered response by the authors of AERA. Tha.....
» 7/03/2010 11:09:25 PM rpg Your utterances are totally offensive and have no have place in any civil discourse.If.....
» 7/03/2010 4:21:16 PM Hasbeen ..and your comments add more data points to support my hypothesis that the anti-AG.....
» 7/03/2010 2:25:26 PM Now, now, Whitmus! Your language is just giving me more data points for my hypothesis. Bu.....
» 6/03/2010 3:21:20 PM Amicus That's a great response! I rest my case. George Lakoff called it "framing".....
» 6/03/2010 2:35:16 PM Big (Flat Earth) news: the IPCC is not perfect and the peer review process is not perfect!.....
» 5/03/2010 11:47:17 AM Leo Lane It looks as though Overlord Monckton has trained his Imperial Stormtroopers well.....
» 5/03/2010 8:21:47 AM Bazz Are you really interested in trying to advance your understanding of this vexing pro.....
» 3/03/2010 4:09:04 PM Phoenix94 Try going to some of the original sources rather than relying exclusively on dai.....
» 1/03/2010 2:00:52 PM rstuart I agree that "trying to trace the flows of carbon through the labyrinth of co.....
» 1/03/2010 11:03:51 AM GrahamY "There must be some serious academic or industry work around about this, and .....
» 1/03/2010 9:18:38 AM GrahamY and rstuart We are now getting closer to the heart of the matter. I raised the i.....
» 1/03/2010 8:42:33 AM Raycom Please! Just hit a few more keys before retailing the Jones furphy. This took me al.....
» 27/02/2010 10:09:21 PM ....continued... But no one seems to care about the fundamentals. Maybe it's just me. I tr.....
» 27/02/2010 10:08:42 PM Dear BB I actually watched BO's State of the Union address- I was alarmed by the simple-m.....
» 27/02/2010 3:30:16 PM Bush Bunny You said: "Now he was known to talk about an impending ice age back in 19.....
» 27/02/2010 1:40:33 PM rpg Consistent with many who deny AGW, you claim that cries for you to show evidence for y.....
» 27/02/2010 5:14:03 AM Raycom Read my posting- go to RealClimate.org. If you dare. RPG- that is the classical s.....
» 26/02/2010 10:04:46 PM Raycom How on earth can you make such a statement in the light of so much detailed debate?.....
» 25/02/2010 10:46:19 AM Great piece, Brian! It's good to see a bit of physics thrown into the discourse, albeit wi.....
» 19/02/2010 8:59:10 AM Arthur: an incomplete list of your hyperboles includes:"trumpeted", "rash&q.....
» 17/02/2010 2:01:44 PM An interesting article, Arthur- for the number of important issues that it raises. It's a .....
» 9/02/2010 12:52:59 PM Bazz Every major public issue attracts "activists" or "conviction people&qu.....
» 4/02/2010 1:06:53 PM I agree entirely with Peter on the need for support for "non-project" funding of.....
» 1/02/2010 11:32:53 AM I heartily agree with Chris Golis concluding comment: "Australia needs the entreprene.....
» 1/02/2010 10:23:24 AM Chris has provided a useful starting point for a thorough-going discussion on this importa.....
» 31/01/2010 11:13:43 AM It is interesting to see how this particular forum is evolving. Monckton has catalysed a p.....
» 28/01/2010 9:53:19 AM Don't worry Arjay I saw him at lunchtime. Reminded me of another Scotsman- Shakespeare's .....
» 26/01/2010 11:08:32 AM For those bloggers who prefer to take their data neat, it's hard to go past the Website Re.....
» 25/01/2010 12:11:35 PM Once again, Leo Lane's contribution gives weight to my hypothesis that there are two cultu.....
» 23/01/2010 7:45:47 PM Amicus Thank you for that information re Monckton’s sponsors. I am interested to note that.....
» 23/01/2010 1:03:08 PM Q&A I've tried to find out who is sponsoring Monckton- it seems like it's ad hoc with Pli.....
» 22/01/2010 3:32:54 PM Well said, Geoff. One would assume that most OLO-ers could understand what you have writte.....
» 18/01/2010 12:28:52 PM Amicus I was hoping that the Editor might elucidate on the matter of the contributions th.....
» 18/01/2010 10:29:42 AM For OLO-ers who may be interested in how the debate on this article is shaping up (and bef.....
» 13/01/2010 10:18:45 AM Dear Amicus If you are to criticize Wikipedia, then you are implicitly criticizing the OL.....
» 13/01/2010 8:02:14 AM Does membership have its privileges? The brief bio of Monckton on OLO states: Christophe.....
» 11/01/2010 3:30:07 PM Dear Phoenix94 The tone of your response vindicates my comments and those of Agnostic. .....
» 31/12/2009 2:31:53 PM Blogger Hasbeen demonstrates the point I was trying to make in my previous blog- another d.....
» 31/12/2009 11:55:20 AM Yet another depressing display of OLO's best and worst. Glikson has endeavored to present .....
» 18/12/2009 7:49:03 AM Shadow Minister Thank you for bringing these purported errors to my attention- although I .....
» 17/12/2009 8:28:57 AM Dear Shadow Minister: Just wishing it will not make it so. If you care to follow reasoned .....
» 16/12/2009 1:25:07 PM I have been reading comments for many years about the imminent fast breeder reactors that .....
» 10/08/2009 10:54:02 AM Nicholson's article has added nothing to this important discussion other than his own opin.....
» 4/08/2009 12:21:44 PM Roger Pielke clearly expresses a concern that I have been trying to make for years- wishin.....
» 3/08/2009 11:06:26 AM Thanks, Shadow Minister, for quoting a reliable source of information. It's good to infuse.....
» 3/08/2009 10:31:22 AM A good summary of the present state of affairs in electrical storage, Jon. What seems to .....
» 31/07/2009 8:41:05 PM At the risk of repeating myself- perhaps I'll paraphrase myself: Rather than making asser.....
» 30/07/2009 9:50:54 AM Dear jfarmer9: Asserting, without supporting evidence, that someone is a lier, is essentia.....
» 29/07/2009 5:02:11 PM While the OLO Boards may have some particular political leanings, I have seen no evidence .....
» 27/07/2009 3:32:48 PM Kenny- In the spirit of maintaining INFORMED opinion in OLO, could you please cite your in.....
» 27/07/2009 11:58:15 AM All issues of the military and chemical dangers of uranium aside, the basic numbers for a .....
» 13/07/2009 12:18:43 PM You make some very good points, John. Although curricula are notoriously difficult to chan.....
» 1/07/2009 12:57:51 PM Subsidies can be justified for 1) special needs 2) Research, 3) Demonstration or 4) achiev.....
» 1/07/2009 10:30:24 AM Consider this: Australia's present electricity generating capacity is about 50 GW. This i.....
» 4/03/2009 5:59:07 PM Bruce- I don't agree with your view that the economy is so dynamic that it needs fine tuni.....
» 3/03/2009 10:48:50 AM Saul has provided a useful and balanced summary of the main issues now being debated. But .....
» 26/02/2009 11:41:26 AM An excellent summary, Peter. As to why these socio-economic paradigm shifts approximately .....
» 24/02/2009 10:26:07 AM I guess that the PV enthusiasts who are availing themselves of the Feds $8000 rebate are s.....
» 23/02/2009 12:41:07 PM Well said, Ross! I continue my plea for INFORMED opinion, not just unsubstantiated opinio.....
» 20/02/2009 7:11:08 PM There is clearly a lot of misconceptions and mis-information about PVs- and nuclear power......
» 20/02/2009 10:58:42 AM Ross's essay is a useful summary of the "average punter's" view of renewable ene.....
» 13/02/2009 10:44:52 AM I am reflexively wary of all “isms” as the declaration that “I am a Xist” or “I am a follo.....
» 12/02/2009 5:06:47 PM Dear Pericles Thank you for your contribution, which, I consider, illustrates the point I .....
» 12/02/2009 10:35:46 AM Andrew- I hope that your insightful article starts a discourse on OLO that goes beyond the.....
» 24/01/2009 10:05:27 AM CJ Morgan I agree wholeheartedly- and whole-headedly- with you.I think that most OLO posti.....
» 23/01/2009 11:05:11 AM Lawson seems to be using the old John Howard/ George W Bush trick: If we can't be absolute.....
» 22/01/2009 9:47:00 AM David, you said: "It is a pity that comments cannot be made before an article is writ.....
» 16/01/2009 6:47:00 PM Davly It's a pity that you have resorted to sarcasm. I thought that we were getting along .....
» 16/01/2009 2:28:57 PM Davly- my heart goes out to you. Many of the OLO responses validate your third point- they.....
» 15/01/2009 12:02:36 PM Great little thought-piece. Well done!Giving a reason for why we are not reasonable sounds.....
» 12/12/2008 4:51:59 PM Faustino Thanks for your considered opinion. Golis' book is a good guide to financing vent.....
» 12/12/2008 9:25:52 AM While it is essential to create and encourage a socio-economic environment in which ideas .....
» 11/12/2008 5:53:18 PM Ergas says :"Firms have every incentive to minimise unnecessary costs and there is li.....
» 5/12/2008 11:07:08 AM REMCO If you read my posting properly, you would see that I did not say that Ergas is una.....
» 5/12/2008 10:16:00 AM I'm surprised that an economist as esteemed as the author would ignore the fundamental con.....
» 2/12/2008 10:04:52 AM While I agree that the principal cause of the present dilemma is the inflation of asset pr.....
» 28/11/2008 10:41:11 AM I trust that we are not going to invoke the wrath of revenge feminists by our contribution.....
» 27/11/2008 7:28:09 PM AJFA You said "Jedimaster, I cannot believe you have asked that after I discussed Fu.....
» 27/11/2008 9:47:33 AM AJFA and SHADOW MINISTER Your utterances prove my point about uninformed opinion.The use .....
» 26/11/2008 10:18:17 AM The only positive thing I can say about Bertrand's article is that it comprehensively summ.....
» 17/11/2008 9:56:29 AM ATSE and Robin Batterham should be commended for making such a reasoned contribution to th.....
» 6/11/2008 10:20:59 AM Some good food for thought and discussion points. However,more analysis is needed to put i.....
» 3/11/2008 1:08:04 PM Interesting article, Susan. But I am not sure that you have really made the distinction be.....
» 23/10/2008 11:49:07 AM I agree with the basic thrust of the paper, which is about EROI and net energy analysis (N.....
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