Yes I did. It really doesn't help that an engineer seems to be using the wrong figures. NZ is a windy place but to make the most of that the placing of the wind generators need to be planned across the entire country and not just random bit here and random...
As I say, industry does itself no favours when it presents ideological BS.
Well in that case I reject any and all sources you may care to provide on the grounds that you've selected only the ones that suit your negative argument. You way of mentioning reputable industry experts was your way of dismissing the scientific report ...
They are, of course, using hyperbole to get across what they want without actually saying it which is the removal of regulations. What's needed is an update of regulations taking into account the knowledge gained on the subject over the last few decades. ...
And that the only places that have seriously embraced SWB, such as Germany, have seen electricity prices (and net CO2) rise dramatically. citation needed that proves causation
And I'm sure that the study quoted was done by reputable scientists who didn't have an industry bias. The question of which to believe comes down to the actions of those in industry over the last few decades that have proven such sources to be less than ...
And no you don't offer any proven alternative to replace it. Except that I have in the form of coops which have proven themselves quite successful. A market system without the capitalists.
I don't think hydrogen will ever run trucks. When you can simply plug them in at night. Or, even better, put them in a train with a constant power supply from the rails. I expect at some stage roads will supply the power for trucks. By induction? Trains ...
But if we ever get serious about going zero emission, there's tens or hundreds of thousands of mobile power stations putting out power 24/7 in the range of 5MW to 100MW, that currently burn the nastiest dirtiest leftovers of the petroleum supply chain. ...
Nuclear fission power is not only the safest known energy source, it's the most reliable and has EROI's in excess of 50. What is the EROI of nuclear power? Excited by this, I looked to corroborate the numbers. Looking on Wikipedia, I found these numbers ...
China not in the RCEP citation?
... Zealand’s wind patterns don’t provide that and wind is... that PV systems generate won’t be plagued by pollution, greenhouse... for our needs that didn’t keep those places in high...
I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with the banks creating money and then charging interest on it.
Given that we don't get to run the experiment double blind controlled, I'd suggest we have to go with the remarkable correlation. Nope. If people were innovative before capitalism then it wasn't capitalism that caused innovation. It's generally accepted ...
The New Zealand Labour won't be batting for these workers any time soon….no that party of middle class wankers stopped being even pretending to be a workers party long long ago. QFT
Growers simply have to face the new reality, negotiate with the Kiwi workforce and their representatives or go broke. It may be that they'll do both. NZ labour simply cannot compete with the cheap labour offshore. Time for change? Definitely time for a ...
The simple undeniable truth is that in the era of capitalism, the world has become in total far more prosperous, healthy and peaceful than it ever has been. And no one has proved that it was capitalism that brought about that prosperity. All we have is ...
We shared their concern about unsustainable government spending, and we supported some tea-party groups on that issue Government spending isn't unsupportable. In fact, its government spending that empowers the economy. What's unsustainable is private ...
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Historically fiat currencies fail, So have all the Gold Standard currencies. In fact, they failed far faster than the fiat currencies.
I am saying if they are to do it, at least use the 'invisible hand' to avoid hyperinflation. You don't seem to know what the invisible hand is. Its the free, unregulated, market which is what has brought all the problems that we have.
You seem to imply it is ok to print money to match an increase in goods. Printing money is bad full stop. Without printing money to cover the increase in goods and to cover the loss of money to savings (profits) then we'd see deflation and the economy ...
A government, paying it's employees printed money get's nothing back. That's an outright lie. The government paying its employees gets productive work done. Each week the pool of money grows and material goods do not increase so all material goods are ...
It used to be that printing money was attached to reality by the 'invisible hand' where money loaned was for the creation of physical goods e.g. a house. Not really. Adam Smith was working in a Gold Standard environment not a Fiat Currency environment. He...
We do, yes, and it was around before John Key. The problem is that it is, and always has been, nearly impossible to enforce.
Or the government could make first home buyer loans as 0% down, 0% interest and repayments at an agreed rate or 25% income - whichever is the lesser.
The situation requires the PM to deal with an emerging crisis. It's a crisis that's been in place for the better part of twenty years so, no, its not an emerging crisis. Its a systemic condition of capitalism. And the PM is on record as having said that ...
Labour leveraged the housing crisis to great effect while in opposition, but prices have continued to soar since it took power. IIRC, National did the same thing. As I say, both National and Labour seem to like the house price hyper-inflation and aren't ...
Yeah, such childish tantrums when they don't get their way seems to be typical of the right-wing.
American cheque fraud issues are not ours and are irrelevant. No, its not irrelevant. The point is that cheque fraud is a major problem. And no there was not widespread fraud here when cheques where more widely used. Is suspect that you have no more ...
If the complainants experienced that, it's a serious matter. That would be a serious matter but how would that affect the vote count? Will be interesting to see if the vote count changes… It's inevitable that the vote count will change as they're counted ...
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