AAAAAAnd breathe!

My apologies Robo and Tomo! Seems I got my T's and R's mixed up 😜

I made the mistake of not turning off the BBC news last night fast enough...actually, after listening to the Haiti report, where they were incredibly sure to be very neutral throughout the entire report the f88kers had lulled me in to a false sense of security.

Where things came unstuck was f00king gaza! Oh how they rolled out the crying children and the wailing mothers and the reports of them evil Jews attack Al Shifa hospital again because "Israel SAYS" its used by Hamas to plan and launch attacks...and then they moved on to Houthi's with a very solumn BBC voice over saying "the attacks ramped up after Israel and Hamas starting fighting" (no reason for what started the fighting) but when it came to someone saying who is behind the attacks (Iran) they left it up to the Aircraft carrier boss to state who was behind the attacks and funding the attacks...with the intent here to reduce the "truthfulness" of the statement because it was said by the US Navy guy and not the bbc.

Of course in Haiti there was no crying children or wailing mothers and no concern about the humanitarian crisis of not having a functioning f99king government and people being butchered on the streets by the gangs that now own the place. Naw, people might start asking what exactly the Clinton foundation was doing in Haiti all these years and for all those HUNDREDS of millions of dollars they sucked up for these people.

F99king BBC...raising my f99king blood pressure the dirty f88king a-holes!

MikeHig,
Thanks. That fleshes out some details missed in the comment I read at Jo Nova's. My thought process was that Sweden, now feeling vindicated by its against-the-tide action on COVID, feels brave enough to go their own way on energy. And thinking of the likely reaction of the western world led me to the word play.

Mailman,
Not sure whether to be needled by your attributing my brilliant wit to tomo, or relieved that you'll be blaming him for that stupid apostrophe in "abandons".

Have heard Katherine Birbalsingh on Brendan O'Neill's, and now I've heard her on John Anderson's. She put in a really good monologue at the end. When she'd finished, Anderson said there was nothing more needed to be said and ended the interview on a high note. Good call I reckon. Well worth listening to the last few minutes (the rest was good too).

Tomo said "But which party does "they" refer to?"

Yes, very good Tomo!! 🤣

Robert, Sweden is already going back to nuclear. In November 2023 the government announced plans to construct two large-scale reactors by 2035 and the equivalent of 10 new reactors, including small modular reactors, by 2045.

Didn't think much of the latest EconTalk. The guy was excited about "exponential growth" and was invoking Moore's Law on things like solar panels, batteries and AI. Obviously the world is finite — there can't be true exponential growth — Moore knew fine well that there was a physical limit to how small a transistor could conceivably be and the periodic density doubling was going to end.

And that's the interesting part: when will the "exponential" growth phase end, and what will come after? There are clear physicial limits to how much energy solar panels can capture and batteries can store. Unlike microscopic transistors in the '60s, both are built on well-established technologies. I don't think there's scope for *any* doublings. As for AI, the hype certainly skyrocketed for a few months, but seems already to be deflating.

Oh well. The occasional mediocre EconTalk helps me appreciate how good most of them are.

I enjoy a bit of word play and one struck me while reading this quoted at Jo Nova's:

For years, Sweden’s low electricity prices have been a direct consequence of the operation of the country’s nuclear and hydroelectric power plants

If Sweden abandon's its forays into wind and gets back to expanding nuclear generation I think it'll be a replay of their COVID policies: the Swedes are demonstrating to the western world that they are idiots. But which party does "they" refer to?