Randall Parker at FuturePundit has a post on superconducting power cables, in which he notes their benefits over copper: Superconductor power cables can carry three to five times the power of conventional copper cables. Compact, underground superconductor cables can be used to expand capacity and direct power flows at strategic points on the electric power …
This morning I’ve also updated my links list, most notably correcting the egregious absence of Robert Prather, Catallarchy, and Catallaxy Files from my list. But it’s an illustration of the cognitive process at work — you start seeing new links and references, you build up the frequency with which you visit them by clicking through …
BTW, I forgot to mention in light of Steve Verdon’s successful homemade cranberry sauce experience that I have been making homemade cranberry sauce for years, with this recipe: 1 bag cranberries 3/4 c. orange juice 1 1/2 c. sugar 2 T freshly grated orange rind Boil until the skins on the cranberries split. Skim foam …
With thanks to Virginia Postrel for the link, here is the Technology Review Blog, the weblog of Technology Review magazine. I love this magazine because it showcases how creative and visionary people can be. So please do pay them a visit and welcome them to the block!
Via my friend Ann, this most recent Cecil Adams Straight Dope column on ethanol. He’s apparently done his reading, as he references some of the academic and policy literature in his comments. And he doesn’t mind naming names: The immediate beneficiaries of ethanol subsidies have been corn farmers and, more significantly, the Archer Daniels Midland …
The good folks at Progress & Freedom Foundation are all over the FCC VOIP proceedings. I encourage interested parties to start with Kent Lassman’s summary of the proceedings, and then scroll up for further commentary. From Kent’s conclusion: The real issue is not over the size of the sandbox controlled by state or federal regulators. …
I think VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) is one of the most thrilling technological advances of the past two years. It really hammers home the idea that no monopoly, however natural the regulators think it is, is etched in stone unless the regulators and the monopolists want it to be. Technological change creates contestability, which …
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is available at Hobbsonline. If the permalink doesn’t work, go to his homepage and scroll down. Robert Prather’s comments on a Paul Craig Roberts column on steel tariffs contain a very important nugget to remember about the process of economic growth: When this country was founded 19 out of …
In my getting back on the turnip cart this morning I’ve been perusing lots of things. Among the more intriguing are recent Futurepundit posts by Randall Parker, including this post on the role of choline in memory enhancement. The interesting thing about this finding is that it takes a month of high choline intake to …
Boy, I fell off the turnip cart pretty hard last week … teaching, having a paper to finish by last night to present on Friday at my alma mater, having my in-laws here for Thanksgiving. I even worked for a few hours in between turkey making chores on Thursday. So I was not the best …
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