Checks paid by robots. Climate reparations from the cemetery. Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives 2nd Edition by Vaclav Smil. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in a realistic appraisal of the current state of energy transitions in various nations and regions and the likely future development of the global energy supply.
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The Twitter Files
New at the Belmont Club. The autocrats take no prisoners. How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future, Kindle Edition by Vaclav Smil. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on, Vaclav Smil explains the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity – from energy and …
What is money?
New at the Belmont Club. One gold ring to rule them all, and in the network bind them.
The Greatest Trick
New at the Belmont Club. Which vision will rule the world?
Miracle, mystery and authority
New at the Belmont Club. I review my own article on religion and The Great Reset
The problem with nuclear power is it works
Trust but verify
New at the Belmont Club. Solving the institutional trust problem is the secret to rebooting our information civilization.
New book
Got an author’s copy of Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order of which I contributed. Featuring Essays by:Michael AntonSalvatore BabonesConrad BlackJeremy BlackAngelo CodevillaJanice FiamengoRichard FernandezDavid P. GoldmanVictor Davis HansonMartin HutchinsonRoger KimballAlberto MingardiDouglas MurrayJames PoulosHarry SteinJohn TierneyMichael Walsh
Chance can f with a Biden
New at the Belmont Club. We need to be lucky in the coming days.
The shadow of the past
New at the Belmont Club. The Ukraine war brings back memories from before we were Woke.
The third term
New at the Belmont Club. The Obama era mindset’s time has passed. But does Biden know?
Nothing in the box
New at the Belmont Club. When disinformation is nothing but lies all the way down.
It lives on in our minds
New at the Belmont Club. The empire that was dissolved but would not die.
Fail unsafe
New at the Belmont Club. Enormous power controlled by a single key.
The battle of the black boxes
New at the Belmont Club. Institutions will prefer that you fear their black box if you won’t believe it.
The age of idols
What happens when ‘trust the experts’ gets worn out by politics? Why invoke ‘trust the expert systems’ of course. When you have no credibility of your own, create an idol.
The illusion of control
New at the Belmont Club. A theory of victory that relies on unleashing chaos may have no winners.
Disaster in the rear view mirror
New at the Belmont Club. How what looked like Obama’s third term became a nightmare ride.
Meme War ‘Z’
New at the Belmont Club. Every civilization experiences an invasion of True Believers. It’s the West’s turn.
Woke sorcery
New at the Belmont Club. Where do magic and bad luck come from?