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Yawning China dominates Bitcoin mining with cheap baseload electricity: Canada can help
Category: Electricity
Green energy, the Green Party, and Germany’s governance crisis: the McGuinty Syndrome?
Dalton McGuinty, Ontario’s most recent former premier, might have in mid-2011 whispered a rueful warning to German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the political wisdom of green energy: “note the world values survey when it comes to paying money to help…
The Iron Chancellor and the Iron Rule: Merkel struggles to explain reality to game-theorizing Greens
Angela Merkel is as dexterous and tough in domestic affairs as Bismarck was in foreign affairs, so I mean no disrespect to her or any German when I give her Bismarck’s nickname The Iron Chancellor. I mean quite the opposite:…
Canadian federal anti-coal Crusader-in-Chief in Bonn: shooting at the host?
Why is Canada’s federal environment and climate change minister in Bonn, of all places, lecturing the world on how not to make electricity? Bonn, I will remind you, is in Germany (when I was growing up, it was the capital…
Bitcoin brute-force validation: made for nuclear power and—in Ontario—re-regulation of electricity
I would have thought the hard economics of Bitcoin mining would pretty much instantly rule out of contention the politically correct renewable energy darlings wind and solar as viable sources of the computing power—i.e., electrical power—that underpins the world’s biggest…