Rabett Run

Continuing to track the Ukraine war and related events in Europe, I read an article this week about some Eastern European countries returning to the use of land mines, and as an aside they threw this in about border roads: "They also aim to plant trees...

Greetings, long-ignored friends! I've been scratching the writing itch elsewhere but felt this is a good place for thoughts occasioned by Musk's ethical decline. It was triggered by finishing Isaacson's biography. (Summary review if you want to skip...

Among my broken-record themes is that the energy-storage solution of pumped hydropower is trivial compared to the potential value of dispatchable hydropower - that is, to stop treating hydro as a baseload energy to be released on a constant basis, and...

Alex Tabarrock has a beef against modern dishwashers, that they take too long (something they do in order to conserve water and energy). Unfortunately an appellate court (two Trumps and a Bush) took the same position. Alex could've simply stuck with...