(FB 1548825829 Timestamp) The Jevons Paradox is why you do NOT TRY TO SAVE ELECTRICITY. Why? It merely increases the consumption of electricity and demand for increased production of electricity. At your most optimum, you will simply transfer cleaner electrical production domestically to uncleaner electrical production overseas. ECONOMICS IS COUNTER-INTUITIVE. All human behavior is best understood as hydraulic. Something here is always offset by something there.
Category: Economics, Finance, and Political Economy
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548825652 Timestamp) —“….as the energy efficiency of engines increases, markets [identify increased opportunities for their use, resulting in] increased overall energy use.”— Jevons Paradox longer version —-“Engines, both literally and figuratively, power the modern era. Engines matter because they convert otherwise useless forms of energy into useful work. And as the energy efficiency of engines increases, markets use more of them in more varied ways, which throughout history has resulted in increased overall energy use â a.k.a. the Jevons Paradox.”—
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548825829 Timestamp) The Jevons Paradox is why you do NOT TRY TO SAVE ELECTRICITY. Why? It merely increases the consumption of electricity and demand for increased production of electricity. At your most optimum, you will simply transfer cleaner electrical production domestically to uncleaner electrical production overseas. ECONOMICS IS COUNTER-INTUITIVE. All human behavior is best understood as hydraulic. Something here is always offset by something there.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548825652 Timestamp) —“….as the energy efficiency of engines increases, markets [identify increased opportunities for their use, resulting in] increased overall energy use.”— Jevons Paradox longer version —-“Engines, both literally and figuratively, power the modern era. Engines matter because they convert otherwise useless forms of energy into useful work. And as the energy efficiency of engines increases, markets use more of them in more varied ways, which throughout history has resulted in increased overall energy use â a.k.a. the Jevons Paradox.”—
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548901961 Timestamp) Remove power and data reduces a polity to cash economy, and a cash economy drains the cash reserves, causes bank runs and in the end reduction to a barter economy. This time of year, ninety days without continuous data, power, cash is unsurvivable for many tens of millions. The fourth meal is all it takes. Bring about demand for the fourth meal.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548873295 Timestamp) NO. YOU HAVE FAITH IN A FRAUD. NOT REASON. —“….libertarians believe….”— Libertarian Party 0) Everything you subsidize will increase in consumption thereby increasing the overall proportion of productivity used to consume it. The only question is whether like engines of the animal, mechanical or digital categories, they produce higher returns for doing so – or not. 1) Libertarianism persists fallen angel version of man vs the risen beast, slowly domesticated by the violent imposition of demand for reciprocity under that law we call tort. Findings of Law, Legislation, and Regulation do in fact limit scams and frauds. … and …. 2) … so the problem is not law, and regulation, but the inability of the consumer to judge the product delivered to him, and the use of redistribution to compensate those who engage in fraud that takes advantage of that ignorance. 3) This is an example of a common (infantlie) libertarian trope:that the consumer can possess sufficient information to avoid irreciprocity, and that the insurer of last resort should not force due diligence in the service of the market by those who might abuse asymmetry of info. 4) Jewish law, which is the source of left libertarianism, only enforces the demand for volition,and not warranty. European law, which is the source of liberalism, enforces reciprocity and warranty. There is a reason for the historical incompatibility, of the two ethical systems. 5) We are faced today with not only the difference between Anglo classical liberal and reciprocal, germanic reciprocal proportional, french authoritarian socialist proportional, jewish voluntary unwarrantied, but now Islamic Authoritarian irreciprocal law of conquest. 6) Libertarians are wrong. Whether they are wrong because they are infantile, or wrong because they have parasitic preferences is immaterial. There is only one source of liberty: sovereignty and reciprocity, truth and duty, the law of tort and jury, violence and defense. 7) Sovereignty exists in fact. Liberty by the permission of the sovereign. Freedom by the utility of the sovereign. And sovereignty has but one source, and that is the organized application of violence to deny all other alternatives. 8) Welcome to the revolution. Those who fight will have sovereignty not liberty or freedom. Those who do not fight will have none.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548901961 Timestamp) Remove power and data reduces a polity to cash economy, and a cash economy drains the cash reserves, causes bank runs and in the end reduction to a barter economy. This time of year, ninety days without continuous data, power, cash is unsurvivable for many tens of millions. The fourth meal is all it takes. Bring about demand for the fourth meal.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1549111936 Timestamp) I am getting increasingly comfortable with generating ‘a statistic’ in the 30-50M range. And that’s probably what’s necessary.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1549845254 Timestamp) “Fed is the name for angels of god in the minds of the infantilized.”
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1549845254 Timestamp) “Fed is the name for angels of god in the minds of the infantilized.”