Advocating Very Fast Train travel for Australia
The possibility of one or more Very Fast Train (VFT) lines for Australia has been debated for more than 40 years, most often being treated...
Nuclear power – nirvana or nonsense?
The federal Coalition's adoption of a policy involving government-owned construction of 7 nuclear power plants around Australia has raised an argument that most people thought...
Is Trump a blessing in disguise for world peace?
Let's first agree that if Trump is a blessing in disguise for world peace, he makes an exceptionally good disguise. Trump's bark is probably the...
Six tough institutional challenges this century
In 1900, the modern nation states of Europe faced many challenges in terms of how they were run, with poverty and disease still prevalent. The...
The logic of the inevitable (nuclear) apocalypse. Can the Gods save us?
The probability of a massive nuclear war the next 10 years between any of the 8 current nuclear powers (US, UK, France, Russia, India, Pakistan,...
To overcome commonsense, and at the same time, to be wrong
As Orwell put it “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” At least in economics one of the things that...
A dash for the deserts? What the solar revolution could lead to.
One of the best pieces of scientific news the last decades has been the spectacular improvements in solar energy generation. The current world price was...