tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post3342270231900271034..comments2024-03-28T09:55:42.123+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Crystal Balls to 2013CityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-25721305674522238272013-01-07T15:27:01.174+00:002013-01-07T15:27:01.174+00:00I love the fact that Germany is struggling with it...I love the fact that Germany is struggling with its own power grid. I remember when Heath decided to drag Britain into the EU because the Germans seemed to have it all sussed. Doesn't look like that now does it? The epicenter of the EU disaster spawned by Franco-German social democracy. <br /><br />Sadly, much as I would like to be able to claim that Britain will suddenly come to its senses and leave European politics behind in 2013, I think it will take at least another 10 years, but probably more like 30 years (if indeed there is still a "Britain" at that time). <br /> <br />Still, I'm loving the slow-motion inevitability of it all. It is not so much "if" the whole thing implodes so much as whether it will be while my generation are in charge or when my kids generation get their hands on the controls. So I'm buying pop-corn futures as I sit back and watch it all unfold.<br />Ryannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-18197772239615207732013-01-04T19:05:43.238+00:002013-01-04T19:05:43.238+00:00We shall observe with great interest, Nick. May I...We shall observe with great interest, Nick. May I say, [cough] that my own largely came to fruition in 2012 and I daren't speak of 2013.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-77113735833625227892013-01-04T16:59:57.623+00:002013-01-04T16:59:57.623+00:00go for it, Dick, there is glory to be had if you c...go for it, <b>Dick</b>, there is glory to be had if you can emulate budgie last year<br /><br /><b>BE</b> - Germany is the test-bed: they have installed so much wind and solar that grid-balancing issues often go critical<br /><br />how they got through 2012 without a really severe incident is a miracle - the German grid regulator (and everyone else in the know) thought it would happen<br /><br />as it was, they squeaked through with just some medium brown-outs, forcing industrial customers to interrupt, etc<br /><br />the voltage in some place on the German grid is seriously unreliable and factories that need steady volts are being forced to provide their own, which doesn't say much for a leading 21st century economy<br /><br />and things are getting worse by the month: & if it happens where I indicated (Bavaria), it will spill into FR, CH, AT, IT, all of which are heavily interconnected and inter-dependent<br /><br /><i><b>if</b></i> it happens, Lives Will Be Lost ...<br /><br />a bad way to discover the infeasibility of pandering to silly green plansNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-63665843060540244742013-01-04T13:40:02.903+00:002013-01-04T13:40:02.903+00:00Right - I didn't realise this was a proper com...Right - I didn't realise this was a proper comp so shall indeed fondle my balls and do a serious response over the weekend. <br /><br /> Just completely OT - but there's a nice little economic wheeze over on Alphaville (and, frankly, the commentards have jumped in to thoroughly disabuse the girl) but it's a lovely little vignette into future system management of government fundamentals which gives rise to a 3 pipe thinking game. Very nice.<br /><br />http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/01/02/1319583/on-the-new-purpose-of-government-debt/DtPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-78277325942994690072013-01-04T12:19:54.267+00:002013-01-04T12:19:54.267+00:00Interesting Telegraph blog, that. Kind of crystall...Interesting Telegraph blog, that. Kind of crystallises what I have been wondering about. Maybe it *is* possible to print new roads and railways. Maybe the SNB will build Crossrail 2 for us?<br /><br />I realise you are the expert and I am the pleb, but why are you so convinced that the whole of Europe is going to run out of electricity so imminently? Or are you expecting - cough - interruptions?Blue Eyesnoreply@blogger.com