"The UK’s high electricity prices are here to stay. But could they offer an opportunity?" Dr Renaud Foucart @rfoucart.bsky.social writes for @uk.theconversation.com 👇
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Electricity in the UK will not be cheap in the foreseeable future.
It will also largely be intermittent.
What if we had a bit of ambition and used this situation to do what we do best: services and innovation?
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Very attractive postdoc opportunity at the University of Padua. While the position is advertised as Econ, the group has strong interests in political economy and would consider seriously quant polisci students.
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No one knows how to end the US trade deficit, but those who failed all won something in return. Obama got energy independence. Biden a manufacturing revival. And Trump bullied his allies into submission. My latest in @uk.theconversation.com
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Are you a Dink, Alice or Henry?
@rfoucart.bsky.social writes about how social mobility is different for today’s young people in @uk.theconversation.com 👇
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Absolutely, and if population declines and technology does not improve that much, relative prices will change again. I am terrible at predictions but certainly not denying planetary limits
Long run is always the same impossible question -- here I'm humbly trying to explain relative price changes !
What it means to be middle class today is confusing because the relative price of stuff is totally different from previous generations. Me in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/are-you-a-di...
Solar & storage up
Emissions down
China's solar power *output* — the actual TWh delivered — up 43% year-on-year!
Energy *storage* growth now also exceeds demand growth.
And yes, China's overall CO₂ emissions are flat/down last year.
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"If you put an infinite number of the complete works of Shakespeare in a room, it will produce a single monkey"
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Just went on @france24.com to discuss how the French built a majority for the budget by all pretending to be in the opposition. (And to gossip about all the drama in the election for Paris mayor) www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
I wrote a piece in @uk.theconversation.com in the simplest words I know to explain to your grandma why, 3 years after chatGPT, employment remains at record low. And why what matters is how AI will affect how much of the money workers get, and how it is shared theconversation.com/why-ai-has-n...
Results of the new CfD allocation round is out. Is £91.20/MWh a burden that will impede electricity prices to go down, or an insurance that saves us when the next war bring prices up?
In ten years, a lot of people will shout "I told you so." Ignore them.
Not always a fan of the Guardian often sensasionalist science coverage, but this is the kind of moment when you can tell who is still in the realm of normal debate, and who is full on propaganda.
Well done to the Guardian
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Maybe, and a lot of self selection
No one will kill you in London, but if your phone is stolen the police will not look for it
London is young, vibrant, people take the risk
The rest of the country is increasingly old and scared, they hate it
Don't think it's much more complicated than that
Ils ont renoncé dès que c'est devenu concret. Et la presse belge est unanime pour défendre la lâcheté absolue sur les avoirs russes (je suis belge je peux le dire)
Being lost in a city
I was on Fr24 yesterday to discuss why French farmers are so poor when CAP is 25% of the EU budget and France #1 recipient -- and why it matters so much for the EU to sign trade deals to exist outside of the US-China bipolar world (Mercosur today, India in the coming weeks)
MTurker urgently need to pay for a premium version of Claude in order to provide credible answers to qualitative studies
Nooo I want an AI to do all the silly paperwork linked to managing the house. If I have a robot it will be in charge of tidying up, folding and managing the clothes. It can also deal with the garbage and fix objects.
I keep the fun stuff like cooking and playing with the kids
Agree but to be fair the framing "it will free households from chores" is infinitely better than whatever they did before. Concrete, not scary.
new vox dev piece on our recent RCT to counter misinformation in classrooms in india:
well, in Plato's Symposium the starting point is: "real love can only be between two grown up men, falling in love with a boy or a woman is second-rate love". The others are super defensive and try to say that love is an ideal and could even happen with a woman.
Et bien figurez-vous que de 1993 à 2003 la Belgique s'était arrogée en 1993 une "compétence universelle" qui aurait permis en théorie de faire cet enlèvement légalement -- abrogée parce que les belges ne se sentaient pas d'aller sortir Bush, Sharon, Castro, et Pinochet de leur lit
At the University of Alabama at Birmingham we had students protesting the module on evolutionary game theory on religious grounds. So we renamed it "the dynamic theory of games" and the students were none the wiser. >
Too bad -- I often think most of today's incel philosophy is just re-heated Pausanias from Plato's symposium
the published paper, yes - first think that came to mind when I saw the abstract
the wp (the one from my colleagues) is on a slightly different issue
I actually have colleagues working on it -- fun topic!
