Japanese government debt | Lenz Blog
Update: I recall Kyle Bass’s words: “Japan spends 50% of its tax revenues today on debt service today, of which half is interest… if interest rates move… 2%, their debt service will exceed their revenue.” Prof. Lenz writes that there’s really nothing to worry about: Japan Times reports that the sum of central and local government [...]
New Take on Impacts of Low Dose Radiation « Berkeley Lab News Center
I first heard about the LNT (linear non-threshold theory) of the health effects of radiation exposure via Prof. Lenz’s blog (I couldn’t find a search function on the blog, but here are a couple of items that came up in a Yahoo search: Bernard Cohen on LNT junk science and Nobuo Ikeda on LNT and [...]
Effizienzhaus plus: German electric vehicle house | Lenz Blog
Prof. Lenz blogs indefatigably on the subject of solar energy production and other alternatives or emerging energy technologies. It’s all fascinating stuff, the stuff of dreams. Here’s just one recent extract. I learned that “inductive charging” means having your electric vehicle charge automatically, eliminating the need to mess around with cables. You just park it [...]
Costs of switching nuclear off | Lenz Blog
Prof. Lenz has some interesting things to say about the Fukushima nuclear crisis. As there is so much hyperventilating blogging going on (anxiety and unease sell, and they are also somewhat addictive), I like to read alternative views. Here’s a selection: New York Times has an excellent article about some of the damage to the [...]
Not the dumbest NYT article ever | Lenz Blog
Regarding the Speedi data fiasco, Prof. Lenz has some useful comments. It’s a short blog entry and I’ll re-post it in its entirety. But it comes close. The irrational fear crowd just got big play in the New York Times. They make a lot of noise about the fact that the SPEEDI computer simulation data [...]
#Fukushima Teacher Pressured to Resign Over His Effort to Protect Children from “Invisible Snake” (Radiation) | EX-SKF
We humans are so susceptible to words. First read this headline (and the article, if you want). Sounds like a clear-cut case, doesn’t it? Teacher tries to warn his students about radiation risks. School authorities don’t like it because it “creates fear/panic” (the big no-no). Teacher “quits”, or was he pushed? Fukushima Teacher Muzzled on [...]
