Thermodynamics is remorseless!
Petrol and diesel cars are powered by heat engines (internal combustion engines). ONLY 30-35% of the combustion heat is USEFUL
So […]
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Nick Hollinghurst
Working for social democracy and a greener world through the Liberal Democrats
Reform’s View of the World is Centuries Out of Date!
Richard Tice seems not even to have a grasp of secondary school science and has shown himself to be quite […]
Read more →The universalisation of Trumpism?
Is this a second – and more plausible – threat from AI?
Stephen Mihm from ‘Bloomberg Opinion’ wrote recently,
“The large language […]
Did Andy Burnham Crumble at the First Call from Trump?
Did Andy Burnham Crumble at the First Call from Trump?
Google AI based on a source in LinkedIn tells us,“On average, […]
How Many Warnings do you need?
For me the biggest news (of the week, if not the century!) was that on Monday the BBC at last […]
Read more →UK’s Railfreight Faltering in the face of New Government Targets.
The UK Government target is to increase railfreight by 75% by 2050, with an annual growth of 7.5%.
Looking at the […]
Congestion on Britain’s Rail Routes needs to be Unblocked!
Once a rail route has been identified as being “congested”, then Network Rail is obliged to provide a solution to […]
Read more →Eisenhower’s role in Managing the Post-Surrender Transition in Germany was just as important as his Leadership on the Battlefield.
In 1945 there was a plan.
After the German forces surrendered there was a 4-party occupation (though not appropriate in Iran, […]
PETER HEGSMITH AND HIS ROBOT AGENTS ARE WATCHING YOU – OR WILL BE SOON!
Yesterday I wrote, “Pressure is building for extra power stations to help out AI techbros, and with the cost put […]
Read more →AI (2) The very many early days of AI.
AI has already had a long and spasmodic history of development so far.
Inspired by Alan Turing’s speculative essay of 1950, […]