Le bien commun est d’autant plus nécessaire que des approches scientifiques (équilibre de Nash) et des expériences pratiques (crise des surprimes) ont démontré que la poursuite de l’intérêt individuel ne coïncide pas avec l’intérêt général
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Another list of good pieces of advice.
Via Management craft
Où l’on apprend que non seulement le pétrole, mais
Le cuivre, le zinc, l’or et l’uranium figurent parmi les principaux métaux dont les ressources mondiales semblent en voie d’épuisement.
Tiens, le nucléaire, énergie pas chère du futur….
En quoi pic pétrolier et pics des métaux sont-ils liés ?
Tout simplement parce que pour creuser des mines, il faut de l’énergie. Beaucoup d’énergie.
Bien appropriée citation de Say qui illustre l’impasse dans laquelle nous nous sommes engagés :
“Les ressources naturelles sont inépuisables, car sans cela nous ne les obtiendrions pas gratuitement. Ne pouvant être ni multipliées, ni épuisées, elles ne sont pas l’objet des sciences économiques” - Jean-Baptiste Say, Cours d’économie politique pratique, 1815.
The somewhat extremist Flemish minister for internal affairs released an update of the integration leaflet for foreigners. A few nuggets spotted by Le Soir.
The leaflet is written in English and Dutch, (not so) suprisingly not in French.
Transparent solar panels could replace your windows.
German startup company Heliatek are testing their flexible, transparent solar panels which could one day be built into houses to act as power-generating windows.
The panels are only able to convert around 8% of available energy into electricity, compared with around 12-17% for traditional solar panels, but the company claims that they are able to make up for that by providing better performance in low light and high heat to provide almost the same energy production overall.
The technology works by depositing a layer of organic molecules on polyester films, in a similar way to how OLED displays are produced.
The company recently started making a small amount of panels on a “proof of concept” production line, and say that within four to five years the cost should come down to around 40 to 50 cents per watt, which will make them competitively priced compared to conventional solar panels. The new technology would also work out cheaper to install in new houses, as opposed to having to install windows as well as conventional solar panels on the roof.
Bouncing on what Jeremy Rifkin writes in the Third Industrial Revolution: get energy everywhere it’s possible, i.e. all around us.
And as as Rifkin mentions this in his talks and interviews, little surprise this innovation comes from Germany.
(Source: technologyreview.com)
Most excellent and entertaining read.
It’s not enough that they’re ridiculously wealthy: They wish to be utterly above criticism. That’s the most important thing to remember: These people, the .01 percent, are mostly childish idiots.
