Wet storage. The UK military discovered , in WWI that the way to stop volcanic stank fires was to store the ammunition in a rack which is actually a water container. Think pigeonholes in a water tank… (View Post)

Yup. Go look at food production - it's all about mechanisation and transport. (View Post)

Why should journalists learn from mistakes? (View Post)

The sane approach would have been to fix the taxes on fuel to £x per litre. That way price movements don't get multiplied, the Treasury gets a steady tax return (though declining in the long run… (View Post)

It’s like spending on the military - the problem is too big, so the people raising the problem become the problem. Herman Kahn noted this when he suggested a Swiss style bomb shelter rule for housing… (View Post)