efficiency Archive

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  Amazing fuel efficiency innovation

  
  
  
  Spurred on by frogblog reader geoff_184 who commented on my KiwiRail post, I was forced to consider what must be a ground breaking innovation. If his numbers are correct, this newfangled contraption might help wean us from our account deficit killing addiction to foreign oil. From geoff’s comment: How to use the fuel of 75 trucks [...] read more
  February 25, 2009 10:46 am - 53 Comments
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  The efficient market

  
  
  
  This poster says all that needs to be said about just how efficient “free” markets are at separating hard working taxpayers from their money: The efficiency with which the financial markets (and now the real economy) are fleecing the taxpayers to pay for their own excesses is astounding. Now our government is saying that in order [...] read more
  December 10, 2008 3:15 pm - 44 Comments
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  National Party to dump the billion dollar Green Home Fund

  
  
  
  Last night in Auckland, National Party Climate Change Spokesman Dr. Nick Smith MP announced under pressure that National has no plans to keep the billion dollar Green Home Fund that the Greens negotiated with Labour. Speaking at the Oxfam Climate Change Debate, Smith was pressured by Minister Parker as to whether National would keep the fund. [...] read more
  October 14, 2008 6:11 am - 62 Comments
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  Pouring cold water on the nanny state myth

  
  
  
  Showerheads and regulations have been getting a lot of airtime recently, with Nick Smith and his mates making hay with a bit of misinformation and a lot of fake moral outrage. In short, there is no regulation requiring high-efficiency shower heads of 6 litres/min in new homes. This is a patently false statement. At the [...] read more
  October 13, 2008 11:17 am - 86 Comments
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  I’m glad you asked

  
  
  
  I’m glad to see my post on the issue of vehicle fuel efficiency standards has provoked such interest. Here are a few answers to a few questions: Kevyn, – my briefing on the $148m saved on power bills since the MEPs came in was an oral one but you could write to EECA and ask for [...] read more
  July 30, 2008 12:16 pm - 11 Comments
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  Key questions SPARC expenditure. Frog questions Crosby/Textor expenditure.

  
  
  
  I was trolling the blogosphere, as one does on a rainy Friday afternoon, and had a read of David Slack’s post over at Public Address. He was questioning John Key’s questioning of SPARC’s budget for websites. After running through a very pertinent list of the hard work it would take to create websites that got [...] read more
  July 4, 2008 4:45 pm - 15 Comments