ASFO 2024–10–26

Too much of my attention lately is on mundane politics. Alas, it is a topic which has a direct effect on how I live and what I am able to do, and on the shape of the future that it is feasible to build. Also, Mail Call! leads me to speculate on the resemblance between Chinese Hell Money and the securities markets.

Supplementary Shows

  • 2024–10–29 Skylab (part 1 of 2) by Joseph Green, science–fact article from the 1972 March Analog magazine. Did not archive properly.
  • 2024–11–01 Skylab (part 2 of 2), Analog magazine, 1972 April.

ASFO 2024–10–19

Chicago! Stacker of wheat, butcher of hogs, et cetera, and also one of the most nuclear–powered places in the USA. Incidentally it is also the place where I arrived in the USA from Iceland after my sea voyage, and where I will board my train home to Texas. This show was phoned in from a hotel room.

ASFO 2024–10–05

An abbreviated show as I set out on my travels back to the USA. Listen for an effusion on the joys of tourist visits to power plants, and alas, a long list of nuclear power plants I had hoped to visit but did not get to. I also missed out on the Swedish one, in the event, because I spent most of my time in Gothenburg resting. Listen for a discussion of the successor currencies of the Scandinavian Monetary Union, gripes about the Euro coinage, and aspersions on the idea of border controls.

ASFO 2024–09–21

Report from Berlin, and missed opportunities on my part — Three Mile Island, excuse me, Crane Clean Energy Center, and MicroSoft — “net zero by 2030”, gas for Australia, “thirty million acres” of photovoltaics for the USA, and no sign of an actual energy policy anywhere… A little technical trouble at the outset, unfortunately.