William Hughes-Games

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Graduate in Physics and Math with minors in Chemistry, biology and geology. Worked most of life in mariculture research, chiefly with molluscs. Also worked in hydrology and as a high school teacher of Math, science, physics and shop. At present retired. Have built a couple of boats and my present house. Am a huge fan of President Obama.

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Occupation: Retired, N/A
Interests: Beaver-salmon relationship, renewable energy, electric cars, sustainability
Expertise: Mariculture, simple math physics chemistry to high school level
Affiliations: Volunteer fire department, dump oversight committee
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William commented on this review – Jan. 11, 2012
Manfred Ostrowski
4.1
(NT Rating: 4.0)
Reviewed by Manfred Ostrowski - Jan. 11, 2012
William Hughes Games Comment:

It seems odd for all these GOP candidates to be rushing to loose an election. Surly none of these clowns can beat Obama (can they???). If they do, i’ve got to find a island somewhere or perhaps another planet. It reminds me of the chap that saw WW2 ... More »

William reviewed this story - Dec 14, 2011
William's Rating
4.0

Why is it so hard for politicians to adopt Jim Hansen's Tax and Dividend. It is highly likely to be effective, and will protect the public from the inevitable price hikes during the switch to renewable energy. Of most importance from a politician's point of view, it is a real vote winner. I don't understand their reluctance. What's that you say?? They have shares in Big Coal and oil. OK, I guess that would do it.

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William reviewed this story - Dec 14, 2011
William's Rating
5.0

Would have been nice to have a picture or two

This is one of the signs that has been waited for that the tipping point has been reached. We are talking geological time so the tip could take a year or two but it now seems inevitable. At the peak of this or the next solar cycle in an el Nino year, we may see an ice free Arctic and the process will accelerate.

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William posted this story - Dec 14, 2011
William reviewed this story - Nov 30, 2011
William's Rating
4.7

Great to have a fair comment based on fact.

It is sad if Mitt's comments are based on political expediency. Perhaps they are based on conviction. Good to see he doesn't think that cap and trade is of much use. Perhaps someone should explain to him Tax and Dividend by Jim Hansen. Besides being very likely to be effective, it would be a real vote winner. That would really put the cat amongst the pigeons. Best , too, if he realizes that you don't have to invoke climate change to justify getting off fossil fuels

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William reviewed this story - Nov 16, 2011
William's Rating
4.5

Bringing to light a most important point

Every measure that you really want has to be supported. Not just this one.

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William posted this story - Nov 16, 2011
William reviewed this story - Nov 10, 2011
William's Rating
1.8

What totally biased claptrap

Have a look at the Daly interview of Bill Clinton a little further down the page. Take into account the real expense of coal (health effects, for instance) and renewable energy is competitive with coal. Better still the price of renewably generated electricity is decreasing day by day and all the indications are that it will continue to do so. We still have waste from the Manhattan project sitting above ground and haven't found a way to dispose of it. Take the true cost of ... More »

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William reviewed this story - Oct 12, 2011
William's Rating
5.0

An interesting corollary to this is that when the Arctic ocean becomes ice free, it becomes a giant solar collector. If warm rising air over the ocean couples with katibatic winds down the flanks of Greenland, we get highly accelerated melting of the ice sheet. By by New York.

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William reviewed this story - Aug 26, 2011
William's Rating
2.8

Missing the reality of liberal interventionism in the recent past.

The Libyan conflict may be the first example of liberal interventionism in recent history. All the other 'interventions' by the west in the business of other states have been for some gain for the interfering state, often to steal their resources. Read Hoodwinked by John Perkins. This no-boots-on-the-ground conflict has left the ownership of the success in the hands of the Libyan people. Whatever happens over the coming years, they now have the pride and the example of what they ... More »

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William reviewed this story - Jul 14, 2011
William's Rating
3.7

Missing the point

Rupert had the same relationship to politicians of the world that J Edgar Hoover had to American politicians. Now that they have the goods on him, they will be doing everything they can to get him off their necks (standing on). Couldn't happen to a more deserving fellow.

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William reviewed this story - Jul 12, 2011
William's Rating
4.4

The article has a very narrow focus but is good as far as it goes

It is pretty well certain that global warming will cause extinctions but it must be very hard to separate the extinctions from global warming from extinctions from other causes. Whales which once pumped nutrients (Whale Poo) from the depths to power a whole ecology is almost gone. Over-fishing has reduced key species with hard-to-evaluate downstream effects Nutrient excess has turned large areas of the ocean anaerobic. Silt run off has trashed oyster beds and corals. And this is ... More »

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William reviewed this story - Jul 10, 2011
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5.0

It would have been better if it had been the story that broke open this scandal but a summary after the fact is very valuable

I would have thought that the revelations about Murdoch and his paper(s) would have guaranteed that there would be no approval for the BSkyB deal. Am I missing something. Are we trying to spread this sickness to all branches of the Media.

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William reviewed this story - Jun 25, 2011
William's Rating
5.0

forwarned is forarmed

In a country that elected Bush Junior for a second term and in which 40% of the adult population believes in the literal word of a book written by an obscure sect of desert living extremists some 2000 years ago, Bachmann is no joke. If she is even the candidate for the GOP it's time to look for another planet.

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William posted this story - Jun 25, 2011
William reviewed this story - Jun 23, 2011
William's Rating
5.0

Forget climate change

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William reviewed this story - Jun 19, 2011
William's Rating
5.0

Straight forward, no nonsense commentary as we always got from Jimmy Carter. If America had listened to him and followed his advice we wouldn't be beholden to desert despots now and the economic crisis would never have happened.

As long as the American banks are making big money from laundering the drug money (recent article in News Trust), from Mexico, this very sensible policy will never be enacted. Some time ago I read a study that it is 30 times more cost effective to treat addicts than to try to stop drugs coming into the country in order to decrease the drug trade. Sorry I can't remember where I read this.

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William reviewed this story - Jun 19, 2011
William's Rating
5.0

A straight forward report of scientific observations

With the decrease in snowpack and increased variability in precipitation, it becomes doubly important to increase the spread of beavers throughout the catchments of the west. They greatly increase the amount of usable water from a given quantity of precipitation.

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William reviewed this story - Jun 5, 2011
William's Rating
5.0

Freedoms denied to others eventually seep into your own living space. The corporatocracy has been trashing the environment and civil liberties in any country around the world that has resources that America wants. She has supported mafias of the worst kind. Now they are using the same systems against the citizens of America. Surprise surprise. Read John Perkin's "Hoodwinked" Obama is the first president that is supporting a liberation movement (in Libia) This is ... More »

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William reviewed this story - Jun 5, 2011
William's Rating
5.0

Same old same old. Read John Perkin's books "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" and/or "Hoodwinked". Nothing new under the Sin (sorry, Sun)

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William commented on this story – May. 26, 2011

Thankfully we only have devastating earthquakes in New Zealand. They are relatively benign compared to your tornadoes. Is the rebuild going to be of heavily reinforced concrete?

William reviewed this story - May 21, 2011
William's Rating
3.9

What? The rapture didn't happen. OK folks. See you all same time same place next Thursday.

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William commented on this story – May. 14, 2011

The language and analogies of the writer help to convey in simple terms (to an economic illiterate like myself) what caused, is causing and will cause the world economy to tank. The only explanation I can think of to explain the reluctance of the Justice Department to prosecute ... More »

William commented on this story – May. 11, 2011

The oil companies will threaten to raise fuel prices if these subsidies are removed and may even do so. Keep pointing out the ridiculous profits they are making and embarrass the heck out of them. Write to your republican congressmen and republican senators and for heaven sake ... More »

William reviewed this story - May 8, 2011
William's Rating
5.0

Stating the unexpressed truth with a concrete example bringing sharp focus to the problem.

The same problem exists all over the western world. On one hand you want a good work environment and don't want to facilitate dangerous work environments or sweat shops. On the other hand you want to encourage businesses to start up in your area. In my own part of New Zealand we have officials who are incredibly helpful in steering you through the pitfalls of getting things done and that goes a long way toward easing the pain of complying with what sometimes seems to be ... More »

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William reviewed this story - May 1, 2011
William's Rating
1.4

Clearly, Sarah Palin would be the perfect running mate for Donald Trump. Both have the same in-depth sophisticated political savy with a wide ranging knowledge of the world outside America. Together they would lead America into a prosperous future with their far sighted vision of the future. I especially admire Ms Palin's deep ecological knowledge as expressed by her plan to kill off all the wolves of Alaska to improve Moose hunting. A wider application of this type of thinking ... More »

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William reviewed this story - Apr 29, 2011
William's Rating
4.0

And we want another food production miracle, completely ignoring Parkinson's umpteenth law that population increases to use up any increases in food production. The 60's agricultural revolution is arguably responsible for an extra billion of us on the earth pushing Giai further into a corner. The only exception is when affordable contraception is put into the hands of women. Look at Iran. Present birth rate 1.71 per woman of child bearing age down from just under 10 and prior ... More »

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William reviewed this story - Apr 29, 2011
William's Rating
2.2

I can't believe that religion will ever disappear. Our need to believe in a supernatural being seems to be hardwired into our brains and we create the most weird and wonderful gods. From the most remote tribes to people in the middle of big cities, we all seem to want to believe. This need seems to vary from person to person and as those with less need drift away from organized religion, the remaining rump gets more and more fanatic. Actually this need for religion may be one of ... More »

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William reviewed this story - Apr 19, 2011
William's Rating
4.6

This is news. The war was actually about grabbing another countries resources??? Tell us something we don't know. Look at Donald Trump. He may be a nut case but at least he is honest. ('go into Libya and grab the oil')

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William reviewed this story - Apr 9, 2011
William's Rating
4.5

A good article beginning to shine light on a modern day railroad type baron.

Koch Industries is the archetypical company that wants complete freedom to do what it wants regardless of its effect on others.

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William reviewed this story - Apr 9, 2011
William's Rating
3.8

Pretty hard to make a story like this into bad journalism. Just reporting the facts

I wonder if Mr average American will even notice that the government is not in session. Clearly, the salaries of the congress men and the senators should stop and not be repaid retroactively. That would focus their attention. Great way to save money for more important things (than government) like health care for the people they have put out of work by their lack of regulation of the banks and investment companies. How much money could be diverted if the congress and senate was ... More »

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William reviewed this story - Apr 9, 2011
William's Rating
4.3

Tesla cars could sweep the market but only if they go to the other end of the market. There is a huge hunger for a very well engineered, easily repaired car with none of the bells and whistles. Think an electric combi. Cover that puppy with solar panels and watch it sell.

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William reviewed this story - Apr 4, 2011
William's Rating
5.0

There must be a god (I'm kidding of course but you know what I mean)

On a more serious vein, we don't really need to believe in climate change to justify getting off fossil fuels. We have pollution, trashing our trade balance, supporting mafias in the supply countries which oppress their own people, financing petrol companies with no loyalty to their own country and which are part of this bonus pig trough mentality, destroying our mountains (coal) and wilderness (arctic) etc. etc. etc. Forget climate change and lets look at our best interests.

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William commented on this story – Apr. 3, 2011

It is a curious phenomenon that when highly sophisticated systems are designed, the engineers often loose site of some of the simple things that any high school physics student would spot. In the case of the Japanese nuclear power stations, such things as storing spent fuel rods low ... More »

William reviewed this story - Apr 3, 2011
William's Rating
5.0

I wish I could hit the nail on the head again and again the way this article does.

The west became powerful as its societies became more and more egalitarian, releasing huge amounts of human energy. Now we see the Muslem and Oriental peoples start to refashion their societies in this direction while America goes backwards. Guess who will own the future.

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William posted this story - Apr 2, 2011
William reviewed this story - Mar 23, 2011
William's Rating
4.7

A clear no frills account of the situation without editorializing. We need more journalism like this.

For once America and the West is involved in a war which is justified and which they are carrying out in a thoroughly admirable way. They must stick to their pledge of no boots on the ground. Not even an advisor. It is up to the incredibly brave Arab people to sort out their own form of government post Kadafi and they, and the form of government they choose will be all the stronger for them having done it themselves. With the rise of egalitarianism in their country we can expect ... More »

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William reviewed this story - Mar 16, 2011
William's Rating
3.9

If we are going to use nuclear power why don't we switch to Thorium with all its advantages.

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William commented on this review – Mar. 16, 2011
William Hughes-Games
3.9
(NT Rating: 4.2)
Reviewed by William Hughes-Games - Mar. 16, 2011

If we are going to use nuclear power why don't we switch to Thorium with all its advantages.

William Hughes Games Comment:

That’s right and in order to get power from Thorium you first have to bombard it with Neutrons and the rate of neutron bombardment determines the rate of energy release. The Physicist express this by saying that Thorium is fertile while Uranium is fissile. As to the reasons why ... More »

William commented on this review – Mar. 15, 2011
William Hughes-Games
3.9
(NT Rating: 4.2)
Reviewed by William Hughes-Games - Mar. 16, 2011

If we are going to use nuclear power why don't we switch to Thorium with all its advantages.

William Hughes Games Comment:

Hi Bob
Sorry about that. I will add an explanation to the blog – The point wasn’t made clearly. The thing with radioactive material is that if they have a short half life such as radioactive iodine, they give out all their radioactivity quickly as they transmutate ... More »

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