As the COP28 is underway in Dubai, the threats of climate change and its remedies are (or should) be on our minds and in this context I read an interesting article in The Economist in late summer, telling me that about 12% of the EU’s greenhouse-gas emissions emanate from residential heating. This is well below […]
Tag: electricity
Power outage
I never thought I would be writing something like this about a prosperous country such as Switzerland, but there we go: in future winters Switzerland may be running out of electricity. Because the framework agreement with the EU has failed (well, actually the Swiss government withdrew from the talks), Europe does not want to conclude […]
Shortages
Shortages of shipping containers (actually there are probably enough of them but they are mostly in the wrong places) and microchips haven been affecting industries and disrupting supply chains all over the world. But now the situation is getting worse in the sense, that consumers are now starting to feel the pain as well. Just […]
The grumpy older man 