Wind powered generation (WPG) is the dominant renewable energy source for electricity production. Its intermittent nature limits its contribution to the adequacy of electrical systems. We investigate this issue and define the social cost of wind power as the difference between its actual cost...

Who’s the Greatest Of All Times, be it a team or an athlete, is hotly debated among sport fans. To provide a tentative answer, we apply the mathematical concept of network centrality upon the paired comparison model. We capture the twin notions of fitness and prestige across epochs in order to...

Being driven by nature, the electrical output of wind power is intermittent rather than controllable. This feature impacts the security of supply on two dimensions related to the short and long term: reliability and adequacy. The technical challenge presented by reliability has been met with...

We compare human development among 157 countries over one million population. For that task, twelve dimensions of potential happiness are selected using a matching of individual preferences to issues. We detail the construction of an indicator for each dimension using mostly objective data. We...

We gather extensive global price and volume information to establish that exhaustible mineral commodities are both affordable and abundant. On average, we extract a kilogram of mineral for every 5$ of GDP, at a cost of 1⁄4$. We predict that economic growth will progressively decouple from...

A low carbon electricity generating technology can only contribute to the net-zero energy transition if it is able to scale up. From that perspective, we compare nuclear, wind and solar power wrt. the size of a typical power plant, across the criteria of physical scalability, building experience...

San Martín and Saracho (2010) show that an incumbent, in a duopoly, prefers licensing an innovation through ad-valorem rather than per-unit royalties. In this note, we consider an outsider and oligopoly. We show that an outsider innovator prefers ad-valorem royalties. For an oligopoly that is...

We thoroughly test the Greater Male Variability (GMV) hypothesis according to which men vary more than women in every physical and psychological dimension. We firstly reformu- late the variability notion in the gender context. We then leverage “big data” and public use files to test the GMV...