I've been waiting for the stages to tick through, but they really haven't, and we've been basically stuck at phase 2 for the last 4 years. This is probably because, in Japan, the goals of projects are sufficiently woolly that you have to try really hard to fail. But then, last Friday, the samurai struck, and Phases 3-7 all happened simultaneously. I'm not sure whether we will be able to negotiate anything sensible, but at present I feel like giving it all up and going and sitting under that tree in Kenchoji.
Samurai?
ReplyDeleteIt's samurai all the way up. Some of them even have real swords that they polish religiously.
ReplyDeleteHm, is there a competing project that's attracted those who manage?
ReplyDeletehttp://home.comcast.net/~ghaff/docs/theword.html
That's nice, though round here no-one ever bothers to ask the opinion of those who will actually have to do the work, we are just told what it is - eg most recently that the new buzz-word is "tipping points" at which we recoiled in horror...I suspect the coming months and years will be spent working out how to dress up sensible research as it if is addressing this (non-)issue.
ReplyDeleteThey will lose interest in
ReplyDeleteok, back to your desks kids.
> tipping points
ReplyDeleteWell, you could define that as providing climate information to the people who watch the economic tipping points.
For example, economics of any power plants. They all get rid of waste heat.
When will enough warm stretches occur during the average year -- during which they have to derate the plant -- that the beancounter tips over? (return on revenue drops to where they have to close or remodel the plant).