Max Weber

Climate and energy policy.

Max Weber writes about climate change and energy policy - the claims, the costs, and the actual track record of every solution anyone has ever tried.

He believes the most important question in climate policy is never “what should we do?” but “who pays, who decides, and what happens when it doesn’t work?” The answers are usually uncomfortable.

Before writing, he spent years in energy infrastructure, where he learned that the gap between what politicians promise and what engineering delivers is not an accident - it’s the point.

Contact: max@ryanrix.com

Articles by Max Weber

It Worked for Routers September 14, 2026
A router ban nobody voted for. The AI playbook just became public.
The Carbon Border Tax Hits the Farm - Now the Farmers Want Compensation for It August 29, 2026
Tax the imports with one hand, compensate the farmers with the other.
The Social Tariff: Who Pays for the Bills Nobody Can Pay August 28, 2026
Three million households owe £1,800. Ask who pays for the help.
The Politics of the Misdiagnosis August 27, 2026
The doomer's exhibits are all government interventions. Ask who benefits.
The £315-a-Year Bill Before You Use a Watt August 20, 2026
The £315-a-year bill you pay before using a watt is going up again.
The Grid That Isn't There: Britain Paid £1 Billion This Year to Switch Off Its Own Wind August 20, 2026
Britain paid over a billion pounds this year to switch its own wind off.
The Glitch Was the Excuse: New Jersey and the Vote Nobody Owns August 18, 2026
6,600 people said they are not citizens. The state registered them anyway.
The Consultation Was the Retreat: Who Decides the EV Mandate? August 16, 2026
The EV mandate retreat, wrapped in a consultation. The 2035 ban stays.
The Conservative Party: The Institution That Wasn't August 14, 2026
The Fabians built a 142-year machine. The Conservatives never built one.
The Elasticity Denial August 10, 2026
They trust a nudge to change your behavior. They deny a tax changes theirs.
The Rented Gate August 3, 2026
Sixty thousand crossed in two days. The gate Spain does not run.
Why Things Break: The Ten Billion Pound Nothing July 31, 2026
The NHS spent £10 billion on IT and got nothing.
Why Things Break: The AAA Rating Was Correct July 31, 2026
The AAA rating was correct. The guarantee was the scandal.
Why Things Break: Birmingham's £225 Million Oracle July 31, 2026
Europe's largest council lost £225 million on software.
Why Things Break: An Introduction July 29, 2026
Government overreach and corporate overreach are the same problem.
The Safety Moat: How Big AI Wants Regulation July 28, 2026
The three biggest AI labs agree on regulation. That should worry you.
Incentives Matter: The Problem That Can't Be Solved July 27, 2026
When a stupid decision repeats for decades, ask not who's incompetent - ask who benefits.
Wrong About Everything: Ehrlich, Carson, and Environmentalism July 24, 2026
The environmental movement was built on two pillars. Both were wrong. The movement never recovered.
The Red-Green Alliance: What the Green Party Actually Is July 24, 2026
The Green Party presents itself as the sensible environmental voice. The reality is stranger and more revealing than most people realise.
The Fabian Grip: How One Society Made Every Labour PM July 24, 2026
Every Labour PM in British history belonged to one outside organisation. Its grip on Westminster is the century's most successful long-term political project.
The Seven Questions Applied: Net Zero July 23, 2026
The UK's Net Zero policy fails six of the seven questions.
The Labour PM Who Cut Your Climate Tax July 23, 2026
A Labour government just admitted the energy tax burden was too high.
The Grievance Machine, Part II: Who Profits from Panic July 23, 2026
Anna showed the pattern. Now meet the people who need it to keep running.
Climate Bureaucracy, Part 2: The Scenario That Wouldn't Die July 23, 2026
The IPCC's worst-case scenario was never plausible. Everyone who checked knew.
The Battle of Ideas July 22, 2026
Why bad ideas keep winning - and what that tells us about how the world actually works.
Locke's Ghost July 22, 2026
The philosophy we abandoned - and what it would say if it could speak.
Free Speech in Britain July 22, 2026
The country that gave the world the right to speak is quietly taking it back.
Democracy's Impossible Voter July 22, 2026
The system assumes an informed citizen who no longer exists - if they ever did.
The Seven Questions: A Manifesto for How Laws Should Be Made July 21, 2026
A seven-question test for every new law. Almost none would pass. That is the point.
The Carbon Tax That Already Exists: You're Already Paying It July 21, 2026
Fuel taxes already price CO2 at £229 per tonne - above every official estimate of the damage. The carbon tax you keep hearing about was already there.
The Sock Puppet Industry: Who Funds the 'Independent' Voices July 21, 2026
Your taxes flow through a pipeline of quangos and committees to pay charities that lobby for more power. The money never reaches the cause.
The Climate Bureaucracy, Part 1: Who Funds the IPCC July 17, 2026
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was never set up to ask whether climate change is happening. It was set up to confirm that it is.
Germany's €600 Billion Lesson July 17, 2026
Germany spent a generation and a fortune on its energy transition. Its emissions stayed flat. Its electricity prices doubled. Something went wrong.
The Nuclear Cost Myth: What America Chose July 17, 2026
US nuclear costs exploded because of policy choices, not technology. France and South Korea built cheaper. America chose to fail.