The price of sustainability by Kai Neumann

Being tired of the complaints that renewable energy is expensive, that we cannot afford the conservation of natural habitats, that not all people can purchase organic products, that our industry looses jobs, our citizens cannot bear the burden of the costs of sustainable solutions, and so forth I started this model. As it turned out it is not as easy as I thought. My original assumption was that any additional expenses should - with a high domestic value creation compared to the import of fossil fuels - ...

successful PMO by Roberto2106

What´s important to setup a successful PMO

Germany's great coalition - unfit to shape the future by Kai Neumann

National health care system by Kai Neumann

just a quick collection of the major arguments maybe one should explicitly distinguish between private and national insurances and between the stakes of healthier and those less healthy persons though the major implications are already included. please post your comments

Collaborative Commons (J. Rifkin), Sharing Economy, Internet 4.0 (IoT) by Kai Neumann

This is the start of a collaborative model on the question whether the internet of things and the sharing economy will reshape the way we live, whether it will prevail, create or cost jobs, increase or decrease our living standards and whether it will have a positive effect on our environment. A major factor will be our net happiness. According to KNOW-WHY-Thinking we need to feel integration and development. It is way easier to feel good by buying something new (developement) and than having something (...

Government spending - systemic sink or source by Kai Neumann

This little qualitative model just helps my argumentation in a discussion on a perspective from Gene Bellinger's Kumu project. Yet it is probably interesting for others as well as it features the major arguments from democrats and republicans, from libertarians and communitarians, from the liberals and social democrats .... and so forth

Coronavirus Epidemic 2019/20 for Switzerland by Louis

COVID-19 Epidemie in der Schweiz (Louis Gerber)System Dynamics Modell der COVID-19 Epidemie in der Schweiz. Auch wenn das Modell nach bestem Wissen erstellt wurde, übernehme ich keine Verantwortung für gesundheitspolitische Entscheide, welche daraus abgeleitet werden. Aber als Beitrag zu einer sachlichen Diskussion scheint es mir allemal geeignet. Das Modell ist ein Update des Schweinegrippe Modells von 2009. Es wurde um Massnahmen und Effekte angereichert, welche damals nicht zur Diskussion standen. Da ...

Success for hellokraftwerk.com by d3dhemmer

The eZelleron GmbH  http://www.ezelleron.eu/en/ eZelleron is an innovative start-up company based in Dresden. The company has been developing low-emission energy sources for mobile power supplies since 2008. In addition to the well established advantages of fuel cell technology, eZelleron excels through cost efficiency in the production processes and through the perspective to utilize readily available fuels. The lead in technology is protected through several patent families and is currently put into pr...

Refugees vs. Migrants - a possible solution to Germany's refugee dilemma by Kai Neumann

We are in the midst of an escalation of attitudes against refugees and politics with our media reporting that we have reached limits, with the use of suggestive questions in almost every interview. The existing models on the refugee crisis on know-why.net predicted that: https://www.know-why.net/model/CY7aksh7qgaQkCiULQUJN1A  The consequence will be right wing movements and while media thinks it should warn of a threat of right wing movements it actually fuels them. However, now we need to find a clever ...

The effect of low oil prices and end of Iranian sanctions (Fareed Zakaria's arguments) by Kai Neumann

The start of the model is based on an article by Fareed Zakaria. Feel free to edit the model through the collaborative modeling link " By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, February 4, 2016 One of Donald Trump’s stock campaign lines is that the Iran nuclear agreement was “terrible.” I’m beginning to wonder whether that’s true, but from the other side. Iran has ended up with a much worse deal than it expected. Remember, Tehran entered the negotiations in the heady days of high oil prices. As the Iranians are discov...