Here and here are two articles from Wired that are good complements to Dan Gillmor’s article referenced below. Not only would this bill have unintended consequences, as the first article discusses, the large media companies would not have to stop their P2P music distribution under this bill.
This Financial Times article analyzes Dynegy’s recent sale of a pipeline it acquired from Enron to bolster its balance sheet and reduce its debt. Dynegy’s stock price increased accordingly yesterday. The first paragraph of the article says it well: When Dynegy snatched the Northern Natural Gas pipeline company from a collapsing Enron for $1.5bn, it …
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I don’t know whether or not Perot Systems actually did share confidential information about the structure and design of the California electricity market, but as this Financial Times article indicates, what matters is what investors believe, and how they act on those beliefs. As the article says, investors are not convinced by the arguments that …
In this press release titled “LADWP Funds Innovative Energy Efficient Technology Ideas”, the Los Angeles municipal utility announced an initiative to fund innovative energy-efficiency technologies that will particularly reduce peak-load demand. You know, if you just allow for market-based real-time pricing, even just for large industrial users, LADWP wouldn’t have to spend $750,000 on this …
Dan Gillmor on the proposed “Peer to Peer Piracy Prevention Act,” under which the music and movie industries would be legally allowed to hack into computers running file-sharing programs. Dan puts it very gloomily.
This OpinionJournal editorial by George McGovern is an incredibly eloquent statement of how ridiculous and unthinking airport security bureaucracy has become. Read it, tell your airlines that you’ll avoid flying and they are more likely to go out of business because of this static, backward-looking approach to making us feel safe that instead just makes …
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The telecommunications industry is currently in an incredible state of flux — financial concerns, business model issues, and regulatory treatment are all affecting the industry at once, in this uncertain investment climate. This fascinating InfoWorld article makes a crucially important point about technological change and the future of the telecommunications industry: Keeping the Internet an …
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This article from Wired News gives a nice, concise description of the implications of Covalent’s (open-source Apache server’s) decision to support Microsoft’s .Net technology. This decision will create more choice in the web server market, and also bodes well for the good experimentation consequences of pluralistic technology use and development. However, this NYT article suggests …
Honda announced today that they have secured a license from the US and California governments to sell fuel cell vehicles in the US. The article does a nice job of describing the realistic timeframe for the diffusion of fuel cell vehicles, including the pesky issue of the network infrastructure for hydrogen refueling. Is this cool …
According to this press release, the municipal utility in Austin, Texas has installed a natural-gas-fired fuel cell combined heat and power system. Austin Energy installed the 200-kilowatt fuel cell system, which also produces 900,000 BTUs of usable heat per hour, at the Rebekah Baines Johnson Health Center. Electricity produced by the unit is fed into …
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