Michael Giberson Actually, the Jamie Whyte interview in the New Scientist had triggered an old idea of mine. You know how it is when you’ve been bested in a debate by some idiot who hits you with a remark that leaves you stuttering for a response, and days later while you lie in bed thinking …
Michael Giberson A posting by Max Borders on The Commons mentioned this interview with Jamie Whyte in the New Scientist. I found Whyte’s comments both incisive and amusing, so Googled his book Bad Thoughts and eventually ended up at Amazon’s U.S. website. On Amazon I was (again) amused to see, under the heading “Customers interested …
Lynne Kiesling This Baseline Magazine article from late June describes how Trek, a bicycle manufacturer in Wisconsin, uses sophisticated technology and data analysis to improve the quality of its bikes, particularly its high-end bikes that elite athletes use. It’s 1997. Paul Andrews is taking a 20-minute spin on a Trek Y-Foil road bike. The bike …
Michael Giberson Has Restructuring Improved Operating Efficiency at US Electricity Generating Plants?, a working paper by Kira Markiewicz, Nancy Rose, and Catherine Wolfram posted by the University of California Energy Institute, answers the title’s question in the affirmative: This research provides some of the first estimates of the impact of electricity generation sector restructuring in …
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Michael Giberson At a press conference yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell indicated he thought that western Pennsylvania-based steel companies were not smart enough to manage their own electric bills, and needed the assistance of Harrisburg-based political appointees and state government employees. Representatives from the steel industry and the local utility appeared at the press …
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Lynne Kiesling Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is a great example of private initiative and willingness to “walk the talk” in private “internalization” of environmental “externalities” (for background on why I am putting these things in quotes, see this post on the Energy Star certification and irrelevant externalities, this post on network reliability as a public good, …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve been spending the past few days revising my Environmental Economics course in preparation for fall quarter, so my mind is in an environmental place right now. One of the inspiring things I’ve read this week is this Rocky Mountain News oped from Terry Anderson at PERC. Terry discusses how human ingeneuity and …
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