Lynne Kiesling Here’s some new interdisciplinary research that is using nanotechnology to create energy storage in a paper-like material. Details of the project are outlined in the paper “Flexible Energy Storage Devices Based on Nanocomposite Paper” published Aug. 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The semblance to paper is no accident: …
Lynne Kiesling Last week the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran an article discussing how our nearly century-old, analog wires network is not up to the challenge of being a modern, distributed system that includes renewable energy: The nation’s electric power transmission system, aka the grid, could be imagined as an overworked tangle of fraying household wires repeatedly …
Michael Giberson Lest readers of Knowledge Problem believe that U.S. energy markets are the only ones subject to allegations of manipulation, from Manila comes word that the Phillipine Electricity Market Corp. is improving up its wholesale power market monitoring. The market operator hopes to deter future market power abuses similar to the alleged abuses that …
Michael Giberson An update: Yesterday a federal judge refused the FTC’s request to temporarily block the Whole Foods-Wild Oats merger. The Associated Press reported that the judge’s reasoning “was detailed in a 93-page court document that was sealed because it contains corporate secrets.” Pretty obviously, as an attorney is quoted in the AP story as …
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Lynne Kiesling The headline of this Forbes article reads “What Would You Pay To Stay Cool?” Using pending Congressional energy legislation as the springboard for the article, Ashlea Ebeling does a very good job of discussing the combination of digital technology and dynamic pricing that can transform the electric power network into a more resilient, …
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Lynne Kiesling The other day I read this Wall Street Journal article about the effect of small jets on air traffic delays ($$), and the more I thought about it, the more annoyed I got. Here’s the punchline: At La Guardia, half of all flights now involve smaller planes: regional jets and turboprops. It’s the …
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Michael Giberson Attorneys for the FTC inadvertently revealed Whole Food company trade secrets when they filed documents in court that had been incorrectly redacted. (The background behind the material intended to be redacted was set to black, making it impossible to read the black text, but not hard at all to search or copy and …
Michael Giberson The Washington Post story is headlined, “O’Malley Encouraging Utilities Commission To Assert Its Powers“: The hearing on the 16th floor of the state government building in Baltimore was as charged as a cross-examination. Two Verizon officials were called to appear before Maryland’s utility regulators to explain a 50 percent increase in customer complaints …
Michael Giberson I stumbled across the Home of the Groove blog some months back. It turned out to be a great place to delve deeper into New Orleans funk and R&B and related musicality. And recently, the Home of the Groove has sprouted its own internet radio station running a 10-hours and growing playlist of …
Michael Giberson Sally Satel writes on “Supply, Demand, and Kidney Transplants” in Policy Review: Under the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act, anyone who offers or receives something of material value in exchange for an organ can be charged with a felony. The ban ’s rationale was twofold: to prevent lurid scenarios in which desperately poor …
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