Michael Giberson This could be one of the gee-whiz, how-cool-is-that posts about advancing technologies that we do here from time to time. The Arizona Republic has a story about how the new Phoenix Convention Center, which was finished in 2006, will begin to generate some of its own power courtesy of some gee-whiz technologies: peel-and-stick …
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Michael Giberson From Scientific American online, “What Can Virtual-World Economists Tell Us about Real-World Economies?“: Eyjólfur Guðmundsson is the only economist on Earth who spends his days studying the fluctuating cost of warp-disruption batteries and T2 light drones. That’s because he’s the world’s first virtual-world economist. This past August, Guðmundsson took up residence in EVE …
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Michael Giberson The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) announced today that the first allowance auction in the United States for a mandatory CO2 emissions reduction program will take place on September 10, 2008. A second auction will take place December 17, with quarterly auctions thereafter; the compliance period will begin January 1, 2009. The announcement …
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Michael Giberson At Platt’s The Barrel blog, Dave Ernsberger writes that, “no one particularly loves an economist, especially the ones that work at Wall Street banks.” But then he recalls that, about three years ago when oil prices were about $55/barrel, Goldman Sachs economist Arjun N. Murti briefly became famous in energy and finance circles …
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Michael Giberson The WSJ’s Environmental Capital blog reports that venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (early backers of companies like Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com and Google), has become excited by clean technology. Kleiner partner John Doerr said the company hoped to cash in on what it believes will be a multi-trillion-dollar market for alternative …
Michael Giberson According to the Xcel Energy news release: The advanced, smart grid system – when fully implemented over the next few years – will provide customers with a portfolio of smart grid technologies designed to provide environmental, financial and operational benefits. Xcel Energy anticipates funding only a portion of the project, and plans to …
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Michael Giberson David Pogue in the New York Times: I can’t tell you how huge this is going to be. There will be thousands of iPhone programs, covering every possible interest. The iPhone will be valuable for far more than simple communications tasks; it will be the first widespread pocket desktop computer. You’re witnessing the …
Michael Giberson Via Texas Tech Today: If all of the cattle, swine and poultry waste across the United States could be collected and converted to electricity, the resulting energy could produce 80 percent of the nation’s current electrical power needs, while also generating marketable high-end plants and extracts. And the system works, at least on …
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Lynne Kiesling I am in Frisco, Texas for the next couple of days, to participate in KEMA’s Executive Forum in Retail Energy Markets, including moderating a panel of clean tech energy entrepreneurs. Should be fun!
Michael Giberson I’m swamped with work and have a lot of reading stacked up in the queue, so I haven’t had a chance to check out all of the good stuff that has been coming out of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center lately. Here are a couple of recent working papers: Seth Blumsack, Lester …
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