Lynne Kiesling
The Next 100 is an interesting blog from some folks at PG&E; check it out and see what you think. They cover a range of energy, technology, and environment topics that will resonate with readers of Knowledge Problem, Environmental Economics, and the Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital. Although they do seem, at least in the current posts, to be staying assiduously away from policy analysis …
In particular, I am grateful for their post on the life cycle emissions profiles of different ways of transporting people. This study cited in their posts suggests “Rail buffs, gird your loins: travel by train can actually produce more greenhouse gas emissions than flying.” I’d like to see this analysis repeated for freight, to see if my thought that rail generates fewer emissions than trucks carrying equivalent tonnage an equivalent distance is correct.