Michael Giberson Kent Hawkins has a further post at Master Resource examining the effects of wind power on overall emissions produced in a power system. In the post Hawkins examines the Michael Milligan et al, article, “Wind Power Myths Debunked,” appearing in the most recent IEEE Power and Energy Magazine (an article mentioned in comments …
Michael Giberson The Miami Herald reports that early Thanksgiving morning smugglers dropped 30-plus Cuban migrants off on the property of the Turkey Point nuclear power plant, 25 miles south of Miami. Apparently the group remained undetected on the property for about 8 hours, at which time the group called the plant’s control room seeking a …
Michael Giberson Ever wonder what a RTO power market design looks like? Here is one view, in the form of the 106-page “Mid Level Description” of the Southwest Power Pool market currently under development. (Note that the link is to a 1.4 MB zip file which contains the “SPP Future Markets Design/Energy and Operating Reserve …
Michael Giberson William Easterly writes, “Few people outside academia realize how badly Randomized Evaluation has polarized academic development economists for and against.” That claim seems reasonable enough. I’d bet few people outside academia know what randomized evaluation is. Frankly, I’d bet you could survey economists on the floor of the upcoming American Economic Association meetings …
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Michael Giberson Production of natural gas from shale has dramatically changed the U.S. energy resource picture, and although experience elsewhere is limited* it is increasingly obvious that this not just a North American story. Nick Grealy, at No Hot Air, considers the implications for the UK: North American shale gas already has a significant indirect …
Michael Giberson James Hamilton, “Will rising oil prices derail the recovery?“: I have no doubt that the problems with financial markets were a bigger factor than oil prices in the striking collapse in output in 2008:Q4 and 2009:Q1. The other approaches to measuring the contribution of oil to the downturn surveyed in my Brookings paper …
Michael Giberson Will Wilkinson, at The Week, writes about “The perils of political correctness–left and right.” How we think about what is and is not socially acceptable can, in some cases, get people killed.
Michael Giberson Jonathon Fahey, at Forbes.com, explains “How NRG Energy Wants to Revive Nuclear Industry.” In the early part of the decade proponents talked breathlessly of a nuclear renaissance in the U.S. Natural gas prices were high, electricity demand was rising, and it seemed that carbon emissions would soon be either taxed or limited. In …
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Lynne Kiesling Check out this cool new data center plan — locate the servers under a cathedral and use the waste heat to warm the cathedral and the neighboring buildings! This is an established system called district heating, which uses a network of steam or hot water pipes to heat distributed buildings.
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