May 2011 – Page 5 – Knowledge Problem

Matt Ridley Writing Up the Shale Gas Shock

3 Comments / Electricity, Energy markets, Environmental policy / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson Matt Ridley, esteemed science writer (The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Nature via Nurture, Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code, and most recently The Rational Optimist), turns his prodigious writing talent to a short booklet on the prospects for shale gas to remake the energy landscape: …

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Prepaid Power Consumers Using Salt River Project’s M-power Service Reduce Power Consumption About 12 Percent

4 Comments / Electricity, Energy markets / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson The most detailed study of a prepaid power program in the United States is EPRI’s “Paying Upfront: A Review of Salt River Project’s M-Power Prepaid Program.” The report provides a good overview and assessment of the program. See the abstract, copied below, for more of a description of the content. One issue of …

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Homeland Security: Eroding Your Human Rights Without Any Benefit-cost Analysis

9 Comments / Economics, Liberty, Politics, Transportation / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Over the past six months the TSA has started using whole-body imaging scanners as primary screening devices without explicit Congressional authorization. Congress has only authorized the TSA’s privacy officer to solicit public comment and publish a privacy impact statement (according to EPIC’s lawsuit), and their authorization of TSA practices is implicit in their …

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