Platts Energy Bulletin, Quote of the Day (September 9, 2004): “Everyone is producing whatever they can. We are actually working as if that was accepted.” – Algerian Energy minister Chakib Khelil said on the sidelines of the World Energy Congress in Sydney, saying OPEC was effectively running without a quota and intending to suggest at …
Michael Giberson Actually, the Jamie Whyte interview in the New Scientist had triggered an old idea of mine. You know how it is when you’ve been bested in a debate by some idiot who hits you with a remark that leaves you stuttering for a response, and days later while you lie in bed thinking …
Michael Giberson A posting by Max Borders on The Commons mentioned this interview with Jamie Whyte in the New Scientist. I found Whyte’s comments both incisive and amusing, so Googled his book Bad Thoughts and eventually ended up at Amazon’s U.S. website. On Amazon I was (again) amused to see, under the heading “Customers interested …
Michael Giberson Has Restructuring Improved Operating Efficiency at US Electricity Generating Plants?, a working paper by Kira Markiewicz, Nancy Rose, and Catherine Wolfram posted by the University of California Energy Institute, answers the title’s question in the affirmative: This research provides some of the first estimates of the impact of electricity generation sector restructuring in …
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Michael Giberson At a press conference yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell indicated he thought that western Pennsylvania-based steel companies were not smart enough to manage their own electric bills, and needed the assistance of Harrisburg-based political appointees and state government employees. Representatives from the steel industry and the local utility appeared at the press …
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Michael Giberson One of the things that “everyone recognizes,” at least if you accept the conclusions of numerous government statements on the blackout, is that reliability rules for the grid must be made mandatory. An alternative approach is suggested in an editorial piece appearing in Power Engineering (Free registration required): The investigation into [the Three …
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Michael Giberson On July 21, 2004, the Iowa Supreme Court issued an opinion in the case of Windway v. Midland Power Cooperative, ordering Midland to allow net metering to the owner of a 65-kilowatt wind turbine. [See story at IREC website.] Under net metering, a retail energy consumer with a small generator is only billed …
Michael Giberson In the comments responding to my post Consulting the Oracle, discussion has centered around the increasing invisibility of information not made available online. In a response I speculated that, “because internet searching can give so much return for so little investment, a trip to the library or even cracking open a book can …
Michael Giberson Around my house, when we resort to the internet to answer questions like “What was the name of that movie last year with William H. Macy?” or “Who recorded ‘Oh Carolina’ before Shaggy did?”, we call it “consulting the Oracle.” Consulting the Oracle usually means Google, but for movie specific information I usually …
Michael Giberson The Washington Post reports an interesting story about efforts to restore electric power services in Iraq. The following paragraph caught my eye: Though Iraq has more power than it did before the war, Baghdad has suffered. The capital had a steady and sufficient flow of electricity under President Saddam Hussein, who supplied the …
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