Lynne Kiesling Boy oh boy, Randall is really barking up my tree in this post on the cost-saving benefits of precooling buildings! Some of the technology developments needed to allow demand shifting are pretty low tech. It is easy to develop a computer program that will vary the thermostat setting as a function of the …
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Lynne Kiesling Check out this very interesting fact from this recent FuturePundit post on using corn as a fuel: And Dennis Buffington, a professor of engineering at Penn State University, provided these figures in a recent Wall Street Journal story about corn stoves: For 1 million BTUs of heat, it takes $16.47 in natural gas, …
Lynne Kiesling Hmmm … another Western-looking former Soviet satellite experiences disruptions to their natural gas supplies. This time it’s Georgia, not Ukraine, but one has to wonder if this is a coincidence. Certainly Georgia President Saakashvili sees dastardly intentions behind the incident: Accusations by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili that Russia is to blame for the …
Lynne Kiesling Todd Zywicki beat me to it this morning, so I will only add that I knew this was going to happen, have known it all season … but I’ve known it in the sense that Mike Madison articulated a few days ago: Steeler fans — and this includes Steeler fans everywhere, even in …
Lynne Kiesling Derek’s comment about wind power on my previous post mentions that wind power is not “dispatchable”. This characteristic refers to the extent to which the resource is available to the system operator, who is responsible for the real-time physical balancing of the network, when striving to achieve that balance. Dispatchability has been a …
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Lynne Kiesling I am enjoying the conversation in the comments on my prior post about wind subsidies. I forgot to include in that post a link to John Whitehead’s post on wind farms at Environmental Economics, building off of a recent John Tierney column in the New York Times. Tierney points out that, as some …
Lynne Kiesling There has been some attention to Whole Foods’ recent announcement that they will purchase sufficient wind energy credits to run all of their stores. The Austin-based company said it is purchasing 458,000 megawatt-hours of wind energy credits a year ? enough to power 44,000 homes annually ? from Renewable Choice Energy of Boulder, …
Lynne Kiesling I recommend this recent Grant McCracken post about Coca-Cola in the U.S. and Mexico. Grant asks if the reason more Americans are buying Mexican Coke (and Coca-Cola is trying to stop it) is about taste. Perhaps. But several of his commenters hit on the crucial distinction between the two formulations: Mexican Coke still …
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Lynne Kiesling So then I go check out Eric Raymond’s reply to Jaron Lanier, and his critique of Lanier focuses on two aspects that I wanted to use as follow-up posts. The first is Liebowitz and Margolis’s “Fable of the Keys” argument: The essay continues with a vulgar error about technology lock-in effects. I yield …
Lynne Kiesling I can already tell that I am going to enjoy the Cato Unbound series on the Internet and technology. Jaron Lanier’s initial essay is full of provocative claims and ideas; I’ve been mulling over some of them all weekend. He ranges from criticizing the path-dependent nature of the file structure of operating systems …
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