Lynne Kiesling In the past couple of weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about the problem of status quo bias in the context of achieving meaningful policy change in the electric power industry. If it’s natural for us to prefer the status quo even in the face of beneficial change, how can we overcome those …
Lynne Kiesling Wow, it’s really empowering to look at the activity log and see all of those spam denials. I’ve installed MT-Blacklist and it’s running successfully; I’ve run into some problems in deleting the mounds of spam that had accumulated while I was moving, but it’s down to a manageable problem. I’ve also made my …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s a potentially mischievous idea for solving the problem Mike posed — using fingerprinting technology when you sell the drug, say, for example, an RFID tag in each pill’s section of a blister pack that will render it null if opened by someone other than the buyer. Loads of problems with this idea …
Lynne Kiesling This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is at The Frozen North. I’ve been a bad citizen this summer, what with work and house and all, and have not been contributing and advertising as much as I should be. Not surprisingly, I particularly liked Tim Worstall’s post on oil prices. Tim also gives a …
Lynne Kiesling The OED website has a feature that is dangerous for linguaphiles like myself — an email subscription word of the day. I already subscribe to A Word A Day, which I love both for the words and for the epigrams that Anu Garg picks to illustrate usage. But I’m often so crazy busy …
Lynne Kiesling OK, I said we were about more than electricity here, but this is cool: Randall Parker’s post on thin-film superconductor technology that may, in time, make large-scale centeral fossil-fuel generation of electric power obsolete. I also think he’s right, that nuclear would still continue to be able to compete (although there’s a large …
Lynne Kiesling Many thanks to Glenn Reynolds for his blackout-commemorative post that linked to us, and welcome to new readers from Instapundit! We are about more than electricity here at KP, so please keep checking in.
Lynne Kiesling Yeah, from me too. BTW, spent much of last week in Portland, Oregon, discussing how to move toward effective power markets in the Pacific Northwest. It was a great discussion, sponsored by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. More later …
Lynne Kiesling A question related to the public good nature of network reliability is whether the fact that something has public good characteristics necessarily implies that it should be provided to all at a uniform level. Again, not necessarily. Imposing a uniform reliability standard to deal with the public good features of networks does disservice …
Lynne Kiesling Randall Parker had a great post on Friday about hybrid and electric vehicles as electricity generation sources. Think about it: you come home from work, plug your car into your house, and use it to augment whatever other source of electricity you have, whether it’s your own generator, a neighborhood combined heat and …
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