Lynne Kiesling Last Friday National Public Radio ran a Planet Money story called “Do smart meters curb energy use?” (first link is to program listing, second is to story transcript) Members of the KP community will not be surprised by any of the content in the report, but it does provide a good introduction to …
Lynne Kiesling I don’t really have an opinion about Tucker Carlson’s new online journalism enterprise The Daily Caller. I do, though, really like what Arianna Huffington said in her guest column there today about the uselessness of the left-right political model, and how the media do themselves and us a disservice by leaving on those …
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Lynne Kiesling Whirlpool and Direct Energy have long been two of the most forward-looking companies working in the electricity value chain. Whirlpool was the appliance partner on the GridWise Olympic Peninsula transactive network project, and have committed to all of their global products being grid friendly and transactive by 2015. Direct Energy, an energy retailer, …
Lynne Kiesling Courtesy of Glenn Reynolds, an article from Patrick Cox on the health benefits of Vitamin D, which complements my earlier post on the subject. He makes a point that I had not made explicit: in doing the relative risk assessment of sun exposure and wearing sunscreen, there is some evidence suggesting that higher …
Lynne Kiesling The snowy weather across much of the northern hemisphere this week is being disruptive in many ways. At the Freakonomics blog, Eric Morris highlights one unanticipated and unintended disruption — snow obscuring energy-efficient LED traffic lights: The biggest weakness of LEDs is their biggest strength – they don’t radiate much heat. What on …
Lynne Kiesling The Oatmeal is a great one-man operation with outstanding, witty visual representations of a range of topics, including 10 Things You Need To Stop Tweeting About. For this one he earns my undying gratitude: 10 Words You Need To Stop Misspelling Love.Love.Love. Will be sharing with all of my students. I wish I …
Lynne Kiesling Count me among the economists who enjoyed the Wall Street Journal’s funny article about how cheap we are. But I also get a lot of pleasure out of trimming the Christmas tree, so I’m not inclined to be so stringent in following comparative advantage that I want to hire someone to do so. …
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Lynne Kiesling Ever since David Luhnow’s article in the Wall Street Journal on how drug legalization in the U.S. could reduce the horrific violence going on in Mexico right now, I have been mulling over writing about it. Happily, David Henderson has done so at Econlog, and much of his commentary is along the lines …
Lynne Kiesling The Consumer Electronics Show has started, and we device and gadget geeks are having fun! One thing I noticed quickly is in this Engadget post about Oregon Scientific’s new device offerings: Look at the device on the far right — it’s a wireless appliance manager “to help users keep an eye on how …
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Lynne Kiesling … goes to Tunku Varadarajan, in his Daily Beast column today about terrorism and air security: Of course, it may be that the one way to ensure a grassroots Democrats clamor for action against terrorism is to call it “anthropogenic”… Hah, climate policy humor!
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