Lynne Kiesling This Wired article summarizes and links to a poster for the American Geophysical Union meetings (pdf) from Elaine Hart, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. Her power flow simulation suggests that the existing transmission network in California can accommodate up to 70% of renewables in the portfolio on a …
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Lynne Kiesling Via Ron Bailey at Reason: the biofuels industry asks where their bailout is. I had to chuckle when Ron pointed out that the Renewable Fuels Association says that they, unlike other lobbying organizations, are offering ideas instead of just asking for a handout. OK, I did more than chuckle … Ron quotes a …
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Lynne Kiesling I’m gonna beat Mike to the punch on this one: Weekend 1 of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will include Wynton Marsalis & the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, as well as my local band Wilco! It’s 24-26 April … hmmm, right now the calendar looks open. Have to see if I …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve been blogging for almost six years now (yikes!), first using Blogger and then under the Knowledge Problem brand using Movable Type. Movable Type is great, and it has served me well. But the programming environment has gotten more complicated over those six years, and while I am of a geeky bent, I’m …
Lynne Kiesling While you are at the Chicago Tribune editorial page reading the local media commentary on our [sarcasm]humble and noble public servant Governor Blagoevich[/sarcasm], take a look at the sales tax calendar: Here’s the story: our Cook County government is allegedly full of a lot of the types of patronage politics that we’ve been …
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Lynne Kiesling In the comments on Will Wilkinson’s post to which I just linked, Ed Lopez offers a statement of philosophy that expresses my own beliefs more clearly and eloquently than I am capable of doing: Your post is why I consider myself a philosophical anarchist. I would love to have a government to which …
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Lynne Kiesling Tom Friedman and Don Boudreaux are making different, but complementary, arguments against the auto bailout. If you think that you recognize Tom Friedman’s argument in his most recent NYT column, you should: he is analyzing Better Place and its business model, which I did in this post from December 5. One important point …
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Lynne Kiesling Yesterday when I was channeling my inner Jenny Holzer on the relationship between political power and corruption, I quoted James Madison in the comments: In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige …
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Lynne Kiesling I was in Texas on Tuesday for a meeting with an electricity retailer, and when the CEO came in and greeted me with “nice to see you again; did you hear that your governor was just arrested?”, I thought it was fallout from the long-standing investigation of Illinois political corruption that the U.S. …
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