Lynne Kiesling Let me extend the discussion of the Washingto Post article on Pepco’s metering and pricing pilot that Mike mentioned yesterday. I have not discussed these pilots with anyone at Pepco, nor have I been able to glean any information from their website. Here’s a PR hint, guys: if you have a cool pilot …
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Lynne Kiesling We’ve written a lot about ethanol here at KP, including a post on the excellent Runge & Senauer Foreign Affairs article, which remains a recommended read (and which I assigned to my freshman seminar this fall). Now the Economist is on the story; their cover this week has a striking photo and a …
Lynne Kiesling Hi folks, things here are crazy busy, with the end of the quarter and some waaaaay overdue work that I’m catching up on. Today and tomorrow I’ll be attending the Research Roundtable on the Law and Economics of Innovation at the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University. It …
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Lynne Kiesling I’m not one to see everything through the lens of gender, but this is pretty cool: for the first time in its nine-year history, girls have won all of the grand prizes at the Siemens math and science competition: Siemens Foundation President James Whaley says the percentage of girls entering the competition has …
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Lynne Kiesling Today my head is full of music, not economics (OK, most days my head is full of music …). Last night we saw Handel’s Julius Caesar in Egypt (Giulio Cesare in Egitto) at the Lyric. It’s the Lyric premiere of the David McVicar production from Glyndebourne in England. Wow. I was transfixed for …
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Lynne Kiesling A company called Skyonic is using sodium hydroxide to turn carbon dioxide into baking soda, with chlorine and hydrogen as by-products; the process captures 90 percent of the carbon dioxide coming out of smoke stacks and mixes it with sodium hydroxide to make sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda. The energy required for the …
Lynne Kiesling From New Zealand, a newly-discovered bacterium that lives at high temperatures and eats methane. Is it possible to add them to landfills without creating invasive species problems? Maybe. Still, quite interesting. Thanks to Slashdot for the link.
Lynne Kiesling Here’s an interesting development: one of my favorite bands, Red Hot Chili Peppers, are suing Showtime for calling their new show starring David Duchovny “Californication”: “Californication is the signature CD, video and song of the band’s career, and for some TV show to come along and steal our identity is not right,” the …
Lynne Kiesling Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I have a LOT for which to be grateful this year, and I won’t bore you with the details. But I will leave you with a cautionary note from Reason.tv’s interview with chef Anthony Bourdain entitled “Better Enjoy Your Foie Gras Now”. Here in Chicago we cannot buy …
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Lynne Kiesling Today’s a big national travel day, and many of us are flying about. Painful. As we’ve discussed here before, airport takeoff-landing slot congestion pricing would be the most sensible and efficiency-promoting policy, but the FAA, Congress, and the airlines are not inclined to implement anything sensible or efficiency-promoting. One of the outgrowths of …
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