Lynne Kiesling In anticipation of Movable Type 4.0 coming out of beta in the future, I have started thinking about feature, content, and design changes that might be desirable here. My short list: I am considering going back to a two-column format, which will make the side column waaaaaay long, because I don’t really want …
Lynne Kiesling Ted Samson at InfoWorld’s Sustainable IT blog had a pretty thorough post last week about smart grid technology and its economic and operational value. Essentially, a smart grid is an intelligent electricity-delivery system, through which energy suppliers and consumers are all interconnected through a network. Smart meters are installed at homes and business …
Lynne Kiesling Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal had an article by Rebecca Smith that discussed some of the most innovative residential electricity service offerings in the country. She accurately points out how the combination of dynamic pricing and innovative end-user technology can empower residential customers to observe their actual electricity use, control their own behavior, and …
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Lynne Kiesling Have you all seen the FlightStats site? It’s got loads of travel tools, including a real-time flight tracker. I used it last week to time my trip to the airport to pick Diane up. Highly recommended, particularly in light of the predicted travel delays for the rest of the summer.
Lynne Kiesling How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor is an article in the May/June 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs by Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer. It’s a well-written, thorough analysis of the widespread effects of government policies favoring biofuels. Their focus is international, discussing EU initiatives on biodiesel as well as Brazil’s experience with cane-based …
Lynne Kiesling A few mergers have been in the news recently, including the Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger that the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Trade Commission has decided it will challenge. In February I commented that I thought the appropriate market in which both firms compete includes options like Trader Joe’s and community agriculture. Apparently …
Lynne Kiesling Seeing the Police at Wrigley Field last week has reinvigorated my too-long dormant fascination with Stewart Copeland. And I’m not alone; Sun-Times music critic Jim DeRogatis turns out to be the same age as I am, and to have had similar behavior when attending Police concerts the first time around: I first saw …
A Final Comment on the Police Concert and Stewart Copeland Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Thursday was a gorgeous day in Chicago; a bit humid, but it was still an amazing evening for The Police concert. Overall I thought it was a fantastic show, and unlike Greg Kot at the Tribune, I was perfectly happy with the start of the show (“Message In A Bottle”) and the fact …
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Lynne Kiesling Yeah, what he said. I agree with Mike’s previous post about real-world detail and experimental economics (and thanks for mentioning the Electricity Journal article!). The wind tunnel metaphor is apt for the use of experimental economics to test market designs and policy proposals; testing them in an environment that captures the most salient …
On Wednesday afternoon around 3:45 the power went out in areas of Manhattan and the Bronx in New York City. Although the outage lasted less then one hour, it was sufficient to cause traffic congestion and inconvenience to almost 400,000 customers on a hot, humid summer afternoon. This experience illustrates the challenges facing the electric …
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