Lynne Kiesling Seriously, I laughed on Friday when I read the headlines and articles about how OPEC cut its production targets, and yet world oil prices fell. Why did I laugh? Largely because it’s a combination of factors that illustrates that market outcomes are consequences of the interplay of supply and demand. So much of …
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Lynne Kiesling I did not link to or comment on Jacob Weisberg’s “The End of Libertarianism” Slate column last week, both because I thought it unprofessionally, factually incorrect, and because I have a strong rule about avoiding troll-feeding. But sometimes even druck and mire bring valuable results. A few folks have written thoughtful, informative, valuable …
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Lynne Kiesling Tuesday was the 129th anniversary of Edison’s invention of the incandescent light bulb, and Wired commemorated it with this very nice article. It tells the narrative well, from Humphrey Davy to arc lighting, with Edison using his telegraph profits to fund his research, to spending 14 months developing a light bulb that lasted …
Lynne Kiesling Informing individuals about the resource use and environmental consequences of their energy consumption can be surprisingly difficult. Do you ever read the little flyers that your utility or your energy retailer puts in your bill? Nope, I don’t either. But in general we’re pretty clueless about our energy consumption, because we do not …
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Lynne Kiesling David Zetland, call your office! Here are a couple of thought-provoking water articles I’ve recently read: 1. Peter Gleick on water policy in Wired: 8 proposals, and not a single one says a single thing about improving price signals to discipline water use! How can he claim to have any kind of serious, …
Some Good, and Not So Good, Water Policy Discussions Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Which is greener using a life-cycle analysis: walking to my nearby standard supermarket and buying standardly-commercial produce and meat, or driving the 5.4 miles (10.8 miles round trip) to Green Grocer and buying organic, locally-sourced produce and meat? I suspect it’s the former. BUT (a) such a calculation ignores any quality differential between …
Lynne Kiesling I have been playing around with Twitter for the past few weeks, and it sure is intriguing. Most of my Twitter stream is BBC news updates and playlist updates for a couple of online radio sites that I frequent, but the one about which I’m most excited is andy_house, which is the Twitter …
Lynne Kiesling University of Illinois law professor Larry Ribstein calls the financial bailout “Hayek’s revenge”: Markets are bigger and more complex than any one set of regulators can comprehend, even Henry Paulson, … Thanks to Café Hayek for the link.
Lynne Kiesling This EcoGeek post addresses a pet topic of mine: if we are going to invest in renewable electricity generation technologies, we should start by coupling the energy-related benefits with other benefits, particularly at this point when renewables are not yet price-competitive. Solar parking lot canopies are a great example of this idea. I …
Lynne Kiesling Iceland’s financial and banking industries are really in turmoil right now. Yesterday I heard good NPR story on what’s going on in Iceland that can give you a sense of what’s going on (although I agree with the commenter that Melissa Block characterizing Iceland as “a pretty backward country” was incorrect and inappropriate). …
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