Lynne KIesling Can someone please explain the logic of the argument in this Wired Autopia blog post to me? EV advocates say the California Air Resources Board is trying to kill the electric car — again. Under a proposal pending before the Air Resources Board, state regulators would slash — from 75,000 to as few …
How is Changing a Government Mandate “Killing” the Electric Car? Read More »
Michael Giberson Usually, with annual Spring price increases, we hear the perennial allegations of gasoline price gouging from politicians. Despite all the talk about high gasoline prices, there hasn’t been a lot of talk about price gouging this year. The precise meaning of the term “price gouging” is sometimes hard to pin down, but a …
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Lynne Kiesling Courtesy of Slashdot, and following up on Mike’s spectrum auction post from earlier this month, the 700 MHz spectrum auction has come to a close. From the New York Times blog post mentioned in the Slashdot article: The winning bids totaled $19,592,420,000. That’s nearly double the amount the commission had hoped to raise …
Lynne Kiesling Have you seen the Galvin Electricity Initiative Sad Socket ad? In the half-century since our electric power system was completed, little has been done to update it — and it shows. We’re relying on an obsolete electricity grid that is dangerously vulnerable, even to forces as predictable as thunderstorms and as tiny as …
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Lynne Kiesling Mike’s two recent posts about turning animal waste in to electric power and John Doerr’s focus on methane recovery from animal waste prompt me to mention one of the innovative entrepreneurs in this space: RealEnergy. RealEnergy builds, installs, and manages distributed generation and combined heat and power (CHP) systems, and can do so …
Michael Giberson From Scientific American online, “What Can Virtual-World Economists Tell Us about Real-World Economies?“: Eyjólfur Guðmundsson is the only economist on Earth who spends his days studying the fluctuating cost of warp-disruption batteries and T2 light drones. That’s because he’s the world’s first virtual-world economist. This past August, Guðmundsson took up residence in EVE …
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Michael Giberson At Platt’s The Barrel blog, Dave Ernsberger writes that, “no one particularly loves an economist, especially the ones that work at Wall Street banks.” But then he recalls that, about three years ago when oil prices were about $55/barrel, Goldman Sachs economist Arjun N. Murti briefly became famous in energy and finance circles …
Foreseeing $105/barrel Oil: a Reason to Love an Economist Read More »
Lynne Kiesling I am in Frisco, Texas for the next couple of days, to participate in KEMA’s Executive Forum in Retail Energy Markets, including moderating a panel of clean tech energy entrepreneurs. Should be fun!
Lynne Kiesling I found a couple of interesting climate change articles over the weekend. First, this Foreign Affairs article discusses the geopolitical implications of Arctic ice cap melting; it creates and destroys territory in ways that various Arctic (and non-Arctic) nation-states are responding to by trying to stake property claims to the territory. Hmmm … …
Lynne Kiesling If you’re looking for a nice overview and an update on the smart grid ideas, technologies, and business strategies we’ve been discussing here at KP for a few years, check out this Currents podcast from PennWell: We’re actually seeing real-world implementation of smart grid technologies and starting to realize some of the benefits …
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