Lynne Kiesling Kevin Bullis at Technology Review has a nice post that dispels some misunderstandings about plug-in hybrid vehicles. I encourage you to follow his links and to learn more about plug-in hybrids, how they work, and what benefits they introduce into the entire electricity ecosystem, in particular, their article on “how plug-in hybrids will …
Lynne Kiesling Michael Boskin will be on the Council of Economic Advisers for Gaia Online, Gaia Interactive announced Monday morning that Michael Boskin, still a Hoover senior fellow and Stanford professor, will become chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors for Gaia Online, a virtual world that attracts 2.5 million monthly participants who engage in …
Lynne Kiesling Jacob Sullum has a choice post on intellectual property, copyright, and fashion designs, one of my pet issues. Technological change is behind the pressure that fashion designers are creating to bring their work under copyright: Now that photographs of Fashion Week models are available immediately for analysis by software that allows overseas factories …
Michael Giberson A forthcoming American Economic Review article was noted online by US News & World Report: Over the past two decades, huge swaths of the economy have been deregulated, from banking to electricity to airlines. But has competition increased efficiency? In a paper forthcoming in the American Economic Review, a group of academics from …
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Michael Giberson At The Eisenthal Report, market manager David Eisenthal provides an update on the Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District Democratic Primary Prediction Market that he set up at Inkling: At various times, Rep. Barry Finegold (D – Andover), Rep. Jamie Eldridge (D – Acton), and Niki Tsongas have all led the field. As the election …
Lynne Kiesling I have been remiss in not recommending to you the New Daedalus blog by Toby Considine, one of the most visionary folks I know in the intelligent buildings and IT space. His post about information and behavior changes discusses the visual information transmission technology used at Southern California Edison to signal price changes …
Lynne Kiesling Data center power use has become substantial over the past decade, as computing has increased and computing power has intensified, so we have smaller processors doing ever more work, requiring ever more electricity. These processors also give off more waste heat, requiring more cooling, which requires more electricity; indeed, data center cooling has …
Lynne Kiesling It was pretty hot on the East Coast a couple of weeks ago, wasn’t it? The kind of heat that drives up the use of air conditioning and creates electricity demand spikes near system capacity, threatening service reliability. But there were no blackouts, no brownouts … what gives? Price signals and demand response, …
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Lynne Kiesling Today’s New York Times has a column by Thomas Friedman, “Go Green And Save Money” (TimesSelect $$), on the importance of energy efficiency for both reducing costs and reducing overall resource use. In it Friedman draws attention to the crucial fact that both electricity use and prices are determined by the interaction of …
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Lynne Kiesling I just want to amplify what Mike just said about the difference between AMR and AMI, and why you, the non-energy-professional, should care. Over the past couple of decades, some utilities have been putting in new meters with AMR capabilities when they’ve had to replace meters. AMR meters are only capable of one-way …
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