Lynne Kiesling Toyota has prototyped a plug-in hybrid Prius, which will enable the vehicle to be plugged in to charge its battery instead of using the gasoline engine to do so. This type of versatility can have a variety of implications for the electric power network in the future, most interestingly (at least to me), …
Lynne Kiesling I’m still out in Montana, attending a Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment conference on energy for federal judges and law professors. Today I’m talking about one of my favorite topics: prices to devices! So far I’ve learned a lot, including a very interesting presentation from University of Illinois professor Bob …
Michael Giberson In a speech yesterday, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President William Poole said, “The importance of recent energy developments is less than their high visibility leads many to believe.” The WSJ Real Time Economics blog further reports: “There are certainly strains from the high price of energy,” but “there is no energy …
Lynne Kiesling From Reason, a good read from Steve Chapman on energy efficiency, particularly stricter fuel efficiency mandates. He does a good job of doing something that not enough people think about: people object to policies that will increase the price of gasoline (such as a gas tax, a carbon tax, or carbon trading), but …
Lynne Kiesling This entry at Wired’s blog Autopia points out a new National Petroleum Council study that says that the U.S. will have to develop lots of alternate energy sources over the next 25 years, and that until we do so, expect gas prices to remain high.
Michael Giberson One of the difficulties that beset planned economies is that without good prices for retail goods, it becomes difficult to price capital goods well. Of course, without good prices for capital goods, it become hard to allocate capital goods to their best use, and resources become wasted. (I think we can credit Ludwig …
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Lynne Kiesling Here’s an interesting Technology Review interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, talking about about the new ideas and creativity that flourish when you just define the platform and let the participants create the content. A good complexity and emergent order read.
Lynne Kiesling Sometimes the old ideas become new again … such is the case with chill storage or ice storage. Say you have a big high-rise building with air conditioning installed. In peak hours on hot days, your air conditioning use puts a lot of strain on the network, threatening a blackout. So if you …
Lynne Kiesling How many of you have done this? You’re puttering around on the Internet, and a shoe moment strikes: hey, wonder what Zappos has that might catch my interest. I’m in the market for, say, a pair of black ballet flats, but they can’t be too flat, and they have to have some insole …
Lynne Kiesling Back in 1790, the authors of the Constitution of the United States included copyright in the property rights protections provided in the Constitution: [The Congress shall have Power…] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings …
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