Lynne Kiesling Randall Parker at FuturePundit has a post noting Stanford economist David Victor’s analyses of ethanol, as found in this Technology Review interview with him. I generally agree with David’s remarks (we met several years ago in Mexico, and he has lots of expertise in energy and environment, particularly in developing countries), and with …
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Lynne Kiesling Tyler Cowen on income inequality in the NY Times; see also comments from Don Boudreaux at Café Hayek and Mark Thoma at The Economist’s View. This Technology Review article on EEstor’s new battery-ultracapacitor for energy storage. EEstor claims that their battery hybrid has 10 times the capacity of a traditional battery at half …
Lynne Kiesling The Washington Post gives a ummary of the energy policy points in the State of the Union address. The consensus: no big change. John Whitehead concurs at Environmental Economics.
Lynne Kiesling Check out this NPR story about the installation of smart digital electric meters in the Southern California Edison service territory. Millions of Californian consumers could soon know the real costs of their electricity with the debut of the Smart Meter. Environmentalists and economists believe this will make them more careful about how and …
Lynne Kiesling I have my ideas, but instead you should read this outstanding and clear post from Jim Hamilton at Econbrowser. He does a superb job of analyzing the macroeconomic factors that intersect with other commodity market drivers.
Lynne Kiesling I apologize in advance for tooting my own horn twice in a row; first Beckham and now this … Over dinner Friday night with the KP Spouse and a couple of old economist friends, one friend asked me what I would do in Iraq. I told him I would pay efficiency wages to …
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Lynne Kiesling Because of the web site trauma here and the AEA meetings I am late to the party, but Austan Goolsbee’s NYT Economic Scene column from Thursday is a worthy read. He makes a point that I’ve made here several times: over the past 50 years we have increasingly gotten more bang for the …
Michael Giberson The Texas PUC has released its “2007 Scope of Competition in Electric Markets in Texas” report. The Dallas Morning News reported a story headlined Power company competition not working, report says. The story said: The report offered suggestions for the Legislature as it goes into session next month, including ideas that would cut …
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Lynne Kiesling James Surowiecki had a nice little column about sugar and ethanol tariffs in the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago. As is his wont, he concisely summarizes the pros and cons of ethanol, focusing on the higher net energy balance that cane sugar ethanol has relative to corn ethanol. He also applies …
Lynne Kiesling Mike beat me to it in commenting on David Cay Johnston’s NYT article from Wednesday about grid congestion. My thoughts are somewhat different from Mike’s, for what it’s worth. Johnston hits on one of the most pressing problems in electricity restructuring, although I’m going to frame it differently from how he does: technological …
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