Michael Giberson Holman Jenkins’s editorial on energy in yesterday’s WSJ seems to take the right approach: [W]e can’t drill our way out of the dilemmas of living in the world. But drilling is one of many things we can do that are worth doing. Over time, the price mechanism and technology will tell us how …
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Lynne Kiesling The KP Spouse has introduced me to The Register, kind of a British Slashdot news website for computer folks. It’s very useful for keeping abreast of technical news, without some of the inane comment threads that can ensue on Slashdot (although I still love Slashdot, just not the comments on the posts). I …
Lynne Kiesling Earlier this month Tom Friedman gave a talk at the Aspen Ideas Festival about his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded. I recommend all three of the video outtakes to all of you, regardless of your position on climate change, carbon policy, etc. In particular, the third clip where he discusses smart grid …
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From the Houston Chronicle: A majority of Texans would be willing to pay $4 more on their monthly electric bills to create a network of power lines from wind farms, according to a recent poll. The survey, commissioned by a group of wind generation companies, is being released in advance of state utility regulators’ debate …
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Michael Giberson T. Boone Pickens, the oil and gas billionaire now making a splash in wind energy, has released the “Pickens Plan” for reforming the U.S. energy landscape. In brief, use a lot more wind power to displace natural gas used in electric power generation, and use the natural gas to displace gasoline in transportation …
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Michael Giberson The Global Subsidies Institute takes note of a report on the consumer (and taxpayer) costs of ethanol-blended fuel in Missouri: A report from a Missouri-based research organization debunks the claim that Missourians are saving money through a state law requiring that retail gasoline contain a minimum of 10% ethanol. The report is in …
Michael Giberson On July 4, The Guardian newspaper reported: Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% – far more than previously estimated – according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by …
Lynne Kiesling Did the Reason article from the Kiesling/Bailey/Smith carbon policy panel that I linked to earlier this week just whet your appetite? Then this Reason Roundtable on Climate Change is for you! There has been much discussion in free market circles about market-based solutions to global warming that minimize the threat that big government …
Michael Giberson Rich Sweeney, at Common Tragedies, raises the question “Is dynamic pricing green?” Riffing off of Lynne’s article in Smart Grid News and a complementary post here on Knowledge Problem, Rich acknowledges that dynamic pricing for retail power can encourage load shifting away from peaks and may even reduce consumption overall. But, he suggests, …
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Lynne Kiesling Here’s an online edited version of the transcript, and a link to the video of a discussion panel that Ron Bailey, Fred Smith, and I did at a Reason in DC event in October 2007. It was a very lively conversation! The transcript is in the July 2008 print edition of Reason.
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