Michael Giberson … Texas does the non-carbon thing in a pretty big way, too. Tom Fowler, at NewsWatch: Energy, pulls together some numbers. Among his points (edited and slightly rearranged): Texas leads the nation in greenhouse gas emissions; and If Texas were a country, it would rank seventh in the world in greenhouse gas emissions. …
Lynne Kiesling Lots of folks who worry about climate change argue for large-scale collective action, usually taking the form of some sort of government intervention that involves some degree of coercion. Guest-blogging at Instapundit, Megan McArdle makes a very trenchant observation about how self-reflective virtuous behavior can reduce the need for collective action, in this …
“Bourgeois Commitments to Virtue” Reduce Collective Action Problems Read More »
Michael Giberson Spanish company Abengoa Solar and Arizona Public Service Company have announced plans to build a large solar powered electric generator, to come online in 2011, but like many such announcements it comes with a couple of public-policy related “ifs”; they’ll build it if they get the necessary approvals from the Arizona utility regulator, …
Can Arizona Become the “Persian Gulf of Solar Energy”? Read More »
Michael Giberson Out in west Texas you can still see the occasional old-style wind mill on a farm or ranch, dutifully pumping up water when the wind blows. A much more common sight these days is the new, sleek wind power generator. A combination of good fundamentals for wind power, federal tax credits, state renewable …
Texas Wind Power: Gets by with a Little Help from Tax Credits Read More »
Lynne Kiesling I’m on an all-day videoconference here, so don’t have time to read and think and discuss the newly-released CBO report on carbon emission policies. But Daniel Hall at Common Tragedies has a thorough post with extensive links for you to follow. More later. UPDATE: See also this from the Economist’s Free Exchange and …
Lynne Kiesling This certainly qualifies for a “how cool is that?”: new research on amine sponges to separate and absorb carbon dioxide from flue gas. The idea is that they make a sponge material customized specifically to absorb carbon dioxide by combining amines with different metals to create pores of the right size. The researchers …
Lynne Kiesling This new article in Science tackles a question that I’ve had for years, and is creating a stir in the process: once you take into account the emissions of carbon during the corn growing process, what is the net effect of ethanol production and use on carbon concentrations? Most prior studies have found …
Biofuels and Carbon: Changing Land Use Makes Ethanol Increase Carbon Concentrations Read More »
Lynne Kiesling My colleague Andy Kleit and I are co-editing a book on electricity restructuring in Texas: A number of states have recently sought to increase competition in the electricity industry to drive down prices, increase supply, and improve service quality. Yet in the aftermath of the rolling blackouts and power shortages that afflicted California …
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Lynne Kiesling Since last week there’s been more discussion of the GridWise Olympic Peninsula Project that I discussed last week: a Business Week article on the project and a Gristmill post, a CNN Money article, the Solve Climate blog, and an Associated Press article that ran in USA Today. The last article also quotes me, …
More Coverage of the Gridwise Olympic Peninsula Project and Smart Grid Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Over the past week there has been quite a discussion online of the California Energy Commission’s proposal requiring mandatory customer thermostat reponse to emergency demand reduction signals. This New York Times article from Friday also discusses the CEC proposal, as does this ABC news affiliate story from San Francisco. See also the discussion …
Programmable Thermostat Regulations in California: Big Brother or Control Freaks? Read More »
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