Lynne Kiesling The headline of this Forbes article reads “What Would You Pay To Stay Cool?” Using pending Congressional energy legislation as the springboard for the article, Ashlea Ebeling does a very good job of discussing the combination of digital technology and dynamic pricing that can transform the electric power network into a more resilient, …
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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 …
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 …
Michael Giberson A surge in the demand for ethanol — touted as a greener alternative to gasoline — could have a serious environmental downside for the Chesapeake Bay, because more farmers growing corn could mean more pollution washing off farm fields, a new study warned yesterday. A Washington Post story on the study paints a …
Lynne Kiesling How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor is an article in the May/June 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs by Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer. It’s a well-written, thorough analysis of the widespread effects of government policies favoring biofuels. Their focus is international, discussing EU initiatives on biodiesel as well as Brazil’s experience with cane-based …
Michael Giberson A number of prominent European energy economists, analysts and policy makers (and a couple of outsiders) are blogging at the “EU Energy Policy Blog.” Among the Europeans are Andris Piebalgs, Richard Green and Yves Smeers; two American contributers are Paul Joskow and Steven Stoft. On July 1, William Nuttall posted “Why is Nuclear …
Lynne Kiesling The subject has roiled for the past few months: if the balance of the evidence has shifted toward the value of our taking more actions to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, should the U.S. implement a carbon tax or a carbon market? Stated that bluntly, and based on centuries of experience with taxes …
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Lynne Kiesling Harvard economist Ed Glaeser has a nice column in today’s Boston Globe in which he proposes a “road map for environmentalism” (HT to Greg Mankiw). I think it’s a thoughtful and substantially correct analysis and pragmatic set of proposals; in particular, his emphasis on the importance of rethinking current policies and the extent …
Lynne Kiesling As economic growth continues to drive up demand for petroleum-based energy, foreign supplies are fraught with geopolitical costs, and concerns about the environmental effects of fuel use increase, energy prices rise and we naturally seek out alternatives to the oil we’ve become accustomed to using over the past century. One potentially attractive option …
Lynne Kiesling How cool is this? Purdue engineering researchers have made major progress on a new internal combustion engine design, using variable valve actuation. One remarkable innovation in this research is removing the connection between the crankshaft and the camshaft, which is what drives the pistons up and down. This design has been at the …
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