Lynne Kiesling Here’s a great new source from the Wall Street Journal: Energy Roundup, an energy economics blog. Excellent! Welcome to the party. HT to Environmental Economics for the link; now let’s persuade Mr. Gongloff that KP should be on his list of “blogs we’re reading” …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve often wondered how nanotechnology can contribute to increased efficiency, load factor, and conservation of energy. My first thoughts were probably wrong; we don’t need nano-scale devices to perform remote monitoring and automated repair and self-correction within the wires network itself. Regular small-scale devices can do just fine for that. But here’s some …
Lynne Kiesling I am playing a little hooky this weekend and going skiing through Monday. In the interim, here are some thought-provoking reads: This Technology Review article on technological change in small-scale coal gasification that could be done on-site, in the home. Michael Dell is back in the news today, after taking back the CEO …
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 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 Jonathan Adler has a nice post about carbon policy in the US and Europe, building on an editorial in today’s WSJ (subscription required). Jonathan notes: While talking tough about the need to reduce emissions, many European nations are moving in the opposite direction. Only two (the United Kingdom and Sweden) look likely to …
Michael Giberson If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. A new study for the Department of Energy finds that “off-peak” electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel …
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Lynne Kiesling Landfills, mines, and livestock give off methane, a form of natural gas that could be used as fuel if it were captured and recycled in some useful way. Methane is also a potent greenhouse gas, and some research shows that controlling methane may actually lead to larger effects than controlling carbon dioxide emissions. …
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Lynne Kiesling Tongue in cheek, Tim Haab claims some credit for helping to bring about the shift in consumer behavior documented in a recently-released Cambridge Energy Research Associates study on gasoline. Punch line: America’s “love affair with the automobile” is being transformed — but not broken up — by forces that are redrawing the global …
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