Future Pundit was full of all sorts of interesting news while I was gone, including this post on using bacteria to extract methane from coal (and a sidenote on carbon sequestration), and this post on new organic materials to make cheap solar panels. One remarkable thing to note in his discussion of the efficiency of …
10. Gorgeous weather — dry, sunny, overnight temps in the 50s, daytime temps in the 70s and 80s. 9. Gelato — ate some every day. The best quality and flavor combo we found was at a place in Florence called Vivoli, where we got the cioccolatta ricca (rich chocolate) and crema d’arancia (orange cream). We …
Knowledge Problem will be taking a two-week holiday, resuming on Sunday 21 September. I am headed to Budapest for a week to participate in the graduate student workshop of the Ronald Coase Institute and to present a paper at the annual conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE). After that, a week’s …
My friend Jim Johnston is very knowledgeable about energy markets, and he had a commentary in the Chicago Sun-Times last week on how to improve grid reliability. Thus, we have a new pattern of generation and consumption that overlies the older locally oriented grid structure. It is a prescription for disaster that promises to persist …
A lovely double entendre … I encourage you all to check out Marginal Revolution, a new blog by George Mason University economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok. Some of you may be familiar with Tyler from his research and his posting at The Volokh Conspiracy. Tyler and Alex are incredibly insightful and sure to be …
Okay, let’s review. In the last two weeks of August we had 1. a burst pipeline in Arizona 2. six refineries out of service for up to a week because of the blackout 3. an impending Labor Day holiday So the increase in gasoline prices was the result of price gouging, right? At least that’s …
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No surprise there: blackout took 7 refineries offline for a few days, there was a big pipeline rupture in Arizona, it’s coming up on Labor Day weekend … Here are some links to articles discussing the gas price spike, from the Los Angeles Times (registration required), CNN/Money, and the Associated Press. I agree with Stephen …
Here are a couple more articles on the obstacles facing a national energy policy: this New York Times article on how the nation’s governors have difficulty speaking with a unified voice on energy matters, and this New York Times article on the difficulties Congress faces in separating out an electricity bill from the large omnibus …
Morning: the cat sticks her wet little nose into your eye socket to wake you up. Husband makes tea, french toast and turkey bacon while you work on some electricity blackout writing. Weather: high of 78F, low humidity, not even a wispy cloud in the sky. 11:30-2:30: kayak in the 3-4 foot waves on Lake …
This post is the first from my brandy-new Macintosh Powerbook G4 12″ laptop. It’s utterly zippy — stylish, small, screamin’ fast, plays my Pride & Prejudice DVD and all of my tunes from my IPod beautifully. And I am grateful to my husband, whose technical virtuosity makes it possible for me to live in a …
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