Michael Giberson at Knowledge Problem points to recent press coverage of the profoundly negative and perverse role being played by public utilities and their regulators. Who knows, but isn`t there an opportunity here for market liberals and environmentalists to push for deregulation and greater competition...
"If you cannot measure it; You cannot improve it." -- Lord Kelvin I noted in February (" Empowering power consumers: Google beta tests software to give consumers real-time info ") that Google , whose climate change-related efforts I've blogged about previously , has been beta...
The incessant calls for - and criticism of - government-funded/mandated "green/clean power" pork both ignore root causes and potential common ground. As a result, both sides of the debate are largely talking past each other, one talking about why there is a pressing need for government policy...
[Snark Factor: Ridiculously High ] In honor of Earth Day, yesterday Dr. George Reisman , Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics , put up a fun little post that mocks the full-employment arguments made by President Obama on behalf of...
"If you cannot measure it; You cannot improve it." -- Lord Kelvin Consistent with its mission to "organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful," Google , whose climate change-related efforts I've blogged about previously , is trying to help...
A hodge-podge of state and federal regulations is keeping costs high and interfering with the development of competitive power markets. Paul L. Joskow , current President of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation and former Head of the MIT Department of Economics (now on leave) and former Director of the MIT...
David Talbot , chief correspondent for the MIT Technology Review , has an excellent, long piece in the January/February online issue that explores some the of intra- and inter-state regulatory hurdles that frustrate both the expansion of renewable power and a truly free power market. I'd like to...