Sitemap - 2008 - Knowledge Problem
U.S. Energy Consumption is Down
Update: The Forthcoming Dramatic Fall of Reported Oil Reserves
Would Someone Please Check the Price of Bread in Connecticut? Another Zone Pricing Post
"Congress Didn't Intend to Create Suvs"
The Blagojevich Saga: the Psychology of Power, and Rent-seeking
Hints About the Value of Smart Grid Technologies
Organ Donation As a Club Good Rather Than a Public Good
The Forthcoming Dramatic Fall of Reported Oil Reserves
Another Potentially Price-Responsive Appliance: the Dynamic Fridge
Couple of Bailout and Stimulus Links
New Analysis: California's Grid Can Accommodate More Renewables
Kids Don't Know Their History - Energy Czar and Atari
KP, Wordpress, Google Ranking, Domain Hosting ...
Biofuels: Where's Our Bailout?
KP Moves to Wordpress, Easily!
More on Wind Power, Negative Prices, Transmission, and the Production Tax Credit
New York Electric Power System Operator Reports Power Prices Drop As Fuel Costs Fall
Gasoline Prices in New York Three Weeks After the Zone Pricing Ban
Other Aspects of Chicago Politics: Cook County Commission's Sales Tax Increase
I'm Gonna Plagiarize Ed Lopez's Philosophy Here, Because It's Mine Too
Tom Friedman and Don Boudreaux: Arguments Against the Auto Bailout
More on Constitutional Institutional Design and Corruption
Steven Chu to Be Next U.S. Secretary of Energy
Abuse of Power Comes As No Surprise
A New Kp Bailout Rule of Thumb
Beware of Markets with Too Much Cash Chasing Too Few Good Deals
Notes on "Energy Czar"; a Reading Recommendation for the "Car Czar"
Bailouts and Stimuli: the Hubris of Centralized Control
Walmart's Increasingly Green Supply Chain
Walmart's Increasingly Green Supply Chain
You, Too, Can Arbitrage the Premium-midgrade-regular Gasoline Price Spread
(Almost) Live from New Orleans, Blogging the 2008 Usaee Conference
Project Better Place's Electric Vehicle Network, Now Coming to Hawaii
U.S. Auto Bailout: Still a Ridiculously Bad Idea
That $75 Per Barrel Figure from Opec is Interesting for Many Reasons.
Do You Know What the Car Company of the Future Should Look Like?
"Power Reports Battle It Out" and Other Energy News from the Houston Chronicle
Any Reason to Fear an International Gas Producers Cartel?
Worth Further Investigation: An Unexpected Drop in U.s. Electricity Consumption
More on Wind Power and Negative Prices
Does Hedging Against Fuel Price Movements Increase Airline Value?
Should All Energy Futures and Derivatives Contracts Trade on Regulated Exchanges?
"Automakers Must Be Allowed to Fail if They Are to Succeed."
A Subsidy-Free Policy for Green Energy and Innovation
Attorneys General, Not Attorney Generals
Can Politicians "Fix Up the Country"?
A Shift to Inconspicuous Consumption
"Exxon is a Cash Machine, and They Could Be Using That Cash to ..."
Auto Bailout: There's a Better Way
Crowdsourcing Can Produce New Ideas, but Run Them by Legal First...
Pop Sci Debunking Recycling Myths
The First Battery in the Country Capable of Storing Wind Energy?
If You Aren't Reading Bailout Sleuth Daily, You Should
This Week in 1856: Bessemer Becomes Man of Steel
Not the Only Car-of-the-future Looking for a Handout
Some Sound Economic Advice for Senator Obama
Different Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Under an Obama Administration
Students of Energy in Universities Today Will Find Themselves in a New World Tomorrow
Financial Theories Can Aid in Improving a Utility's Fuel Mix Diversity
Off-Topic College Football Haiku
Looking for Fingerprints Left in the Data
FERC Pushes RTOs on Demand Response, Shortage Pricing, and Other Wholesale Market Design Tweaks
Price Gouging: One Way to Avoid the Law's Reach is to Always Charge High Prices
OPEC's Production Cut + Oil Price Decline = Kp Laughter
A Roundup of Sensible Financial Bailout Commentary
Smart Garage: Where Your Electric Car Links Up with the Smart Grid
Electricity History: Edison and the Light Bulb
Informing Consumers About Energy Efficiency: Viral Communication
Some Good, and Not So Good, Water Policy Discussions
House Tweets to Monitor Energy Consumption
The Bailout As "Hayek's Revenge"
Nick Gillespie on the Bailout Bonanza
Glassbooth and Your Voting Preferences
Innovation in Complementary Goods: Hi-tech Gloves for Device-twiddling in Winter
The Search for Tomorrow's Oil Price
Even Oil Market Processes Are About the Interaction of Supply and Demand
Why a Big Increase in "Green Jobs" Might Be a Bad Sign
Bailout in the News, Or, 'why It is a Good Thing That Journalism is Just the First Draft.'
The Fallacy, and Danger, of Blaming Deregulation
Lessons from the Depression: Emergency Policies Can Prolong Weakness
But at Least Gas Prices Are Falling ...
Shoring Up the Commercial Paper Market
Most Erudite Comment on Bailout
A Bailout for Bicycle Commuters? Sweeeet!
An Alternative Approach to the Bailout: Enable Fast Recapitalization
Revised Bailout Plan: Ok, Now I'm Not Just Skeptical, I'm Angry and Disgusted
Geoff Style on Price Gouging and Gasoline Lines
Rggi - Results from the First U.S. Cap-and-Trade GHG Permit Auction
Love and Money - Another West Texas Wind Energy Story
Gasoline is Available in Lubbock at $3.35/gal.
Neil Netanel's "Copyright's Paradox"
More Definitive Evidence That Property Rights Improve Fishing Yields and Sustainability
Antitrust Policy Conference at Nu
First Rggi Auction Today, Results to Be Posted Monday
Supply Problem + Price Gouging Law = Rationing Gas by Running out
Good Summaries to Help Understand the Financial Turmoil
Financial Upheaval and the Energy Industry
Happy 217th Birthday to Michael Faraday!
Today's Record Nymex Oil Price Jump - Is It a Manipulative Squeeze?
Manchester United, Brought to You by the U.s. Treasury
Market Monitor Announced for Rggi Cap-and-trade Auctions
What to Make of This Rollercoaster Week?
Energy Storage on the Grid: Transmission Equipment or Market Participant?
New York Jets Auctioning Seat Licenses on Ebay
The History and Future of the Electric Meter
Why the Precipitous Decline in Oil Prices? Adapting to Changing Expectations
No Hydrogen-powered Car in Your Future
The Answer Is: "Oil Production"
Boone Pickens's New Book, Reviewed in the Wsj
A New Airline Business Model? Jet Blue Auctions Seats on Ebay
Fannie and Freddie and Taxpayer Risk
A Sunday Smart Grid and Energy Sampler
Gasoline Prices Dropping More Like a Rock Than a Feather
Why is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Unable to Operate During Power Outages?
Mississippi Attorney General Wants Power to Limit Price Increases in Advance of Emergencies
Nifty Smart Grid End Use Devices. But Are They Transactive?
Natural Gas Vehicle Stories from Around the Web
Insecure Property Rights May Be Helping to Maximize Current Russian Oil Output...
Boone Pickens - Texas Monthly on the Man Behind the Plan
Compressed Air Storage is Getting a Fresh Look
Surowiecki: That Uncertain Feeling
Retail Electric Power in Texas: Growing Pains or Just Pain?
Little Girl, You Need a License for That Fruit Stand
Vaclav Smil on the Pickens Plan for Wind Power and Natural Gas Vehicles
Power Market Seams Get Ferc Attention
Betting on the Weather As a Way to Manage Risks
Texas Court Favors Wind Turbines over Claims of Spoiled Views and Nuisance Noise
Useful Perspective on Speculation in Oil Markets
Peter Corsell on Smart Grid Technology
Will Pandora Be an Internet Radio Royalty Casualty?
The Consequences of Falling Oil Prices, and the Benefits of High Oil Prices
The Book is Available! Pricey, but Available
2007 Sci Am Blackout Article Worth Re-reading
Critiques of Obama's Oil Windfall Profits Tax Proposals
5-Year Blackout Anniversary Prompts Some Introspection
Consumer Behavior and $4 Gas: an Economics Case Study
The Inverted Metamorphic Triple-junction Solar Cell and Other Energy Items in the News
Senator Calls for Ferc Probe of Traders Using Lake Erie Loop Strategy
Dallas Vs. Houston: the Differences in Retail Power Charges
Is Market Concentration to Blame for Record High Oil Prices?
Is Market Concentration to Blame for Record High Oil Prices?
The Oil Market and Transfers of Wealth
Girl Talk, Copyright and Copyleft, and the Evolving Boundary of Fair Use
Energy is Not Scarce: Comment on Wilkinson on the Sustainability of Economic Growth
My Answer is Different from Tyler's
How Long Can Some Countries Continue Suppressing Gasoline Prices?
Do Retail Gasoline Prices Go Up Faster Than They Come Down?
New Nanotech Material Uses Waste Heat to Generate Electricity
New York Times on In-home Energy Monitoring Technologies
Severin Borenstein on Real-time Retail Electricity Pricing
Tom Friedman from Aspen on Energy and His New Book
"Elder Statesmen" Weigh in on Energy
Wsj: Gerald O'driscoll on Fannie and Freddie
Andy Grove: Energy Resilience, Not Energy Independence
Pirrong Explains Why Congressional Scapegoating of Oil Market Speculators Will Harm Consumers
Many Texans Willing to Pay a Little More to Get Wind Power
Megan Mcardle Live-blogs an Iphone Line
Giberson to Texas Tech University
Heavy Demand for Wind Power Exposes Weak Links in Supply Chain
Superconductor Electric Cables Move from Lab to Market
Combined Heat and Power Plants Killed by Gratuitous Delays
The Pickens Plan and Other Stories Involving Wind Energy
Oil Inventories Are Falling, but What Does It Mean?
Prediction Market Petitioners Urge Cftc to "First, Do No Harm"
Group Challenges Arizona Law Mandating Payments for Renewable Energy Supplies
Report Disputes Claim That Missouri Law Requiring Ethanol in Gasoline Saves Consumer Money
Unpublished World Bank Report Puts Biofuel Mandates to Blame for 75 Percent Increase in Food Prices
Happy 4th, and the End of Our Lewis & Clark Bike Odyssey
United States Association for Energy Economics Working Paper Series
Up the Yangtze: A Meditation on Change in China
No, Speculation Does Not Explain Oil Prices
Responding to Higher Energy Costs, the Home Building Version
Wind Power and Real-time Pricing: Mutual Benefits
Electricity Market Pricing and How to Think About It
KP Vacation: Biking the Lewis & Clark Trail
$4 Gas is Changing Consumer Behavior
On the Morality of Raising Prices in an Emergency
Current and Future State of Regional Wholesale Electricity Markets
Can You Spot the Attitude Difference?
The Importance of Energy Storage for Integrating Renewables
Radical Ignorance and Knightian Uncertainty: Bryan's Thinking Too Hard ...
Climate Change Roundable at Reason
Toyota's Long-term Vehicle Strategy: Move Beyond Petroleum
Fairness Reasoning in the Abstract and the Concrete
The Demand for Gasoline is Downward Sloping, How About That?
Economist on Intelligent Appliances and Energy Efficiency
Will Dynamic Retail Power Prices Help the Environment?
Ron Bailey, Fred Smith, and I Discuss Climate Change at Reason
Use Operations Research to Maximize Value in a Train Network
Interesting Solar Developments
Government Hurricane Reinsurance :headdesk: :headdesk:
My Book's on Amazon, So It Must Be True
New Economics Blog: Market Urbanism
The Smart Grid/dynamic Pricing Synergy
Conservation of Resources: Prices Change Everything
Making Jstor into a Public Treasure
Price Gouging Laws: Emotions, Economics, and Policy
A Cool Interactive Regional Produce Map
The L Prize: A Prize for Lighting Innovation
Ocean Thermal Power Systems Back Under Development
September 9: Release Date for Neal Stephenson's New Book
Some Anecdotal Data on Driving Behavior Change
Real-time Feedback Promotes Efficient Use of Energy
Stanley Cup Finals (you Know What's Next ...)
Why We Will Never Reach Our Smart Grid Goals
Alaska Natural Gas Line Ready to Take Off, Just As Soon As Politicians Get Things Sorted
Google's Renewable Energy Investments
Wind Power's Growth in the U.Ss.
Triathlon Training Update at the Beginning of the Season
FERC Proceedings Continue for Alleged Gas Market Manipulator
Parents, Talk to Your Kids About Petroleum
Ip Alert: BBC Threatens Dr. Who Knitters
What Good Are Prediction Markets? Asks the CFTC
Would Making Insider Trading Restrictions Optional for Corporations Suffice?
Fishing for Red Snapper in the Gulf: Quotas and Derbies
TV Technology, Economics, and My Rediscovered Love of Hockey
A Sheepy, Woolly Weekend, and Some Economics of It
Stupidity, or Political Expediency?
"Farmer Johnson, Plant More Corn"
Piling on the Criticism of a Summer Gas Tax Holiday
Thrills! Chills! High Oil Prices! A Roller-coaster Ride of Excitement!
"There's No Such Thing As a Free Carbon Cap"
No Gouging or Other Manipulation Found in Study of Washington State Gasoline Prices
A Longer View of the Retail Gasoline Experience in Vermont
More on Ethanol Policy and Food Prices
The Crescendo of the Biofuels/Food Interaction
Who Would You Back: the Market Consensus or Book-writing Pundits?
"Decade of Deregulation Felt in Climbing Bills": Costs by Category
EZ-Zone? Freeflow? Would Congestion Pricing by Another Name, Smell Sweeter?
Lobbying for Wind and Solar Power Tax Credits: Hurry "We're Looking at 116,000 Jobs at Risk"
Becker and Posner on Food Prices and the New Neo-malthusians
New York Post on Gambling on Politics
Collusion in Ascending Price Auctions: Rggi Auction Designers Respond to Comments
Latest Farmer Vs. Rancher Epic from Texas Centers on Ethanol
Do Utilities Love Cap-and-Trade?
The Environmental Economics 'lost Green Jobs Challenge'
Viet Nam Seeks to Develop Competitive Power Industry
The One Small Silver Lining in $100/barrel Oil and Other Stories of Energy, Economy, and Policy
The Kansas Coal Carbon Tax Caper
American Wind Power Center in Lubbock, Texas
It's Moving Day <em>CHEZ</em> Kp
How is Changing a Government Mandate "Killing" the Electric Car?
Reliable Power: the Winds of West Texas Vs. a Maintenance Worker Mistake in Florida
Price Gouging: At the Intersection of Emotions, Ethics, and Economics
Energy Efficient Homes Appealing to Buyers in Texas
"Why Are Gasoline Prices So High?"
Sad Socket: Galvin Electricity Initiative's New Ad
Peel-and-stick Solar Panels for Phoenix Convention Center
Think Alan Greenspan--Only in Battlestar Galactica
Rggi Picks Uniform-Price Sealed-Bid Auction Design for First Regional Co2 Auction in US
Foreseeing $105/barrel Oil: a Reason to Love an Economist
Alternative Energy: John Doerr Calls It the Largest Economic Opportunity of the 21st Century
Xcel Will Make Boulder Colorado Its First "Smart Grid City"
"The First Widespread Pocket Desktop Computer"
Turning Cattle, Swine and Poultry Waste into Electric Power
Analysis out of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center
A Couple of Interesting Climate Change Articles
Ip Rights and Complementary Products: the Economics of Apple's Iphone Sdk
Whatever Happened to the Fcc's Big Spectrum Auction?
How Can Arizona Become a Solar Power Exporter if It Opposes Building Interstate Power Lines?
Why Should the State Own Wrigley Field?
Clean Tech: Nanotech Lithium Energy Storage
This Day in Bridge Engineering History
Ercot Broke Rules During Wind Emergency...
Kling on Kurzweil on Solar Power, with an Aside on Politics
Undergraduate Energy Business Program at Houston Recognized by Business Week
Firm Planning a Coal-fired Power Plant Hopes for Federal Greenhouse Gas Law
Update on Florida Substation Fire
Meanwhile, in Texas, a Brief Lull in the Wind
The Obstacles to the Smart Grid Are Regulatory
Texas Does Carbon Big, and That's Not All...
"Bourgeois Commitments to Virtue" Reduce Collective Action Problems
Can Arizona Become the "Persian Gulf of Solar Energy"?
Welcome to the New Knowledge Problem!
Texas Wind Power: Gets by with a Little Help from Tax Credits
CBO Report on Carbon Emission Policies
Carbon Sequestration Using Amine Sponges
Electricity Deregulation, Texas-style: Aei Conference Available on Video
Movable Type Migration Glitches
Biofuels and Carbon: Changing Land Use Makes Ethanol Increase Carbon Concentrations
Welcome to the New-Ish Knowledge Problem!
College Hockey: #1 Miami Vs. #2 Michigan
Will Wilkinson on Hume and the Refinement of Tastes
Tyler Sums Up My Cynicism About Politics
The $86 Ticket to the Super Bowl
Research Roundtable on Innovation
Am I a Pathetic Late Adopter, or Just a Curmudgeon?
How Do You Know if a Prediction Market is Any Good?
What Institutional Framework for Electric Power Transmission?
Texas Electric Choice: The Power is Yours. Use It.
Market Power in Maryland Power, and Other Economics Stories in the News
Geeky Friday Fun: Chocolate Chips Are Distributed Poisson
Upcoming Aei Conference: Texas Electricity Restructuring
Tacit Knowledge and Prediction Markets
Yes, This is Real Congestion Pricing for Airports*
More Coverage of the Gridwise Olympic Peninsula Project and Smart Grid
Pre-Auction Jitters at the FCC
Congestion Fees Coming to Airports?
Regulation of Networks when Networks Cross Political Borders
Programmable Thermostat Regulations in California: Big Brother or Control Freaks?
Folly of Pursuing Energy Independence
Package Bidding Auction Design for the Fcc’s Upcoming 700 Mhz Spectrum Auction
A Quick Music Recommendation: Jukebox the Ghost
At the Intersection of Prediction Markets and Basketball Tournaments
Arizona Utility Proposes to Ramp Up Peak Rates
Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline, One of Five Proposals Advances