Sitemap - 2008 - Knowledge Problem

U.S. Energy Consumption is Down

Tunecore and Musician Payment

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"

Couple of "Food Miles" Items

The Blagojevich Saga: the Psychology of Power, and Rent-seeking

Hints About the Value of Smart Grid Technologies

Merry Christmas, in Oleds!

Easy to Rig Bls Auction

Organ Donation As a Club Good Rather Than a Public Good

"10 Big Energy Myths"

The Forthcoming Dramatic Fall of Reported Oil Reserves

A Bike-Powered Phone Charger

Another Potentially Price-Responsive Appliance: the Dynamic Fridge

Couple of Bailout and Stimulus Links

End-of-year Best Album Lists

Almost Done with Anathem

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?

New Kp, New Kp Rss Feed

No Jazz & Heritage Lineup

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"

Czar Talk

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

Comments Are Not Posting

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?

Happy Thanksgiving

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?

Tuba Tuba Tuba!

Frequent Negative Power Prices in the West Region of Ercot Result from Wasteful Renewable Power Subsidies

"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

Zone Pricing Ban Coming to New York, Will the Results Affirm Policymakers' Hopes or Economists' Analyses?

Can Politicians "Fix Up the Country"?

A Shift to Inconspicuous Consumption

Global Deflation?

"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

Music is Heart-healthy!

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

The Running Bailout Tally ...

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

On Voting and Not Voting

Off-Topic College Football Haiku

A Halloween Playlist ...

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

Offshore Wind Power Proposal Rises from the Pacific, and Other Offshore Wind Power Stories in the News

Informing Consumers About Energy Efficiency: Viral Communication

Some Good, and Not So Good, Water Policy Discussions

Green or Not?

House Tweets to Monitor Energy Consumption

The Bailout As "Hayek's Revenge"

Solar Parking Lot Canopies

What's Going on in Iceland?

Nick Gillespie on the Bailout Bonanza

Glassbooth and Your Voting Preferences

Innovation in Complementary Goods: Hi-tech Gloves for Device-twiddling in Winter

Driving Less, Biking More

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?

Ibm Energy Podcast

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

Headed Home from Vacation

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

Wind Power and Transmission Capacity and Storage Are Complements (But They're Also Kind of Substitutes ...)

Evernote is My New Bff

Surowiecki: That Uncertain Feeling

Retail Electric Power in Texas: Growing Pains or Just Pain?

Little Girl, You Need a License for That Fruit Stand

Welcome Deep Glamour!

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?

Electricity Consumption and Autonomous Control: Technology and Prices to Devices for Decentralized Coordination

The Consequences of Falling Oil Prices, and the Benefits of High Oil Prices

The Book is Available! Pricey, but Available

Lisa Gold, Researcher

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

Well, That Was Fun ...

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

Tim Worstall in The Register

Massive Thunderstorms!

Lack of Coordination Between Rtos Provides Multi-million Dollar Gaming Opportunity to Some Market Participants - at the Expense of Others

Synapse Report on Ami Benefits for Residential Customers in New Jersey Undervalues Consumer Benefits Due to Its Narrow, Control-oriented Focus

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

Green Tech Media

Tom Friedman from Aspen on Energy and His New Book

Electricity Markets and Price Signals: Customer Technology in Britain, and a Misleading Wsj Article About Texas

Water Pricing: Just Say Yes!

More on Energy Resilience

"Elder Statesmen" Weigh in on Energy

Wsj: Gerald O'driscoll on Fannie and Freddie

"What Do You Do, Sir?"

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

Prius Will Have Solar Power

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

Pigou and the "Bad Things"

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

Cheaper Solar Power?

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

How to Automate Your Home

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

Are Oil Prices Going Higher?

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.

Go Penguins!

Triathlon Training Update at the Beginning of the Season

FERC Proceedings Continue for Alleged Gas Market Manipulator

Are Oil Prices Too High?

Why Are Food Prices So High?

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

Meat(t1) = (grain(t0))^3

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

Paying Higher Electric Bills Under "Deregulation" for Past Choices by Regulators and Regulated Utilities

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

The Price of Rice in Vietnam

Latest Farmer Vs. Rancher Epic from Texas Centers on Ethanol

Speaking of Jobs...

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

A Day in Savannah

Energy Efficient Homes Appealing to Buyers in Texas

"Why Are Gasoline Prices So High?"

FCC Spectrum Auction Ends

Sad Socket: Galvin Electricity Initiative's New Ad

Energy from Animal Waste

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

Kema's Retail Forum

Analysis out of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center

A Couple of Interesting Climate Change Articles

Smart Grid Podcast

Update on Nin Album Release

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?

Nin for Free, $5, $10, $75, or $300: That's Price Discrimination! Or Bundling. Whatever; It's Value-creating!

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

Career Advice from Hal Varian

Texas Does Carbon Big, and That's Not All...

Power Outage in Florida

"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

Three Cheers for Gridlock

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.

Deregulation, Innovation, and Market Liberalization: Electricity Regulation in a Continually Evolving Environment

Lysander Spooner Bicentennial

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*

Making Cooler Computer Chips

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

Gridwise Olympic Peninsula Project Final Report: Prices to People and Their Devices Lead to Savings and Reliability

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

Disk Failure, Lost Comments

More From the Ces

Consumer Electronics Go Green

Prediction Markets at Google

Project Kill Day

Jerry Taylor on $100 Oil

What Will Futurists Do in the Future?

Music Favorites From 2007

Nhl Winter Classic

Happy New Year!