The price of 100% wind power in Denmark
24 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand Tags: at nuclear power, Big Wind, Denmark, renewable energy
#ISDS is saving the planet from global warming!
22 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: carbon emissions, Euroland, expressive voting, Germany, global warming, investor state dispute settlement, nuclear energy, tradeoffs
Do environmentalists oppose all energy subsidies?
22 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: antimarket bias, Big Solar, Big Wind, expressive voting, green rent seeking, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, renewable energy, solar power, wind power
There are 620 million people in Africa without electricity
22 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, climate alarmists, energy poverty, extreme poverty, global poverty, global warming
There are 620 million people in Africa without electricity. Here's where they live. vox.com/2014/10/13/697… (via @iea) http://t.co/bhK5CVmtpZ—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) June 09, 2015
Why is Danish electric power more expensive than anywhere else?
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Big Wind, climate alarmists, Denmark, expressive voting, green rent seeking, power prices, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, renewable energy, The pretence to knowledge, wind power
@greenpeacenz The inconvenient truth about wind power
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Big Wind, climate alarmists, expressive voting, global warming, rational irrationality, renewable energy, wind power
Are solar panels sustainable in snow prone regions?
16 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: renewable energy, solar energy, solar power
And the rich got richer, who cares
16 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, economics of religion, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, entrepreneurial alertness, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, top 1%
"The rich got richer, true. But…" —@DeirdreMcClosk buff.ly/1Imdv4o http://t.co/M3ERx3JTIn—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 28, 2015
Why developing countries aren’t interested in global climate treaties
15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: climate alarmists, free-riders, game theory, global climate treaties, Green alarmists, healthier is wealthier, international treaties, richer is safer
Do Residential Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver?
15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmists, energy conservation, expressive voting, nanny state, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, tokenism
The researchers found that the upfront cost of efficiency upgrades of a large randomized controlled trial of 30,000 homes in Michigan came to about $5,000 per house, on average. But their central estimate of the energy savings only amounted to about $2,400 per household, on average, over the lifetime of the upgrades.
After the upgrades, homes used 10 to 20 percent less energy for electricity and heating. But, that was only about 39 percent of the savings that engineering modelers had predicted ahead of time. The program simply wasn’t as effective at saving energy as everyone thought.
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Europe at night
14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics Tags: Europe, The Great Fact
Europe at Night http://t.co/kfcGA5qE8y—
Earth Pictures™ (@EarthBeauties) July 06, 2015
Beijing by night
14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Beijing, China
MT @MaxCRoser: #Beijing lights at night. Left: 1992, right: 2009 #China #cities #development #geographyteacher http://t.co/gPbaePQv9b—
Stephen Matthews (@srmdrummer) February 16, 2015
I thought solar energy supplied more energy than this
14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: Big Solar, climate alarmism, global warming, renewable energy, solar energy
These solar power plants provided around 0.11% of US electricity in 2012. vox.com/2014/6/12/5803… http://t.co/z7gUh0ofdD—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) April 09, 2015
@oxfamnz @GreenpeaceNZ Further evidence of mass kidnappings of principled environmentalists – indoor pollution version
14 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: air pollution, climate alarmists, expressive voting, global warming, green hypocrisy, indoor pollution, Kuznets curve, rational irrationality, The Great Escape
The deadliest environmental problem today is indoor air pollution — killing 4 million a year. vox.com/2014/9/15/6150… http://t.co/xtwLRfkVF2—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) June 11, 2015
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