Category Archives: Energy

On NRO, I saw the following in relation to the disaster in Japan: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) is calling for a temporary moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants. “The reality is that we’re watching something unfold,” … Continue reading →

Scott Adams has a post up that’s really too dumb to go into. It does, however, raise an interesting question: What would a typical home’s energy usage look like, expressed in terms of pumping water? I think it’s a novel … Continue reading →

Let’s say that you really, really don’t like coal. How much would it cost to install a number of windmills sufficient to produce the energy that the U.S. currently generates from coal?

Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch have been much in the news lately. In light of Lehman’s bankruptcy and Merrill’s sale to Bank of America, I thought it would be interesting to look at their participation in the electricity market. Merrill … Continue reading →

The power law distribution (and the associated long tail) is a much-discussed statistical phenomenon. I’ve been looking at wholesale electricity transactions, and it appears the the wholesale power business is also well described by the Pareto principle.