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Daily Archive for August 30th, 2009

But It’s NOT About Lighting Silly

Howard Brandston tells the emperor he has no clothes on: “If energy conservation were to be the sole goal of energy policy, and efficacy were to be the sole technical consideration, then why CFLs? If we really want to save energy, we would advocate high-pressure sodium lamps—those large bulbs that produce bright orangish light in […]

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Pardon the Dust

Folks, please pardon the changes in the site for now. I am working to get a new content management system installed to better integrate the blog with other media and economics learning materials to make the site more useful as a general economics learning tool. In the meantime, I seem to have “misplaced” lots of […]

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Rolling Dice

You have a choice to play one of three games for money: Choice A: there are 6 dice in a box with which you are to roll a six Choice B: there are 12 dice in a box with whch you are to roll two sixes Choice C: there are 18 dice in a box […]

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Quotes I Enjoyed Today

Building high-speed rail will be like standing in the chilly vestibule of a mid-winter Amtrak train in Chicago and burning million-dollar bills to keep warm. But that’s what happens when you base your transportation policies on the slogan from a Kevin Costner movie rather than on real data. That from the ever-worth reading Antiplanner.  How […]

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