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by ghouse 10y ago
They were created to treat a symptom, not address the cause. Now that a viable way to eliminate the cause exists, they advocate the keep the root problem.
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by ghouse 10y ago
But this isn't that. The government already has enough information for the majority of US taxpayers to complete their tax return. W-2 income only? Or other income that's already reported to the government? Government sends you a t
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by ghouse 10y ago
When private companies profit from the state imprisoning its citizens, those companies will lobby (successfully) for more business in the form of mandatory sentencing and other crime fear-mongering. Just like Eisenhower warned us of the mil
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by ghouse 10y ago
Natural gas, hydro, and coal may fall under "net metering system" too. The law plainly says that beginning in 2020, electric utilities in WY may not procure any power from solar and wind (unless they're located behind their c
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by ghouse 10y ago
> Currently it's not a 'free' market. Absolutely agree. A classical "free market" approach would be to internalize the external costs (like pollution) and then let the market figure it out. Instead of the debat
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by ghouse 10y ago
The coal industry is one of, if not the largest industry in Wyoming. As wind and solar become the least-cost source of new generation, the economic viability of coal generation is threatened. Rather than allow the free market to select the
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Again, we just experienced the hottest year on record(cnn.com)
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by ghouse 10y ago
Oil, gas, and coal enjoy their own subsidies. Both direct and indirect. Increasing these subsidies for fossil fuels will slow the transition.
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by ghouse 10y ago
Resource extraction companies (oil, mining, etc..) usually are required to post security for reclamation. However, large companies are permitted to not post cash or bond, but on their word (credit). Which works while commodity prices are
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by ghouse 10y ago
Why not a simple revenue-neutral modest carbon tax? And for countries who do not have a similar paradigm, an import tariff equal to the equivalent embedded CO2. It appears much of the world (other than the US) is now headed in this directi
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by ghouse 10y ago
No, they're not. Read the article. Their research indicates Facebook shows you news, even fabricated news that agrees with whatever you already believe.
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by ghouse 10y ago
An amazing tutorial for using R (against Twitter datasets)
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by ghouse 10y ago
Tipping point for me last week: I now receive more spam phone calls than I do spam email.
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by ghouse 10y ago
And this is why we need SCM-level tracking for our laws.
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by ghouse 10y ago
> So, according to that source, out of state coal consumption can range from 5% to 50%. It doesn't say exactly when the 50% figure was hit, or why. The quote is from the Southern California Public Power Agency (SCPPA). Their members
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US Fed double-auction to reallocate broadcast TV radio spectrum(siepr.stanford.edu)
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by ghouse 11y ago
"The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will cost taxpayers $4 trillion to $6 trillion, taking into account the medical care of wounded veterans and expensive repairs to a force depleted by more than a decade of fighting" - Washing
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by ghouse 11y ago
SFO is an airport. SF is a city.
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by ghouse 11y ago
I worked in energy development in sub-sahara Africa. Attempted several solar projects, all of which would have sold electricity at a price considerably lower than the utility's avoided cost from imported petroleum. We were unsuccessfu
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by ghouse 11y ago
And high cost (relatively speaking to wind in windy areas, sun in sunny areas, and natural gas in North America)
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by ghouse 11y ago
Yet here in the US we continue to think it's good public policy to subsidize the production of sugar and corn syrup.
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by ghouse 11y ago
The US already tested the "trickle down" economic hypothesis.
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by ghouse 11y ago
Can we just institute a revenue-neutral carbon tax ($15-35/ton) and let the market figure out the solutions?
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by ghouse 11y ago
With Trump polling 36% of likely primary voters, has GOP "jumped the shark?"
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by ghouse 11y ago
A phased-in revenue-neutral carbon tax of $30/ton would increase electricity rates in (most of) the US by < 10%. And could lower income taxes (or if not revenue neutral) reduce the debt. What's not to like?
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Ocean temperature increase may stop O2 production by phytoplankton(sciencedaily.com)
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by ghouse 11y ago
How many 9s of reliability do you want to pay for? Speaking only regarding residential energy: In North America, other than Hawaii as of a couple weeks ago, solar generation banks credit for electricity exported to the grid. In effect, a 10
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by ghouse 11y ago
I used it a couple months ago. Performance wasn't bad then.
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by ghouse 11y ago
Compared to the CO2 that has been "permanently" sequestered in the Earth's crust through coal and oil, the trees involved in the fires contain a relatively trivial amount of CO2. In the US, we are succeeding in reducing the r
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by ghouse 11y ago
"Carry Fire Insurance" -- That raises the fundamental economic issue, which surprisingly the Economist was silent; a policy of fire suppression is a subsidy for the people who choose to live int he forest. If there wasn't a

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