Day September 29, 2007

Why carbon emission offsets can’t work

From the authors of Breakthrough. There are five reasons why setting a price on carbon dioxide, either through a cap and trade approach or an outright tax, cannot reduce greenhouse gas emissions anywhere close to what is needed. 1. The…

Poetic justice

The town of Riverside NJ passed a nasty, racist ordinance designed to drive undocumented workers out of town. It worked! So many undocumented workers left town that their local economy collapsed. The town has now rescinded the ordinance.

Electrical and computing grids

A conservative estimate is that 9.4% of total US electric consumption is from computers. This includes data servers and PCs, but not printers, scanners, faxes and the endless rechargeable devices that access the Net. Too many devices continue to draw…