Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Tuesday Links

  • Above is the latest data on gasoline availability in the NYC metro area.
  • Merkel says Eurozone crisis will last at least another five years.  Incroyable.
  • Every time there's a massive disaster it always seems to be that there was a group of scientists and engineers who for years had been trying to get people to pay attention to the probability of that very thing.  But people only actually pay attention to them after the disaster has finally occurred.
  • EIA data on total US grid-connected solar.  Currently they estimate 3.5 GW of capacity.  This is split roughly three ways between utility, commercially sited (on office buildings etc), and residential.  Commercial is a little ahead of the other categories.
  • Krugman on FEMA under Democratic vs Republican administrations.  I do agree that there's an empirical regularity here, and it's plausible that it might be explained by Republicans not being motivated to make the federal government appear competent.
  • Mostly, though, I'm with Tom Friedman.
  • Good post on effects of biofuels on food prices.

1 comment:

Michael R said...

"Every time there's a massive disaster it always seems to be that there was a group of scientists and engineers who for years had been trying to get people to pay attention to the probability of that very thing. But people only actually pay attention to them after the disaster has finally occurred."


Yup.

Greenhouse gas emissions, for example.