May 21st, 2009 at 2:27 pm
What is a Renewable Electricity Standard?
Early this morning I was in a meeting in which I incidentally mentioned an article about the move to adopt a federal renewable electricity standard, before conceding that nobody really cares about renewable electricity standards. Well, now! I got an earful about how renewable electricity standards are really important. And they are! So for my sins, here’s CAP’s Dan Weiss explaining what a renewable electricity standard is:
At any rate, an Energy & Environment Daily item that you need a password to read reports that with Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) on board, Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) now has the votes needed to move a renewable electricity standard bill out of committee. That’s good.
29 Responses to “What is a Renewable Electricity Standard?”
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May 21st, 2009 at 3:05 pm
why does Dan the dude get to ’splain under the “Ask an Expert” banner, while Dana and the other young lady (I”m old enough to say “young lady” without it being too absurd) ’splain under the “Ask a Feminist” banner?
May 21st, 2009 at 3:11 pm
um…bandwidth problem?
May 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Goddamnit, Yglesias—They’re referred to as ‘Renewable Portfolio Standards’, and they are indeed very important to those taking a procedural/legislative approach to effecting real change in the Energy Policy Thunderdome.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:34 pm
There is no monopoly restricting the deployment of more efficient stationary energy generation, just solvable technology issue. Hence, the futures market easily factors in future gains in technology and the issue is not a real issue. Peak oil solves that one.
The real battle is in transportation because our road networks have a conflict between government restrictions and deployment of innovative transportation technologies. We currently have multiple government structures constantly trying to add restrictions on road innovation, from bullet trains to cafe standards to light rail right of ways.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:50 pm
That auto-start feature would get Matt banned on Daily Kos, I’ll tell you that much.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:00 pm
The autostart of the video is very irritating (though since I’ve got functionally unlimited bandwidth here, my audio is off, and the video is nonetheless playing jerkily, the effect is actually rather amusing in my case).
May 21st, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Let me just add one more marble to the “autostart is annoying” pile.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Seriously, the autostart is NOT okay. I find myself much less inclined to listen to anything he has to say at this point, and in fact, my primary interest is in making him shut up. When that’s your audience’s concern, you’ve got a serious best practices problem.
Next time you embed a video like this, change one tiny little thing:
In the embed code, where it says
“autoPlay”:true,
change “true” to “false” please.
It’s very easy. kthxbai.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:48 pm
No autostart! It’s bad form, dude.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:59 pm
I imagine the auto-start video will drop off the page by tomorrow morning.
See you then.
May 21st, 2009 at 5:01 pm
The reason that auto-start is bad, Matt, is that many of us (you too?) use a tabbed browser and we open several pages in “background” tabs. Then we hear crazy noises coming from the browser and have to chase down the offending tab.
There are plans at Adobe to implement an API in Flash that will give notice to the containing application when a video is playing and then the browser vendors will be able to propagate that notice to the user via some kind of indication on the tab.
Until we have that, please don’t auto-start/play videos. Thanks.
May 21st, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Actually one of the absolute strongest messages in support of the energy legislation on the Hill appeals to shifting to alternative energy sources as one of the most important elements of the plan.
Sure nobody knows what a renewable portfolio standard is, but that is immaterial. People strongly support the end for which a renewable portfolio standard is a means.
May 21st, 2009 at 5:51 pm
hoW CAN i TURN THIS OFF????
May 21st, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Could he please explain the cost benefit of a Renewable Electricity Standard?
May 21st, 2009 at 6:37 pm
“That’s good.”
The auto-start vid? Not so good…
May 21st, 2009 at 7:34 pm
This is completely ridiculous. It’s been five hours, and the autostarting video is still there – and it’s now so far down the page most of us probably have no idea what’s going on. Make it stop! Seriously.
May 21st, 2009 at 8:06 pm
FlashBlock w/ Firefox helps, but the autostart is fucking lame.
May 21st, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Please, please make this autostart crap STOP………
May 21st, 2009 at 10:43 pm
no more auto play…
May 21st, 2009 at 11:58 pm
shut this thing off already!
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:13 am
Seriously? Seriously?? Seriously???
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:17 am
The real victim of this, by the way, is obviously CAP’s Dan Weiss, who is now hated by hundreds to thousands of people through no fault of his own.
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:34 am
Please never do this again.
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:20 am
you fuck off with the autoplay baby
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:24 am
I imagine the auto-start video will drop off the page by tomorrow morning.
Sadly, No!
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:36 am
Autostart is kinda like having a wind farm or solar array in your vicinity, constantly changing the microenvironment and micro climate, but unable to be suppressed.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 9:51 am
Is there a reason it doesn’t autostart for me (and never did)? It can’t be something unique to my browser — it hasn’t autostarted on Chrome, Firefox, and IE, each browser on three different computers.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Thanks for fixing the autostart. Now, since the wingnut trolls don’t seem to have noticed this post, unlike the Krugman/Cap+Trade post, I’ll be speaking for them. According to the Austrian School: bla bla bla. All systems self-correct harmlessly. Bla bla bla. Wind farms might kill birds. Environmentalism is EEEVIIIL! Hoot click click hoot!
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Couldn’t agree more.
That’s really a good move.