Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Desal and NM Population
Fishin’ for help in thinking about NM’s water-population future.
Archive of posts filed under the New Mexico category.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Armageddon Edition
On the horrifying simplicity of the H-bomb, and the possible unmasking of “Perseus”: Reed and Stillman suggest that the Soviets, desperate to solve the riddle of the H-bomb, returned to Perseus for one last favor in 1954. However they got the idea, by late 1955 the Soviets had built and tested their own H-bomb. h/t …
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The Energy Costs of Desalination
From my colleague Sean Olson, in today’s Albuquerque Journal (ad gated): While desalinating water could become a valuable tool to support a growing New Mexico, residents will have to be ready to bite the bullet when it comes to the huge energy cost associated with the technique. Experts say that cost comes in two forms: …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Water in the Desert Edition
On the lessons from Chaco (ad gated): New Mexico has always been a dry place, at least on the time scales that matter for the ancient civilizations Henderson and Robbins were trying to understand. Our history could be written as a story of people forever searching for a stable water supply to support the cities …
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Stuff Journalists Do On a Friday When No One’s Around to Answer Our Questions
We look up data and muse:
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Solar Power Edition
New Mexico State regulators approve expansion of rooftop solar incentives: New Mexico regulators Tuesday approved a major expansion of the state’s solar energy program, including provisions for solar installations on Albuquerque businesses. “We’re going to see a flowering of solar in this state,” said Jason Marks, a member of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. …
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Infrastructure Speed Bumps
Dan McKay has an excellent story in this morning’s ABQJournal on some of the practical aspects of trying to spend all that federal cash in a hurry (ad gated): [C]ritics are starting to wonder whether the massive projects are remotely realistic — even if Congress doles out the money. For one thing, under federal law, …
Trading One Crane for Another
Coco notes Sandhill cranes in a field destined to become a subdivision, and fights back bile: Sandhill cranes on a field that will soon be chopped up for sale because: you can’t do agriculture on land worth that much. I note the economic disincentives standing in the cranes’ way (the externality of a public good …
Macroeconomic Indicators: NM Copper
Commodities like copper are one of the best global macroeconomic indicators, and we’ve got copper in New Mexico. My colleague Rene Romo has a nice story in this morning’s paper (watch an ad to read it) translating the general into the specific: “In past times, if you’d get laid off, you’d go somewhere else and …
New Mexico’s Unemployment Rate
Hoping Malcolm will like this one better. It’s New Mexico’s unemployment rate over the last 10 years, as compared to the national rate. (Red line NM, blue line national. Data courtesy of St. Louis Fed.) The data speak for themselves (the data speaks for itself?), but since this is a blog, I have to say …