¿La Europa de dos electrovelocidades?
¿Si tuvieras una empresa que va a electrificar sus procesos industriales, a qué país de irías?
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¿La Europa de dos electrovelocidades?
¿Si tuvieras una empresa que va a electrificar sus procesos industriales, a qué país de irías?
🚨Replication alert🚨
I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER.
I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems.
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Imagine how bad the latest energy crisis would be in the EU if the electricity mix still looked like it did 20 years ago.
Electricity mix fossil share 2005 → 2025
🇩🇰Denmark: 73% → 9%
🇵🇹Portugal: 82% → 19%
🇳🇱Netherlands: 88% → 46%
🇮🇪Ireland: 93% → 52%
🇪🇸Spain: 66% → 25%
🇬🇷Greece: 89% → 50%
Resilience & security.
Affordable energy for all.
www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...
Esto si sucede en otro sitio se le llama corralito.
El relato de los alimentos de proximidad hace mucho tiempo que se ha desmentido. Un plátano puede dar 10 (?) vueltas al mundo antes de empezar a contaminar lo mismo que un filete.
Fui uno de los que empezó a leer el blog como estudiante, aprendiendo muchísimo. Ha sido un orgullo ser luego colaborador habitual durante varios años. Como miembro ahora de la asociación NeG, mantendremos el compromiso de que todo el contenido se mantenga visible en la web.
Es un día triste por el anuncio del cierre del blog @nadaesgratis.bsky.social
Los tiempos cambian y quizá la época de los blogs independientes ya pasó. Ahora es el momento de poner en valor todo lo que docenas de investigadores han aportado al debate económico en estos años.
Hay que dejar que EE. UU. arregle Irán porque ya han arreglado Irak, Siria y Afganistán a un coste prácticamente nulo de sufrimiento humano en esos países.
Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.
Gas prices jumped again this morning and are on track to double - a stark reminder of our exposure to fossil fuel volatility.
The real solution isn’t more drilling, but moving away from combustion: electrify, use renewable power, and boost energy efficiency.
Today's average price in Italy is 125.08 EUR/MWh, in Spain it is 28.43 EUR/MWh (unweighted by load). The expansion of renewable energy capacity in Spain is protecting its electricity market from geopolitical shocks.
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
EV sales jumped +26.2% globally in 2025 to 13,625,897 BEVs. Market share hit ~17% — more than every 6th new car sold is fully electric.
Just 15 years ago we sold 7,200 BEVs in a year. Now we sell that many every ~4.5 hours.
That’s not transition. That’s scale and acceleration. ⚡🔋 #Bettrification
When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
Voters' views on whether solar energy should be used to strengthen the US energy supply: Yes, it should
Utility-scale solar and wind now cheaper than fossil fuels
Solar PV is so much of an economic no-brainer these days, it's transcending even today's politics.
Según cálculos de @mliebreich.bsky.social, la solar y la eólica (por separado) han alcanzado a la producción nuclear este 2025. El año que viene ambas la superarán, con toda seguridad en el caso de la fotovoltaica y con mucha probabilidad en el caso de la eólica.
We tend to think of batteries as the ones in our phones. But the real shift is happening at grid scale.
Utility-scale “mega batteries” now have hundreds of millions of times the capacity of a smartphone battery.
Costs are down ~40% since 2024, and capacity in 2024 was 12x higher than in 2020.
🌊Estamos inmersos en un proceso global de “litoralización”. El mundo es cada vez más urbano y más costero.
El 90% de la población española vive en el 2,6% del territorio, una densidad que no tiene parangón en Europa.
La España apretada - elpais.com/economia/202...
Entiendo que la novedad y cierta velocidad (aunque moderada) en el despliegue renovable puedan resultar sorprendentes y planteen dudas, pero este es el territorio que ocupa la infraestructura fotovoltaica actualmente en comparación con otros usos. Por valorar si está siendo realmente un asalto.
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Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
Half way its natural path.
Ole por ti, Rosa! 👏🏼👏🏼
1/"Todas las fuentes de energía son compatibles" ¿Seguro? Detrás de esta frase genérica se esconde una realidad más compleja. Miremos el día de ayer.
Con muchísima agua y embalses muy llenos, hubo mucha generación hidráulica todo el día. Con tanta agua no se puede especular con ella. Se generó...
We're hiring a research associate and a research intern for a field project on taxation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in gaining hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government.
Also a great preparation for a PhD in economics. Research project joint with Jonathan Weigel, Augustin Bergeron, Marina Mavungu Ngoma, Gabriel Tourek and others. Degree in economics or related field, experience with Stata and fluency in French required.
Application links below:
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today