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Benjamin Zycher

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
7
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 14, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Benjamin Zycher

    The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Endorses Stagecoaches and Horse-Drawn Wagons (opens the original)

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    At the bottom of the silliness scale, there is the ordinary, mundane, everyday variety barely noticeable in a world replete with silly. Then there is profound silliness, typified by the Donald Trump view that trade deficits are “losses.” The constant drumbeat of general Beltway silliness, always a source of great amusement, is the next floor up on the silliness escalator. But the ultimate and exquisite silliness is that always attached to the decades-long justifications for “energy efficiency” p

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Benjamin Zycher

    The Warmth of Collectivism: Statista Forgets the 1987 Gorbachev Machine Tool Campaign (opens the original)

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    Statista publishes an interesting regular review of various data trends, the most recent of which is a short discussion by Felix Richter reporting that “China Deploys 59 Percent of the World’s Industrial Robots.” In a year that saw a record number of 603,000 industrial robots installed worldwide, China continued to expand its lead in robotics deployment. . . . [China] installed 354,000 units last year, adding to its already industry-leading operational stock of more than two million units. Havin

  3. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · with Benjamin Zycher

    An Imminent Fork in the Road: Vertical Integration or Decentralization of the Electric Power Sector (opens the original)

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    The economic environment shaping the electricity market has changed substantially in recent years. One of the most prominent emerging issues is the future of traditional vertical integration across the electricity industry. With large increases in electricity demand on the horizon, market participants, regulators, and policymakers must choose between that traditional model and a far more decentralized power sector. Please join AEI for an online event featuring a presentation by former Federal En

  4. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · by Benjamin Zycher

    Keep Waiving the Jones Act Until It Is Repealed for Good (opens the original)

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    Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920—the Jones Act—requires that cargo transported between U.S. ports be carried on vessels that are built in the U.S., owned by U.S. firms, flagged as U.S. vessels and crewed primarily by U.S. citizens. The ostensible goal of this law was to support the U.S. shipbuilding industry as a national security imperative. It was intended to preserve long-term investment incentives for domestic shipyards, repair facilities, skilled workers and a ship fleet and ma

  5. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · by Benjamin Zycher

    The National Academy of Sciences Endorses the Impossible (opens the original)

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    In a new report, the National Academy of Sciences endorses “extreme event attribution (EEA), a field of climate science that analyzes whether and to what extent human-caused climate change influenced an individual extreme weather or climate event.” This endorsement is based upon purported “expanded observational datasets, large-ensemble simulations, and methodological advancements over the past decade…” This is balderdash, as the NAS itself concluded (p. 29) in 2016: “Event attribution questions

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