Jeff Gordon
@jeffgordon12
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Tax, contract law, industrial policy, decarbonization, between state and market in American law. Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt Law School.
Nashville + D.C.
Joined May 2011
Account status: Until a change in ownership, I will only be using this site to argue in the replies. All affirmative posting (including recent announcement of a new tenure-track job) will take place at the other site. Oligarch-run media is bad, actually.
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This is hilarious because some of the most innovative and widely praised government contracts in decades were NASA's OTAs with SpaceX for commercial launch services, which would not count as "competitive" under CICA which is presumably what this dumb chart is referring to
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The challenge in this market, like many, is balancing the policy imperative for resilience with the private incentives for efficiency.
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One thing that’s striking about early Chinese industrialization in the 80s-90s is how much you can transform a bureaucracy by subjecting it to incentives (tax farming). But does this work for measures of bureaucratic success other than generating local revenue?
This tweet alerted me to a great book. I love these detailed studies of institutional creativity in action (see also Heilmann's 'Red Swan' on China). Seeking recs for other studies of a society reinventing itself not via Soviet-style big push but "directed improvisation"
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This tweet alerted me to a great book. I love these detailed studies of institutional creativity in action (see also Heilmann's 'Red Swan' on China). Seeking recs for other studies of a society reinventing itself not via Soviet-style big push but "directed improvisation"
I’m frankly amazed at why have received a Nobel Prize after their argument has been proven to plain wrong in presenting a very rosy view of institutions in the West when actual history shows otherwise. @yuenyuenang ’s “How China Escaped the Poverty Trap” is a great corrective.
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Obviously it will be incredibly hard to do this with philanthropy but there's no one who could approach the task with more humility
🚨 🚨 🚨 We are looking for someone great to lead a new program focused on accelerating economic growth in developing countries.🚨 🚨 🚨 If we find the right person, they'll oversee at least $30M of spending over the next few years. Here's why we think this is a great bet:
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A positive development for the "everybody can get along" camp cc @tylerhnorris
SIERRA CLUB: RENEWABLES NOT ENOUGH FOR AI, WE NEED NUCLEAR Sierra Club last month quietly reversed 50 years of antinuclear advocacy to endorse nuclear energy as a clean source of power. In their new electricity policy report, they call for using nuclear to protect the climate.
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1/ Details sparse, but from what I've been told, this is a much bigger deal than the previous announcements. Why? Amazon is directly financing the construction of these projects. Much more useful for new tech like SMRs than PPAs are. Quick reaction 🧵
Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small module reactors
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This is not to deny the need for energy regulations specific to data centers! In particular many designs are inefficient about cooling and we should regulate higher standards there.
Tracks to Uptime: Survey respondents’ average annual PUE in 2022 was 1.55, which means that, in aggregate, their data centers expend 55% as much energy on cooling, power distribution and ancillary facility functions as on IT. The decrease in data center PUE from 2007 to 2014
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The fundamental problem is supply of clean resources; if we're going to take on politically difficult fights let's choose adversaries who stand in the way of that (e.g. utilities) rather than power users (it's normal for growth industries to use a growing share of power...)
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I lean towards this response to Deese and Hansmann on AI additionality. Additionality is necessary for H2 because we're subsidizing it. But imposing additionality piecemeal on certain sectors just means other sectors will use the dirty + existing resources
csis.org
The United States should seriously consider the energy demands of AI, but national AI additionality regulations are the wrong approach.
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I am nearly 100% sure that Fervo's construction loan from X-Caliber has a USDA loan guarantee through the OneRD REAP program. (Is there anything the government *doesn't* have its hands in?) Green banks could deploy this USDA program to start building geothermal pilots!!
9/This brings us to our next big announcement for the day, a step forward in financing geothermal. Fervo is pleased to announce our first ever construction loan, a $100m deal with X-Caliber Rural Capital.
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Why I still love twitter - all the info I need to pretend to be a quartz supply chain expert
There’s a lot of fear mongering surrounding high purity quartz (“HPQ”) and Spruce Pine, NC following the devastating flooding from Hurricane Helene The area contains the purest form of natural quartz, but the significance of supply disruptions from the mines is exaggerated 1/8
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Here's an entertaining unpublished dissertation on the Synthetic Fuels Corporation and, by extension, the early history of American shale oil production in the 70s and 80s
academia.edu
The ESA contained much more than just the legislation to create the SFC. John Deutch, under secretary of the Department of Energy during the Carter administration, argues that it passed because it...
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At CPE, I've been lowkey looking into how green banks can combine GGRF with existing, super-concessional EPA water financing facilities (WIFIA, CWSRF) to build solar canals! My reading of the term sheets suggests it's possible, and it would be sooooo cool to see
Take the most popular energy technology in the world, generate 1/6th of California’s energy on canals that cross the state, and save enough water evaporation for two million people? ☀️
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Yet more reason to anticipate this spring's YLS Seminar in Private Law where @athenais1674 will be one of our guests !
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Universal injunctions + a handful of courts willing to provide totally perfunctory legal analysis = government cannot function
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I’m writing about this tension. IMO one needs a theory of how one generation’s NVIDIA becomes the next generation’s Intel, and how to get the most out of the former phase without being saddled with the latter
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