Kansas Electric Rates Increase Because of Wind Power Generation

According to Notice of Public Hearings & Comment Period availabe at the Kansas Corporation Commission, the reasons Westar Energy cites as creating the need for a rate increase are repair costs from a recent ice storm, investments in new ...

Lock ‘em if you got em? Interest Rates Look Good Today

Over the last two days, falling crude oil prices, bad economic news and a bond market that has been favoring buyers combined to make today's rate somewhere around 6.125%* I'm no economist, but think it's fair to say that A sagging ...

Real interest rates are negative

Summary: Real negative interest rates rob people. The US has endured five periods of real negative interest rates since 1954 - two of which have occurred since 2002. It was the 2002-2005 period of negative interest rates which saw the ...

Nonequilibrium velocity distributions and recombination rates in ...

The nonequilibrium velocity distributions and recombination rates in electronion and ionion recombinations in a heat bath of neutral molecules are investigated by solving the Boltzmann equation with the Monte Carlo simulation. ...