Hold the Script

A series of vignettes: scenes from Mother\u27s Day by Robert Thomas Noll, Upon Entering a Lavatory by Jim Driscoll, and Lovers by Brian Friel, Outta Hand Improv Troupe. Presented in Octover 1993.https://collected.jcu.edu/plays/1021/thumbnail.jp

Comment on the Revised Proposed Final Judgement

In these comments, we argue that the Revised Proposed Final Judgement (RPFJ) is not in the "public interest," as that test is applied under the Tunney Act. Accordingly, the RPFJ should either be rejected outright now, or the court should refrain from ruling on the RPFJ until it has completed its further factual inquiry regarding the remedy proposed by the nine states not party to the RPFJ. If, however, the court accepts the RPFJ in the meantime, we strongly urge it to treat the RPFJ as an interim remedy and expressly leave open the possibility of supplementing the RPFJ with the additional remedies discussed in detail in this comment. We also recommend that in conducting its further factual inquiry in the remedy phase of this litigation that the court actively consider a structural remedy that would create some competition in the PC operating system market that, but for Microsoft's unlawful acts, reasonably could have been expected to have emerged by this time.

Designing a Market for Tradable Emissions Permits

The economics literature shows that tradable emissions permits have important theoretical advantages over source-specific technical standards as a means for controlling pollution. But efficient, competitive markets in emissions may also be difficult to implement: transactions may be few with high negotiation costs; the market may be highly concentrated. Simple workable versions of the market concept may fail to take account of important complexities in the relationship between the pattern of emissions and the geographical distribution of pollution. This paper examines the feasibility of tradable permits, given these potential problems. Although the empirical part of the paper deals with a specific case—particulate sulfates in the Los Angeles airshed—the methods developed for investigating these issues have general applicability. Moreover, the particular market design that is proposed—an auction process that involves no net revenue collection by the state—has attractive features as a general model

Remedies Brief of Amici Curiae

None.

Tradable Air Pollution Permits in the Overall Regulatory System: Problems of Regulatory Interactions

Because many environmental problems are associated with the production and use of energy, it is not surprising that the effects of policies in the two areas are often interdependent. This paper explores the interactions between the feasibility of an efficient market for emissions permits for sulfur oxides and the current state of air pollution, public utility and natural gas regulation. It shows how some of the opposition to tradable emissions permits can be traced to proposals to implement the reforms that redistribute wealth and the burden of regulatory uncertainty in ways that have greater economic impact than the potential efficiency gains of a market approach. It also examines how a tradable permits market and other regulatory reforms can be designed so as to avoid most of these problems

Economic Feasibility of a Methanol to Dimethyl Ether Production Process to Avoid Contract Failure Shortfalls from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Our team entered the 2021 AVEVA Academic Competition, where teams of undergraduate senior chemical engineering students competed across the country. The competition was composed of two parts: the base case design and the optimization of a chemical process. As part of the competition, our team is acting as the Engineering team for a fictional company that has given us this project. Due to COVID-19, our methanol producing company has lost a contract with a customer, leaving 23,000 tonnes/yr of unclaimed methanol. We have two choices with this methanol: either sell the methanol on the market at the spot price for a loss, or turn the methanol into DME and sell this instead. This leads us to the first phase of the competition: the base case design of the proposed methanol to DME process. The base case consists of five heat exchangers, a reactor, and a distillation column. At the conclusion of this design phase, our team concluded that the methanol to DME process was viable and able to deliver DME at the required purity, as well as found the minimum equivalent annual operating cost of the distillation column used for this process. From this, our Engineering team moved on the second phase of the competition: the optimization of the methanol to DME process. In this phase, our team was tasked with finding the best combination of available equipment rentals from a Toller, all of which had fixed dimensions and operational constraints. Our team used Toller’s equipment to make nine different equipment combinations, and determined that Reactor B and Column A were the best combination, giving the lowest annual operating cost of $688,000 (this value includes utilities and equipment rental fees). Using this combination, our team then performed a detailed economic analysis and considered process safety with the future set-up and running of this process. In the end, our Engineering team concluded that our company should indeed move forward with the methanol to DME process, since it can reduce profit loss from selling methanol at the contract price by approximately$4 million, turning a profit of $1 million for the company

Barriers to Implementing Tradable Air Pollution Permits: Problems of Regulatory Interactions

Since 1977, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been developing and implementing an increasingly comprehensive system of controlled trading options for air pollution control. These programs introduce a limited market for the allocation of emissions among sources of air pollution. Starting with existing source-specific standards as a baseline, policies such as bubbles, emissions banks, netting and offsets allow firms to negotiate - within limits - trades of emissions permits in a manner that satisfies air quality standards at lower total costs. These trades, once agreed upon by the parties, in most cases must then be proposed to regulators as amendments to the existing set of source-specific standards

NASP aeroservothermoelasticity studies

Some illustrative results obtained from work accomplished under the aerothermoelasticity work breakdown structure (WBS) element of the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) Technology Maturation Program (TMP) are presented and discussed. The objectives of the aerothermoelasticity element were to develop analytical methods applicable to aerospace plane type configurations, to conduct analytical studies to identify potential problems, to evaluate potential solutions to problems, and to provide an experimental data base to verify codes and analytical trends. Work accomplished in the three areas of experimental data base, unsteady aerodynamics, and integrated analysis methodology are described. Some of the specific topics discussed are: (1) transonic wind tunnel aeroelastic model tests of cantilever delta wing models, of an all-moveable delta-wing model, and of aileron buzz models; (2) unsteady aerodynamic theory correlation with experiment and theory improvements; and (3) integrated analysis methodology results for thermal effects on vibration, for thermal effects on flutter, and for improving aeroelastic performance by using active controls

The Burial and Best Intentions: Marinello One-Acts

Two one-act plays presented at John Carroll University in February of 2000.https://collected.jcu.edu/plays/1121/thumbnail.jp