[{"id":21,"title":"Great stock or climate change indicator?","sha":"a05954037a4797343c7e8e6f16bcb193","user_id":28,"state":"published","body":"I propose to gather a collection of sock price histories and various indicators of climate change (temperatures, CO2 levels, etc.) and anonymize their labels. These would be used to create a game or prediction market so that the players would be incentivized to choose which of these time series they think show a positive trend. This blind labeling of climate change time series would be useful for providing input into the debates around particular time series that are heavily biased by the politics surrounding the issue.","created_at":"2015-02-09T06:05:27.725Z","updated_at":"2015-03-03T20:44:18.611Z","zenodo_id":21723,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14937","subject":null,"tags":["climate","change","stock","market"],"vote_count":3,"view_count":1,"score":3.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":69,"title":"Reducing the peer review burden and raising grant success rates by passing a simple law","sha":"0b34a8a607005992056b4f4eb8fed76c","user_id":267,"state":"published","body":"Pass a law that limits the total dollars that a research organization can request from the federal government to three times the average dollars they received in previous years. This would immediately change the average success rate of grants to one in three; a major improvement from current rates. Scientists would be free to spend more time in the lab and less time writing and reviewing grants.\r\n\r\nHow would this work? If an institution did not generate an internal screen for limiting applications, their grants would be assigned a random number and only the appropriate fraction would be sent on to the respective funding agency. Smart institutions would establish priorities that matched to their values (e.g. supporting young scientists or multidisciplinary science). \r\n\r\nAsking institutions to screen grant applications based on their values would be a big change. But it is reasonable to ask institutions to share the burden of peer review and to play a roll in the process of selecting the best ideas. Regardless of how institutions responded, the burden of peer review would drop. Scientists would spend less time in DC, less time at the computer, and more time in the lab. ","created_at":"2015-02-19T19:05:06.450Z","updated_at":"2023-12-12T21:01:35.952Z","zenodo_id":23159,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15533","subject":null,"tags":["research","researchers","academia","publishing","economy","science","society","occupation","science_policy","workforce","government","logistics","market","universities","creativity"],"vote_count":10,"view_count":1,"score":10.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":76,"title":"Time dependent and location dependent electric pricing using smart meters","sha":"e7c25fbcb21631386537103971afe74e","user_id":301,"state":"published","body":"Smart meters are increasingly deployed to electric endusers, with the prime goal of decreasing metering costs for the power companies.They can be set in a way that the momentary power usage is transmitted close to realtime.\r\nThe trading price of electric energy fluctuates with time, e.g. due to the volatile production of renewables, and demand curves of the net. For sunny and windy days, the price can even become negative http://www.epexspot.com/en/company-info/basics_of_the_power_market/negative_prices . From a holistic economic point of view, it makes sense for customers to adopt their energy usage to the current price on the market. However, this is hindered as endusers pay proportionally to their total consumption.\r\nUsing smartmeters, the volatile energy prices could be transparently used to bill the customers. They then can have web-enabled devices that based on the current electric price e.g. charge the electric vehicle or cool the fridge further than usually. Thereby, the electric price is stabilized, as demand is coupled to price.\r\nAdditionally, the price can depend on if power needs to be transmitted through the grid. \r\nUsing this measures, the usage of the transmission grid is minimized, and local production/consumption maximized, leading to cheaper and stable power and higher share of renewables.","created_at":"2015-02-20T10:17:37.586Z","updated_at":"2015-03-02T20:23:21.283Z","zenodo_id":23221,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15559","subject":null,"tags":["smart","grid","electric","market","renewable"],"vote_count":2,"view_count":1,"score":2.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]