Energetics Cliff Notes - Friday Edition

The week that was: (/climategate) and, yes, more oil.

• Dave Roberts was on Rachel Maddow last night talking about the oil spill and the climate/energy bill.
• Prop 23, a.k.a. the Dirty Energy Proposition, isn't doing so hot in the opinion polls.
• As you've no doubt heard if you're reading my blog, the Solar Impulse, a plane powered entirely by retrofitted solar panels, finished its 26-hour flight yesterday...meaning it flew through the night.
• Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic asks: can the US innovate without manufacturing? Quick answer: NO. (Seriously though, read the whole piece.)
• Not that it really matters anymore (except maybe for the researchers themselves), but a British panel has cleared the East Anglia climatologists at the center of "climategate" of any wrongdoing.
• Michael Levi figures that a utility-only cap, while not raising nearly as much revenue as an economy-wide cap, would still reduce the deficit due to a correlatively diminished effect on business.
• Keep an eye on this: the EPA's new "transport rule" may place bureaucratic restrictions on cap-and-trade schemes for more than just CO2.
• Robert Cialdini, psychologist and author of the influential Influence, weighs in on energy conservation.