Brian Potter
Senior Fellow at IFP
Writer at construction-physics.com
Writes Construction Physics. Senior infrastructure fellow at @IFP
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5 days ago |
construction-physics.com | Brian Potter
Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology. This week we look at Amazon’s Vulcan robot, magnetohydrodynamic ship propulsion, Waymo’s manufacturing scale up, Boom Supersonic’s new super alloy, and more. Roughly 2/3rds of the reading list is paywalled, so for full access become a paid subscriber.
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1 week ago |
construction-physics.com | Brian Potter
Among the most impressive manufacturing achievements of the US during WWII was the number of ships it produced. Prior to the war, the American shipbuilding industry had been moribund. Shipyards had been busy during and immediately following WWI, but the huge flood of wartime ships greatly reduced demand for new ones, and American shipyards didn’t produce a single oceangoing hull between 1922 and 1928.
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1 week ago |
construction-physics.com | Brian Potter
Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure and industrial technology. This week we look at the blackout in Spain and Portugal, Chinese robot adoption, energy maneuverability theory, the Florida real estate market, battery manufacturing cancellations, and more. Roughly 2/3rds of the reading list is paywalled, so for full access become a paid subscriber.
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2 weeks ago |
construction-physics.com | Brian Potter
Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure and industrial technology. This week we look at enhanced rock weathering, driverless trucks, Home Depot’s garden experiments, hydrogen airplanes, and more. Roughly 2/3rds of the reading list is paywalled, so for full access become a paid subscriber.
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3 weeks ago |
construction-physics.com | Brian Potter
You can’t throw a rock these days without hitting someone trying to build humanoid robots. The Humanoid Robot Guide lists 47 different humanoids made by 38 different manufacturers, and this Technology Review article claims 160 companies worldwide are building humanoids. Many of these manufacturers are startups that have raised (or are raising) hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital.
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For a long time I would write by imagining a specific person standing next to me and thinking of what I would say to them.
Unreasonably effective writing advice: "What are you trying to say here? Okay, just write that."
https://t.co/tPbBNMeYyl
My favorite example of this is that an F-35 is effectively useless without basically the entire American economy behind it to provide fuel, spare parts, support crews etc. F-35 not as weapon, but tip of infrastructural spear.
This is an interesting post because I very often see posts of the flavor "I put these parts out for bid and the Chinese shops were cheap, shipped quickly and had great customer service, and the American shops were expensive and didn't seem like they cared if they got the order."
I always answer the phone on the weekends, because you just don't know who might call. A power plant 2 hours from me called with an emergency, I'm the only one who answered the phone on Easter weekend. They're going to get their part today. Do you think China can/will do that? https://t.co/f87P6jGY97
