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2 days ago |
construction-physics.com | Brian Potter
Earlier this month I came across the following graphic, originally posted on Reddit in 2022, showing the state of housing affordability in the US. The graphic color-codes counties based on the ratio of median home value to median household income:Green counties have median home value less than 4 times median household income. Yellow counties have a median home value between 4 and 6 times median household income.
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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 some Construction Physics email stats, why appliances break so often, a special economic zone for Silicon valley, a river filtering pool, and more. Roughly 2/3rds of the newsletter is paywalled, so for full access become a paid subscriber.
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1 week ago |
construction-physics.com | Brian Potter
To operate reliably, the US electrical grid needs to balance supply and demand: to make sure, at any given moment, that the amount of electricity demanded by homes, businesses, and factories is equal to the amount being supplied by nuclear reactors, gas turbines, and other types of power plants. Historically, this was done by connecting and disconnecting power plants, or ramping their output up and down as demand rises and falls.
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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 Figure’s new humanoid robot demo, what it would take to create the data for a robot foundation model, “right to repair” on naval vessels, electricity costs and power laws, 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
Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology. This week we look at risks to US battery storage, un-affordable affordable housing, a major Supreme Court NEPA ruling, making chip materials in space, and more. Roughly 2/3rds of the reading list is paywalled, so for full access become a paid subscriber.
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