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In her book on the history of the laser, historian Joan Bromberg notes that the technological and scientific predecessors of the maser (which itself preceded the laser - two critical technologies whose developmental histories I sketched in...

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Reading List 05/02/2026

Chilling effects in the build-to-rent sector, how fast could robot manufacturing scale up, PJM’s new interconnection queue, the backlash against battery storage, and more.

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How an Oil Refinery Works

India’s Jamnagar refinery, via Wikipedia.

Though wind and solar continue to carve out larger and larger shares of world energy supply, the modern world still runs on petroleum, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The wor...

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Reading List 04/25/26

Transformer steel manufacturing, textile engineering, bringing power plants online quickly, infrasound, and more.

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Construction Costs Rarely Fall

Not long ago we looked at construction productivity trends for the US and for countries around the world. We found that in the US, and in most other large, wealthy countries, construction productivity is stagnant or declining. Unlike manufa...

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