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Converting Coal Plants to Natural Gas
For the better part of the last several hundred years, coal was the fuel of choice for generating power. Burning coal powered Thomas Newcomen’s steam engine, invented in Britain in the early 18th century, and the first of a line of increasi...
Reading List 06/13/2026
Homes being built on top of libraries, Patriot missile manufacturing, an effort to construct new US coal plants, a tunnel between the US and Russia, and more.
Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to build...
Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition
A few weeks ago we looked at a simulation of technological evolution by economist Brian Arthur, in which he was able to start with simple building blocks (such as a NAND gate) and evolve surprisingly complex circuits (such as a 12-way AND g...
Reading List 06/06/26
Chatbots replacing realtors, Chinese synthetic diamonds, Australian batteries, Meta’s data center tents, and more
Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure and industrial technolog...
How Long Does It Take to Plan a Bridge?
Bear Mountain Bridge in New York, via Wikipedia.
Many folks, including me, have observed that it seems to take much longer to build infrastructure in the US than it used to. People point to things like the rapid construction of the Empire...
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