Thursday, October 3, 2024
EnergyTechUtilities

Nuclear Power Is Actually Not Bad. Microsoft is Bad.

Constellation just announced a deal that the generation utility will restart the surviving Three Mile Island reactor, which was shut down in 2019. That’s good news. The more complicated news is that Microsoft is buying all of that power for its data centers and artificial intelligence, both of which continue to consume staggering amounts of electricity– which they buy for far cheaper than what we peasants must pay.

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Construction

YIMBY 101: Elevators, Point Access Blocks, And More

Whether we’re thinking about costs or spatial geometry, elevators (and the regulation thereof) are an important concept behind the question of how to facilitate development of more multifamily and missing middle construction in the United States. A new report from the Center for Building in North America considers the role of the elevator in construction, looking at both the historical evolution of the technology, the safety of operations and installation, and the spatial efficiencies of European vs. American configurations.

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