First TMI, Now Palisades. Is Uranium Back?
Nuclear power advocates have regained a healthy glow, though the environmental movement continues to split more hairs than atoms over the role of the carbon-free energy source.
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Author: Nat M. Zorach
Solidarity Is Unconditional, Even When The Context Is Iffy.
Harold Daggett, the multi-millionaire president of the International Longshoreman’s Association, drives a Bentley. He’s also buddies with Donald Trump. Does that mean we shouldn’t support striking workers?
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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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There’s Always A Dril Tweet: Windsor’s Budget Woes
If you know me, you know that I am an unapologetic booster for Windsor, Ontario, also known as South Detroit,
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Book Review: Scaling People, by Claire Hughes Johnson
A good manager needs to be able to hire, lead, inspire, and deliver. It’s a tricky balance of often disparate skills and deliverables, but this book sheds a lot of light on how to do it.
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Streamlining City Approvals Will Speed Up Housing, Says New Paper
Researchers from the University of California Los Angeles and California State Northridge used a set of mathematical and statistical models to explain how improving bureaucratic processes in building departments could have outsized effects on increasing the rate of housing development.
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Line Go Up: Book Review of “The Cold Start Problem,” by Andrew Chen
I was recently hanging out with a buddy who, responding to my standby joke about how we must all be
Read MoreJasper Wildfire: Can We Fireproof Cities?
TLDR: Probably not. But I’m bringing up the question in the aftermath of a wildfire that destroyed about a third
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Trump & Netanyahu: A Criminal Bromance for the Ages
Yesterday, a war criminal addressed the United States Congress, receiving repeated rounds of applause and a standing ovation from a
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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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