permitting
Can a rich country still build things?
The review a project must pass before it can be built, and the argument that it now blocks more than it protects.
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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American…
Their wordsIt’s a bet that the battery optimists are correct that storage technology will keep getting better and cheaper so that this line will keep going up rather than hit a wall when the summer market gets saturated.
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Creator of Flask and Jinja
Their wordsI think a healthy attitude in life is to look at a rule, assume it was made for a reason, but to always default to getting rid of it (situation might have changed).
- 4 weeks earlier
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Jennifer Pahlka quoted
Author of Recoding America
Their wordsThe difference is mostly the delay, which stems not necessarily from the regulation itself, but from the incentives in the machinery that administers it.
↗Weekend short read: Fire is a metaphor, until its noteatingpolicy.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Dylan Patel quoted
Founder and chief executive of SemiAnalysis
Their wordsAnd so I think people are figuring out how to build these things and permitting like I I just like ultimately like permitting and red tape in middle of nowhere Texas or middle of nowhere Wyoming or middle of nowhere like New Mexico is probably a hell of a lot easier than sending stuff into space
↗Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI computeyoutube.com 23rd of 28 in this recording
- 4 weeks earlier
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Austin Vernon quoted
Engineer and investor who writes quantitative posts…
Our readingMost regulatory delay is dead calendar time that could be cut without changing a single safety test.
Their wordsThere is a massive scope to reduce calendar time without even altering testing protocols.
↗Speed Can Reindustrialize Americaaustinvernon.site 13th of 15 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
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Brian Potter quoted
Structural engineer and writer
Our readingThe binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.
Their wordsPolitical costs and civic opposition will often make a technology unviable regardless of how the dollars and cents add up.
↗Why we stopped building subways cheaplyworksinprogress.news 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Michael Liebreich quoted
Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Their wordsThe inconvenient facts are that SMRs has so far disappointed, and look like being as slow to get through the permitting process as GW-scale reactors, and even more expensive.
↗Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate resetliebreich.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
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John H. Cochrane quoted
Economist at the Hoover Institution
Our readingThe binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.
Their wordsEndless lawsuits, cost-exploding contracting requirements, decades to get permits, and more bedevil any attempt to invest here.
↗Tariffs, saving, and investmentgrumpy-economist.com 4th of 6 in this piece
- 11 months earlier
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Brian Potter quoted
Their wordsFab construction time in the US has increased from just over 650 days on average in the 1990s to over 900 days on average in the 2010s, compared to around 600-700 days in Asian countries, in part because of increasingly stringent environmental review processes.
↗How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fabconstruction-physics.com 2nd of 7 in this piece
- 6 months earlier
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Casey Handmer quoted
Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Our readingThe binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.
Their wordsYet solar development is hopelessly snarled by dozens of different development regulations which begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive length.
↗Permitting Reform Or Deathcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Casey Handmer quoted
Their wordsThe primary driver of increased impact, longer time scales before displacement, and catastrophically high levels of avoidable pollution is environmental protection regulations.
↗Permitting Reform Or Deathcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Casey Handmer quoted
Our readingDelay in permitting clean energy kills more Americans every year than the September 11 attacks did.
Their wordsThe terrorist attacks on 9/11 killed 2996 people in a day of singular horror. Our ongoing indifference to regulatory inefficiency, considering only the area of green energy development, kills more people every year – more than 10 people per day, and that’s only within the US.
↗Permitting Reform Or Deathcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
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Eli Dourado quoted
Economist writing about why physical technologies
Their wordsFAA certification is required before you transport anything for money.
↗Cargo airships could be bigelidourado.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Eli Dourado quoted
Their wordsDesigning your aircraft for the beachhead market is a huge distraction, particularly when there are certification costs that have to be paid for each new model.
↗Cargo airships could be bigelidourado.com 4th of 4 in this piece
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsAccept that the price we pay for an open, free internet is one which permits the darker sides of humanity
↗Here's how to fix Twitterworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 years earlier
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Charles Marohn quoted
Civil engineer and land use planner
Their wordsIt is incrementally rising land values, combined with the ability to redevelop to something more intense, that naturally prompts the redevelopment of property in decline.
↗The Power of Growing Incrementallystrongtowns.org 4th of 4 in this piece