What Brian Potter thinks about permitting
Structural engineer and writer, author of the Construction Physics newsletter, where he takes apart how large physical things — buildings, ships, semiconductor fabs, aeroplanes — actually get made, and why the cost of making them moves the way it does.
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2 dated positions, 2024 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Brian Potter has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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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
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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