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Laying the Foundations
A case for productive Fat Cats?
Oct 7
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Rian Chad Whitton
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Laying the Foundations
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July 2024
British Industry's Darwinian Fast
The industrial base has, since 2007, offset poor fundementals with higher productivity to produce about the same amount of value. We may well have run…
Jul 31
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Rian Chad Whitton
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British Industry's Darwinian Fast
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Ineos: The petrochemical empire of Britain’s last industrialist
Jim Ratcliffe is Britain’s most prominent industrial magnate and the largest shareholder in a sprawling chemical enterprise. Exasperated by Britain's…
Jul 9
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Rian Chad Whitton
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Ineos: The petrochemical empire of Britain’s last industrialist
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January 2024
Firm Power can reduce Britain’s electricity prices
Geothermal and fission-based electricity are the foundation for a British industrial renaissance.
Jan 7
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Rian Chad Whitton
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Firm Power can reduce Britain’s electricity prices
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November 2023
Direct Reduction Iron - the other way of making steel
Direct reduction iron represents an alternative to blast furnaces in making high quality steel, but is a marginal technology. It is being proposed as a…
Nov 7, 2023
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Rian Chad Whitton
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October 2023
An Appraisal of Rob Rory
A deep dive into Rory's Stewart's memoir. His critiques of politics and government are convincing, but his remedies are found wanting.
Oct 13, 2023
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Rian Chad Whitton
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An Appraisal of Rob Rory
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September 2023
Critiquing Net Zero requires competence and peer review
A conservative report makes a howler and provides an open goal to Net Zero advocates
Sep 28, 2023
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Rian Chad Whitton
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Critiquing Net Zero requires competence and peer review
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Automation will be harder than the energy transition
Everywhere, countries are automating in a desperate attempt to increase productivity. Britain is barely in the game.
Sep 15, 2023
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Rian Chad Whitton
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Automation will be harder than the energy transition
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Europe, not China, could become a casualty of U.S. industrial policy
America's reshoring initiative will likely not hurt China, but could lead to a sustained backlash in Europe.
Sep 1, 2023
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Rian Chad Whitton
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Europe, not China, could become a casualty of U.S. industrial policy
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August 2023
Britain needs to drastically accelerate its nuclear plans
24 GW by 2050, with only 3 GW under construction and 6 GW coming offline by 2035. The government needs to execute a nuclear buildout in the next year.
Aug 24, 2023
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Rian Chad Whitton
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Britain needs to drastically accelerate its nuclear plans
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Start the Presses
Heavy forge presses seperate real industrial powers from pretenders. They are also critical to the nuclear industry. After years of limited investment…
Aug 14, 2023
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Rian Chad Whitton
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A Primer on Britain’s Nuclear Industry
Britain's convoluted relationship with fission has has made expansion difficult. With nuclear power now favoured by elites, what is missing is a real…
Aug 10, 2023
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Rian Chad Whitton
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A Primer on Britain’s Nuclear Industry
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