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Firm Power can reduce Britain’s electricity prices
Geothermal and fission-based electricity are the foundation for a British industrial renaissance.
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Rian Chad Whitton
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November 2023

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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
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Rian Chad Whitton
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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.
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Rian Chad Whitton
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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.
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Rian Chad Whitton
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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.
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Rian Chad Whitton
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…
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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…
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Rian Chad Whitton

May 2023

The government's implicit acceptance of semiconductor irrelevance
If industrial policy is uninspired, it might as well be cheap
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Rian Chad Whitton
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British Mining’s Succession Problem
Britain's depleting reserves of mining engineers highlights problems in wider industry.
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Rian Chad Whitton
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April 2023

Cheap Electricity and Robotics
While robots can in some cases reduce energy intensity, the promise of automation depends on an abundance of electricity.
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Rian Chad Whitton
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