Construction Physics

The Great Day of His Wrath, by John Martin, via WikiArt.

La Conquete, by Jose Clemente Orozco, via WikiArt.

The enormous advance in AI capabilities over the last several years has in large part been driven by the availability of vast amounts of training data.

The Miraculous Draft of Fishes, by Konrad Witz, via Wikipedia.

PLATO V terminal, via Wikipedia.

Annunciation with Saint Emidius, by Carlo Crivelli, via WikiArt.

It’s been over a year since I last looked at the state of humanoid robots, and enthusiasm for the technology shows no sign of waning.

The Quay, Olaveaga, Bilbao by Luis Paret y Alcazar, via WikiArt.

Soap Bubbles by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, via WikiArt.

Via SpaceX.

The Iron Bridge (View of Frankfurt) by Max Beckmann, via WikiArt.

Construction is famously labor intensive: direct labor makes up close to 50% of the cost of constructing a new single-family home in the US, compared to around 6 to 8% of the cost of manufacturing a car.

Spring Waters by Vilhelms Purvitis, via WikiArt.

Via Wikipedia.

Morning in the Tropics by Frederic Edwin Church, via WikiArt.

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is the largest crude oil storage facility in the world.

View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, by Jacob van Ruisdael, via WikiArt.

Fishing for Souls, by Adriaen van de Venne, via WikiArt.

This is the second installment of my look under the hood of the recently passed 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, looking at what each provision actually does and trying to suss out its actual impact on housing supply.

House over the Bridge by Diego Rivera, via WikiArt.

Home under construction, via Wikipedia.

The Creation of the World, by Ivan Aivazovsky, via WikiArt.

A battery technology that’s getting a lot of attention is solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid material.

Laguna di Venezia by Anton Melbye, via WikiArt.

3D printed structure, via Wikipedia.

Niagara by Frederic Edwin Church, via WikiArt.