It’s worth noting the death (in a number of countries) of the traditional political cycle. That is, do unpopular stuff at the start of your term to build a social and economic boom for the next elect… (View Post)

It’s about building stuff as an incremental process…. 1) build a foreign owned factory 2) build the infrastructure to support it 3) gradually build the supply chain to 1) 4) build your own factories … (View Post)

The experiment failed 1) seawater ruins everything. 2) seawater vapour really ruins everything 3) maratime operations are expensive 4) sticking something in a can and putting it in the water isn’t ef… (View Post)

A billion a year is a rounding error in our economy. For that investment we could have had a U.K. LEO data constellation, *making a profit* Taiwan is hardly the largest economy on the planet - yet ch… (View Post)

Or we could do what the Chinese *do* Take the investment. Build the infrastructure with joy. Take on the supply & technology chain, piece by piece. End up with parallel data centres, running U.K.… (View Post)