“It’s Time to Rebuild Domestic Drug Production in the US” from Industry Week offers compelling arguments for reshoring pharmaceutical manufacturing to (1) develop high wage jobs, the median (50th percentile) being close to $75K, and (2) reduce dependency on unreliable…
“Companies, investors will want animal-free protein” describes how companies are developing not only plant-based meat alternatives but actual meat cells grown in bioreactors instead of animals. The latter (1) reduces waste enormously because little if any of the nutrients are…
Could Cell-Based Meat Replace Factory Farming? There are a lot of foreseeable advantages. (1) No wasted resources (food) due to animal metabolism. (2) No animal cruelty issues, meat grown in bioreactors can’t feel pain or distress. (3) Fewer greenhouse gas…
This is what happens when ideology meets up with engineering and physical realities. Rudyard Kipling’s “Gods of the Copybook Headings” is highly instructive. When the power goes off, California does not have a green economy; it does not have any…
Henry Ford told us almost 100 years ago that cities are muda (waste) that add costs but no value. When Henry Ford talks, people should listen. “NYC is Dead Forever,” by James Altucher, says, “Midtown Manhattan, the center of…
Henry Ford told us in 1922 that cities were becoming obsolete due to the high costs of living and doing business. I would add that cities are worse than useless for their traditional purpose of military defense, and are no…