Cargo airships are happening

I got something wrong; introducing Airship Industries

Oct 14, 2024 • 

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May 2024

A beginner’s guide to sociopolitical collapse

How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history

May 6, 2024 • 

Eli Dourado

155

October 2023

Personal aviation is about to get interesting

FAA is getting one enormously consequential thing right

Oct 23, 2023 • 

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March 2023

50 years of silence

It's time to end the speed limit in US airspace

Mar 23, 2023 • 

Eli Dourado

48

2

January 2023

Cargo airships could be big

A capital-intensive, high-risk way to revolutionize global commerce

Jan 30, 2023 • 

Eli Dourado

109

Heretical thoughts on AI

Robert Solow quipped, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” What if AI is the same way? What if it changes…

Jan 19, 2023 • 

Eli Dourado

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February 2022

Going deep with Quaise

As we drill into the earth from the surface, we travel through layers of sedimentary cover and eventually hit basement rock. Basement rock is ancient…

Feb 8, 2022 • 

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July 2021

The state of next-generation geothermal energy

What would we do with abundant energy?

Jul 6, 2021 • 

Eli Dourado

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January 2021

December 2020

Notes on technology in the 2020s

As we start a new decade, it’s a good time to reflect on expectations for the next 10 years.

Dec 31, 2020 • 

Eli Dourado

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January 2020

The Space Launch System is part of a swamp that needs to be drained

For my first post at CGO’s Benchmark blog, I chose to write about the Space Launch System, the rocket that Boeing and other military contractors are…

Jan 30, 2020 • 

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October 2019

2020 could be the year Bitcoin's fee market is put to the test

In a few decades when the reward gets too small, the transaction fee will become the main compensation for nodes.

Oct 2, 2019 • 

Eli Dourado