Category: Insights
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Nostalgia Is Not a Business Plan
Last week I watched an old Concorde take-off video on YouTube. That iconic nose slowly lifts, the roar of the Olympus engines shakes the screen, then suddenly the runway blurs. Supersonic passenger flight did not die because the technology failed. It died because the technology worked exactly as physics required it to, and physics was…
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The Cowardice of the Anti-Nuclear Consensus
Nuclear energy killed fewer people than coal. That sentence should end the debate, but it never does, and the reason it never does is the first thing worth examining. Chernobyl is not a memory for my generation. Fukushima unfolded when we were children, and whatever appeared on television left no trace most of us can…
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Fusion Energy and the Art of Perpetual Promise
Fusion energy has been thirty years away since 1950. In the 1970s they promised it by 2000. In the 1990s, by 2020. The current target is 2050. This is not a timeline. It is a tradition of postponement, and anyone who treats the next announcement as different from the last one is not paying attention…
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The Weapon That Outran Human Judgment
The Cold War’s “Mutually Assured Destruction” no longer works. You fire a nuclear missile, the other side sees it in thirty minutes, retaliates, and those thirty minutes kept diplomacy alive. Hypersonic weapons shattered that arithmetic: five times the speed of sound, unpredictable trajectory, five to ten minutes of warning. Existing defense systems cannot see them.…
