Rian Chad Whitton
@RianCFFWhitton
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Analyst and researcher at @bismarckanlys. Formerly @ABIresearch. Upstream statist.
London, United Kingdom
Joined October 2021
New Syn Post: Febrile Decay: Electricity as a share of consumption has flatlined, even as its share of energy-related expenditure has rocketed.
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RT @benlandautaylor: Wasn’t it literally last year we had the big "liberal technocrats are shocked to see the best randomized controlled st….
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An assumption of U.S. manufacturing over the last 20 years is that, while it has not grown, it may have become more efficient. But capacity utilisation is down as well.
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The Tory vote has stabilised at just under 20%, despite a total leadership vacuum and Reform emerging as the more obvious Right option. So there are actually lots of Tory sentimentalists.
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RT @St2station: It is *not* a strength of Globo Talent Arbitrage system that it’s *strongest* argument for immigrants and their descendants….
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RT @mmjukic: Not donating large amounts of money to aligned causes, people, and organizations before you get divorced or die is a major soc….
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RT @SamoBurja: Recent news of acquisitions in Germany by Chinese companies makes this 2022 Bismarck Brief on Chinese industrial robotics ti….
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RT @MDC12345678: If you believe that energy is an enabler of human flourishing then this by @RianCFFWhitton explains a lot about the UK tod….
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RT @bswud: The life expectancy of someone hit with 2,250 millisieverts of radiation in Hiroshima or Nagasaki was longer than the average Br….
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RT @surplustakes: What is going on here? A fertility boom? Over the last 5 years? Localised entirely within the university sector? https://….
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RT @MarkoMatvikov: Our most valuable public companies include 3 banks in the top 5 and 5 in the top 10. This is not what a diverse and dyn….
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Interestingly, the biggest cruise ships are built in Finland.
Airplanes today fly no faster than they did in the 1970s. In many countries, road speeds have decreased. Flying cars never showed up. In developed countries, the tallest buildings have only inched higher. Most rich countries produce less energy per capita than they did 20 years
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RT @SamoBurja: The Chinese auto maker BYD has surpassed Tesla in electric vehicle production and is on track to become the largest-ever car….
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RT @RobertBoswall: Britain's electricity system is sleep walking. We were not supposed to be here. Contracts for Difference were explicity….
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Total private sector manufacturing investment adjusted for inflation. Under 1% CAGR between 1997 and 2024, as industry at large as become more capital-intensive.
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This would leave just one olefin cracker, down from three in one year.
As means of destroying our industrial base - sky high energy costs and carbon taxes could hardly be improved upon.
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Huh. It looks like the U.S. plus Australia will be able to do rare earth metal refining at scale.
How did China quietly corner the world’s supply of minor metals and rare earths and reshape global industry?. In the 1980s the west assumed the free market would guarantee supply of rare earths like antimony, tungsten, or magnesium. Under Deng Xiaoping, China began exploiting
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Poor young men. In aggregate, they're more docile than they have ever been and have less influence than ever. Yet still they are the focus of a senile moral panic.
Creating better economic opportunities for young men will do more than youth clubs.
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Industries with more turnover than offshore wind and solar manufacturing in 2023 (ONS business survey / LCREE). Manufacture of beer - £9 billion.Building of pleasure and sporting boats - £1.1 billion.Manufacture of carpets and rugs - £997 million.
New Synpost! Forget the 'Green Industrial Revolution' and focus on the basics. The 'Green Economy' is tiny and not getting much bigger. Wind and solar manufacturing have lower 2023 turnovers than the manufacture of pleasure boats or carpets. Read more here:
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RT @david_cowan: Hard tech needs energy - and lots of it - in the race to win the next Industrial Revolution. From AI data centres to manu….
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