Getting optimistic and positively good news every Sunday is uplifting after a week of experts credibly writing why they know that something awful is about to happen. Nothing better than being able to forward the Rational Optimist to friends and family. Thank you
Fabulous, more articles like this please. It restores my faith in North American know how. I love the line about how all those engineers at Google and Facebook did little but figure out how to increase ad revenue, what a sad reality.
We don’t have flying cars for the same reason America hasn’t built a nuclear reactor in 50 years: bad government. Specifically, a government that constantly tries to do everything, except protect the rights of liberty and property.
Read about AstroForge today, then read the following in The NY Times in regard to auto manufacturers trying to get away from rare earths:
BMW’s electric vehicles already use motors that operate without rare earths. Researchers at Northeastern University and other institutions are working to synthesize materials that have promising magnetic properties and are found only in meteorites.
Question on sodium (salt?) reactors. Salt stay liquid at high temperatures so doesn't need to be kept under pressure. It's safer, has lower constructions costs, is smaller, and takes less time to build. But salt is pretty corrosive, right? How does that get managed? Thank you.
Getting optimistic and positively good news every Sunday is uplifting after a week of experts credibly writing why they know that something awful is about to happen. Nothing better than being able to forward the Rational Optimist to friends and family. Thank you
Great stuff as always, keep up the good work!
Very interesting to this 84-year-old who is not particularly tech savvy. I really am supportive of the small nuclear reactors.
Always a great read. Great to hear about the great innovations and breakthroughs.
Thank you! Reading ROS it’s always a great way to start the week.
Uplifting and motivational as always. You folks do a great job!
Thanks. Some interesting things for sure.
Fabulous, more articles like this please. It restores my faith in North American know how. I love the line about how all those engineers at Google and Facebook did little but figure out how to increase ad revenue, what a sad reality.
Good to read, "Fresh off our Rational Optimists Take America tour, I am happy to confirm there’s been a shift in the zeitgeist. "
The world needs beacons of optimism through the fog of pessimism.
We don’t have flying cars for the same reason America hasn’t built a nuclear reactor in 50 years: bad government. Specifically, a government that constantly tries to do everything, except protect the rights of liberty and property.
The price of gold maybe dropping or we can bring back gold coins currency.
Hi Dan,
I am a big lover of your optimistic mail BUT you have been going on an about the same stuff a bit too much, in my humble view!
I hope all is well with other parts of the optimistic world aswell!!
Kind regards,
Kees.
Read about AstroForge today, then read the following in The NY Times in regard to auto manufacturers trying to get away from rare earths:
BMW’s electric vehicles already use motors that operate without rare earths. Researchers at Northeastern University and other institutions are working to synthesize materials that have promising magnetic properties and are found only in meteorites.
Question on sodium (salt?) reactors. Salt stay liquid at high temperatures so doesn't need to be kept under pressure. It's safer, has lower constructions costs, is smaller, and takes less time to build. But salt is pretty corrosive, right? How does that get managed? Thank you.
Have you looked at the drone swarm ideas from fractal computing? https://fractalcomputing.substack.com/.
I’m having trouble working out if they’re underrated geniuses or just brilliant BS merchants.