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Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure and industrial technology.
欢迎来到阅读列表,这是与建筑、基础设施和工业技术相关的新闻和链接的每周综述。
This week we look at a Senate permitting reform bill, the potential of Tesla’s Cybercab, the Navy’s $200 billion worth of shipyard renovations, a possible plan to return a SR-71 to service, and more.
本周,我们将关注参议院批准的改革法案、特斯拉 Cybercab 的潜力、海军价值 2000 亿美元的造船厂翻新工程、SR-71 重返服役的可能计划等等。
Roughly 2/3rds of the reading list is paywalled, so for full access become a paid subscriber.
大约 2/3 的阅读列表是付费的,因此要获得完整的访问权限,请成为付费订阅者。
The senate has released the text for a permitting reform bill, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act.
参议院发布了允许改革法案的文本,即《两党美国负担能力和就业法案》。
My IFP colleague Aidan Mackenzie has a brief overview of what’s in it, as does Thomas Hochman at FAI.
我的 IFP 同事 Aidan Mackenzie 和 FAI 的 Thomas Hochman 简要概述了其中的内容。
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A tweet confirming my biases that people mostly don’t care about building aesthetics, and that improving aesthetics/design is not a particularly good avenue for addressing NIMBYism.
一条推文证实了我的偏见,即人们大多不关心建筑美学,而改善美学/设计并不是解决邻避主义的特别好的途径。
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A New York judge rules that NYC’s new tax on second homes wasn’t implemented correctly, and needs to be redone.
纽约法官裁定,纽约市对第二套住房的新税实施不正确,需要重做。
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Ozzi of State Supreme Court on Staten Island, sided with a group of homeowners who had sued the city.
史坦顿岛州最高法院的奥齐站在一群起诉该市的房主一边。
The homeowners had argued that the Mamdani administration’s Department of Finance did not try hard enough to determine who should owe the tax before moving toward collecting it.
房主们辩称,马姆达尼政府的财政部在开始征税之前没有尽全力确定谁应该欠税。
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Friend of the newsletter Austin Vernon on the potential of Tesla’s Cybercab, and the ways its driving down manufacturing costs.
时事通讯之友奥斯汀·弗农 (Austin Vernon) 介绍了特斯拉 Cybercab 的潜力及其降低制造成本的方法。
“ Painting cars has become an enormous pain.
“给汽车喷漆已经成为一种巨大的痛苦。
The paint shops are expensive, trigger all sorts of environmental thresholds, and they complicate production.
喷漆车间造价昂贵,会引发各种环境阈值,而且使生产变得复杂。
Usually doors have to be put on the car, painted, taken off for assembly, then put back on at the end.
通常,必须将车门安装到汽车上、喷漆、拆下进行组装,最后再装回。
Painting really has to go.
画画确实该走了。
Tesla tried a stainless steel exoskeleton with Cybertruck, but that ended up being challenging.
特斯拉在 Cybertruck 上尝试了不锈钢外骨骼,但最终充满挑战。
The Cybercab has injection-molded plastic body panels instead of typical painted sheet metal.
Cybercab 采用注塑塑料车身面板,而不是典型的涂漆金属板。
Cars have had plastic body panels before, but the panels didn’t come out with a good finish or color, requiring painting.
汽车以前也有塑料车身面板,但面板的表面处理或颜色不佳,需要喷漆。
Tesla’s “Reactive Injection Molding” parts do come with a smooth finish and with color incorporated so the paint shop can finally disappear, greatly simplifying production .” [ Austin Vernon ]
特斯拉的“反应注塑”部件确实具有光滑的表面和颜色,因此喷漆车间最终可以消失,从而大大简化了生产。” [ 奥斯汀·弗农 ]
Mesabi Metallics is planning a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa, the “largest single investment ever made in a US steel facility.” It looks like instead of a blast furnace , the mill will use direct reduction of iron ore, which will then be fed into electric arc furnaces.
Mesabi Metallics 计划在爱荷华州建造一座价值 150 亿美元的钢铁厂,这是“美国钢铁厂有史以来最大的单笔投资”。看起来该工厂将不再使用高炉,而是直接还原铁矿石,然后将其送入电弧炉。
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Raytheon gets a contract to produce AMRAAM missiles worth up to $20.7 billion.
雷神公司获得了一份生产 AMRAAM 导弹的合同,价值高达 207 亿美元。
[ Breaking Defense ] And in addition to building the F-47, Boeing has also won the competition to build the next generation fighter for the US Navy.
【破防】而除了建造F-47之外,波音还赢得了为美国海军建造下一代战斗机的竞争。
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A Federal Reserve paper estimates that semiconductor shortgages in 2021-2022 reduced US car production by more than 2 million vehicles.
美联储的一份文件估计,2021-2022 年半导体短缺导致美国汽车产量减少超过 200 万辆。
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The Washington Post editorial board argues that we shouldn’t ban Chinese-made cars in the US.
《华盛顿邮报》编委会认为,我们不应该禁止中国制造的汽车进入美国。
I didn’t realize that a substantial number of cars already had large numbers of Chinese parts, and that some actually had final assembly in China.
我没有意识到,相当多的汽车已经拥有大量中国零部件,而且有些实际上是在中国进行总装的。
“ Two cars for the American market from U.S. brands, the Lincoln Nautilus and Buick Envision, have final assembly in China using nearly all-Chinese parts.
“林肯鹦鹉螺和别克昂科威这两款美国品牌面向美国市场的汽车在中国进行总装,几乎全部使用中国零部件。
Thirty-nine other automobiles from model year 2026 that are on the roads have Chinese parts, including several that are assembled in the U.S., according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
据美国国家公路交通安全管理局称,道路上行驶的其他 39 辆 2026 年款汽车也配备了中国零部件,其中有几辆是在美国组装的。
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SpaceX’s Terafab is scheduled to be constructed and begin operations very quickly.
SpaceX 的 Terafab 计划很快建成并开始运营。
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Claims that China is preventing firms from setting up lithium-iron-phosphate battery plants in India.
声称中国正在阻止企业在印度设立磷酸铁锂电池工厂。
“ LFP is not available anywhere in the world outside of China, and right now they are guarding it like a weapon.
“ LFP 在中国以外的任何地方都无法使用,现在他们像武器一样守护着它。
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