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Engineers at Work and Play Part 2: Always Be Engineering: A Candidate’s Tale
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All the names of the people and organizations have been changed to protect the innocent for this fictional HR tale, inspired by true stories. So it’s me Eric, 38 years old, with my “have an engineering degree will travel” attitude, and I’m about to put it to the test.…
Heavy Industry Engineers at Work and Play Part 1: Blowing Off Steam in the Industrial Complex
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Atlas shrugging, essential raw material costs spiking if they’re available at all, environmental obstacles, and the real epidemic of Force Majeure Clauses, a term that far too many of us have become familiar with in the year we’re calling Catch 2022. Sound familiar? “We’re getting half-loads every day now.…
When Atlas Shrugs Part 2: The Industrial Complex Strikes Back in Catch 2022
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As a refugee from communism herself, Ayn Rand saw the disastrous consequences of the global socialist mindset in action, and the degeneration it can cause in a free market republic, way back in the 1930s. Atlas Shrugged is her prophetic blueprint of the inevitable, logical consequences of illogical socialist…
Is Atlas Shrugging in 2022? The US Industrial Complex Under Fire: Part 1
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Ayn Rand’s landmark novel, Atlas Shrugged is a favorite with philosophers and libertarians alike. But at 1,168 pages Rand’s thesis/manifesto/novel is perhaps not so fondly recalled by those who found it on the required reading list. Engineers, plant managers, and especially heavy industry CEOs enduring turbulent 2022 just might…
Lithium Refiners are at the Mercy of Miners
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Falling EV Profit Margins in Summer 2022 Elon Musk has called the intense process of getting lithium out of the ground, subsequently refined, and into his Teslas as “the hard part” of the EV manufacturing supply chain. The billionaire engineer with an MBA even went so far as to…
Biden’s Green Energy Policies Put a Huge Dent in the US Aluminum Supply
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High-Cost Energy Crunch Shuts Down Century Aluminum Plant in 2022 At Century Aluminum, 600 laid-off American workers in Hawkesville, Kentucky are paying the immediate penalty for the Biden administration’s aggressive push to green energy. With natural gas prices tripling under the Biden regime, the second largest US aluminum mill…
