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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…
When Your Kid Just May Be an Engineer!
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Great Engineering Toys of the Industrial Revolution at Resource Erectors And we’re not talking about Choo-choo Charlie and his Lionels here. So far in our romp through the history of the Industrial Revolution, we’ve spotlighted the great innovations of engineering such as the steam engine, the precursor to the…
Driving the Industrial Revolution: Engineering that changed the world
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An ongoing series by the heavy industry watchers at Resource Erectors. In our recent article here at Resource Erectors, we focused on two of the unsung Engineering Heroes of the Industrial Revolution. Now it’s time to take a look at two machine innovations that kickstarted the Industrial Revolution using…
Engineering Heroes of the Industrial Revolution
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Does Elon Musk Belong on Interesting Engineering’s The 20+ Greatest Engineers of All Time list? We had an enjoyable time here at Resource Erectors, scrolling through this impressive list of engineering Hall of Famers at InterestingEngineering. But from the industrial history point of view, we’d do a bit of…
Hiring Priorities and Wage Inflation Amidst Global Economic Uncertainty in Q3 2022
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“For the balance of 2022 and 2023, the company will focus on hiring on engineering, technical, and other critical roles,”- Google CEO Sundar Pichai –Google Slows Hiring Big Tech’s Hiring Slowdown in 2022 Google’s Sundar Pichai isn’t the only CEO placing a laser-like focus on essential engineering recruiting and…