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Brian Potter

Atlanta
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Writes Construction Physics. Senior infrastructure fellow at @IFP
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US Subways Build Too Many Cross Passages

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By Brian Potter
| construction-physics.com
I wrote the following piece for IFP’s Transit Abundance Playbook, a collection of 15 ideas to improve transit delivery in the US. American transit costs and timelines are substantially higher than those of other developed countries: Spain builds tunneled subway for ~$200 million per mile, while New York spends billions; China built an entire network of high-speed rail while California was failing to connect Bakersfield to Merced.
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Reading List 06/20/26

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By Brian Potter
| construction-physics.com
Old Buildings on the Darro, Granada by David Roberts, via Wikipedia. Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology. This week we look at a new housing bill, General Motors joining the grid-scale battery game, skepticism about data center delays, solid-state air conditioning, and more. Roughly 2/3rds of the reading list is paywalled, so for full access become a paid subscriber.
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Converting Coal Plants to Natural Gas

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By Brian Potter
| construction-physics.com
For the better part of the last several hundred years, coal was the fuel of choice for generating power. Burning coal powered Thomas Newcomen’s steam engine, invented in Britain in the early 18th century, and the first of a line of increasingly efficient converters of coal to usable energy. The Newcomen engine was in fact so inefficient and consumed so much coal that it was almost exclusively used at coal mines, where fuel could be obtained cheaply.
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