- As water scarcity increases, people are getting creative about finding “new” water. In Athens, that means re-opening a 2,000 year old aqueduct.
- I “met” Pete the shipwright when he was working on Tally-Ho. Now he’s got his own YT channel about “rough and tough” ship restoration. Nice to see how working boats are handled, rather than just yachts.
- The Netherlands is introducing a heat index because that’s how CC will mess with us.
- Listen to How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War
- Waterless urinals use some interesting technology
- Listen to Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea
- Climate chaos is driving demand for weather derivatives to hedge risk.
- Meanwhile in the Netherlands, people are turning away from EVs as the government removes subsidies and Amsterdam — in a move that strikes straight in my boating budget — has reduced the discount on permits for boats with electronic motors (against the price of permits for gasoline engines) from 70% in 2024 to 35% in 2025. That’s NOT how you encourage people to drive (or boat) green!
H/T to DL