China
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The Factory Must Grow
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13 min read
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China’s Three-Body Problem
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4 min read
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The Factory Must Grow
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13 min read
In Factorio, the cult factory-building game that has consumed millions of hours from engineers and optimisation addicts, players quickly learn a counterintuitive lesson: the solution to inefficiency isn’t optimisation—it’s scale. When your iron smelting array can’t keep up with demand, you don’t fine-tune the existing setup. You build another one. Then another. You sprawl across
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China’s Three-Body Problem
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4 min read
In Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem, the Trisolarans face an existential challenge. Their planet orbits three suns in a chaotic, unpredictable system. Survival demands planning across centuries, not quarters. Beijing’s energy strategists face their own trisolaran dilemma—balancing three competing forces: economic growth, energy security, and decarbonisation. Get the balance wrong and the system destabilises. The
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The Factory Must Grow
•
13 min read
In Factorio, the cult factory-building game that has consumed millions of hours from engineers and optimisation addicts, players quickly learn a counterintuitive lesson: the solution to inefficiency isn’t optimisation—it’s scale. When your iron smelting array can’t keep up with demand, you don’t fine-tune the existing setup. You build another one. Then another. You sprawl across…
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China’s Three-Body Problem
•
4 min read
In Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem, the Trisolarans face an existential challenge. Their planet orbits three suns in a chaotic, unpredictable system. Survival demands planning across centuries, not quarters. Beijing’s energy strategists face their own trisolaran dilemma—balancing three competing forces: economic growth, energy security, and decarbonisation. Get the balance wrong and the system destabilises. The…