I heard that Elon is uploading all the engineering history of Tesla, Spacex, Boring, Neuralink, et al, into Grok training data. AI advances in engineering efficiency and productivity can't add new welders but will certainly advance automation and robotics. As in other contexts, AI can also enhance the efficiency of the meatspace. It can help train new entrants and work alongside journeymen as a loyal wingman. None of it solves immediate Arctic access, but it does bode well for long-term shipbuilding.
Thank you for this story. I had no idea! Whether it's assumptions that "someone in charge is covering all bases" to misdirection and waste of taxpayer money on railways to nowhere, etc., we've been lulled into false security. Our grid needs to be rebuilt, not patched up. There are energy alternatives, and it's not disgusting acres of solar panels and alien-looking monstrous windmills, none of which can be recycled when they die, AND, they're made in China. Mike Rowe, get those young men and women trained up FAST!
What effect has the Jones Act had on this country’s ship building industry? Need I ask. Will building this fleet of ice breakers go around the jones act?
Your question prompted me because I was thinking I heard about this on the YouTube channel, "What Is Going On With Shipping?"
I thought I had heard on there that he Jones act was temporarily suspended. I was correct and curious what Grok said:
The Jones Act is a 1920 law that requires cargo moving between U.S. ports to be carried on ships that are built, owned, and crewed by Americans. It's a protectionist measure meant to support the domestic maritime industry. Right now, it's not fully in effect. President Trump extended a waiver just yesterday for another 90 days, running through mid-November. The waiver was originally issued in March due to the Iran war disruptions and has been the longest suspension in the law's history. This latest version is narrower than before, covering mostly energy commodities and fertilizers, and each voyage now needs case-by-case approval rather than a blanket exemption.
Alaska and the new states of Greenland and Canada seem like promising locations for expansion. Also, we need mine sweepers...yesterday.
I heard that Elon is uploading all the engineering history of Tesla, Spacex, Boring, Neuralink, et al, into Grok training data. AI advances in engineering efficiency and productivity can't add new welders but will certainly advance automation and robotics. As in other contexts, AI can also enhance the efficiency of the meatspace. It can help train new entrants and work alongside journeymen as a loyal wingman. None of it solves immediate Arctic access, but it does bode well for long-term shipbuilding.
Thank you for this story. I had no idea! Whether it's assumptions that "someone in charge is covering all bases" to misdirection and waste of taxpayer money on railways to nowhere, etc., we've been lulled into false security. Our grid needs to be rebuilt, not patched up. There are energy alternatives, and it's not disgusting acres of solar panels and alien-looking monstrous windmills, none of which can be recycled when they die, AND, they're made in China. Mike Rowe, get those young men and women trained up FAST!
What effect has the Jones Act had on this country’s ship building industry? Need I ask. Will building this fleet of ice breakers go around the jones act?
Your question prompted me because I was thinking I heard about this on the YouTube channel, "What Is Going On With Shipping?"
I thought I had heard on there that he Jones act was temporarily suspended. I was correct and curious what Grok said:
The Jones Act is a 1920 law that requires cargo moving between U.S. ports to be carried on ships that are built, owned, and crewed by Americans. It's a protectionist measure meant to support the domestic maritime industry. Right now, it's not fully in effect. President Trump extended a waiver just yesterday for another 90 days, running through mid-November. The waiver was originally issued in March due to the Iran war disruptions and has been the longest suspension in the law's history. This latest version is narrower than before, covering mostly energy commodities and fertilizers, and each voyage now needs case-by-case approval rather than a blanket exemption.
Very interesting. Thanks for that update.