Alex is the founder of the Terawatt Times Institute, developing cognitive-structural frameworks for AI, energy transitions, and societal change. His work examines how emerging technologies reshape political behavior and civilizational stability.
Executive Tier | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 8 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Houston is one of the few places on earth where cheap energy, heavy industry, port logistics, and technical institutions line up strongly enough to make it a genuine “decarbonization lab.” This
Executive Tier | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 7 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Houston is emerging as the only U.S. region capable of executing a full industrial reshoring flywheel—where six structural advantages combine into a self-reinforcing system of growth. Its low-cost, high-volatility
Professional Tier | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 6 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary This article argues that the greatest danger of modern machine systems is not their errors but their invisibility. The crashes of Lion Air 610 and Ethiopian 302 illustrate this: both crews
Executive Summary The clean energy transition suffers from a fundamental structural problem: ecosystem participants operate in incompatible risk regimes, making most attempted connections fail regardless of execution quality. This paper introduces the 15-Cell Resource Ontology, a framework that maps the entire clean energy ecosystem through the intersection of three risk
Professional Tier | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 5 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Twenty-first century corporate sovereignty is no longer about asset ownership—it's about permission-free operation. When ExxonMobil's Baytown refinery lost API access to GE Predix and AWS IoT,
Professional Tier | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 4 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Extreme environments—offshore wind, desert solar, and subsurface storage—reveal how automation reshapes production. When machines stay in place and humans decide from afar, presence turns from cost into advantage. Continuous,
Professional Tier | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 3 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary For over a decade, manufacturing reshoring has been stuck in a catch-22: no factories without supply chains, no supply chains without factories. Subsidies and slow, human-dependent scaling have failed to break
Summery In 1989, Fukuyama declared history ended with liberal democracy's triumph. This essay argues it just rebooted at higher difficulty. Trump, Milei, Meloni each seemed locally explicable—regional populism, economic dysfunction. Then Mamdani, a democratic socialist, won in Queens. Same country as Trump, opposite ideology. This is the
Public Access (Free Member) | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 2 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary This essay argues that automation is not just transforming production but reorganizing the geography of carbon. As human labor is replaced by machines, energy shifts from dispersed biological and
Public Access (Free Member) | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 1 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary America’s 2010s reshoring push failed not for lack of money or machinery, but because specialization trapped labor, parts, and knowledge in place. Apple’s Austin factory exposed the
Abstract In an era where digital technologies—culminating in generative AI—have driven content production costs toward zero, traditional metrics of influence—views, shares, followers—have become fundamentally inadequate. We introduce Influence Energetics, a theoretical framework that reconceptualizes influence not as information diffusion, but as thermodynamic work: the transformation of
Executive Tier | Series: THE GREAT OVERLOAD (Part 8 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Disclaimer: This article provides methodological frameworks and decision-making tools for energy infrastructure evaluation and project execution. Example calculations are based on reasonable assumptions and industry-typical parameters, designed to illustrate framework logic rather than
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