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The cut edges of stacked metal sheets, each leaf a separate bright line.

Europe can finance a factory it cannot staff

The capital arrived before the argument was finished. That is the wrong order, and it is the reason so many announced plants stay announced.

Jul 28, 2026

A torn sheet of white lying across a weathered metal plate, the two surfaces meeting on one hard diagonal.

Fig.A torn sheet lying across a weathered plate. Most of what is written here is an attempt to get one straight edge onto something that did not arrive with one.

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Manufacturing

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Europe can finance a factory it cannot staff

Europe can finance a factory it cannot staff

Notes from a room where nobody was allowed to network

The word "holding" is doing a lot of work

What a solar installer knows that a solar investor does not

On starting things before there is a business case