# Our ability to do things in atomland is dying a death by 1000 cuts 1. The FAA needs data on low boom technology to approve supersonic overland, while the private sector needs the regulatory certainty of a noise standard to invest in the technology. The result is a Catch-22 that Congress could resolve with a single sentence. https://twitter.com/hamandcheese/status/1616090484333502465?s=12&t=vGHHoXtDsfrU9mo5E2GugA 2. There used to be tons of smaller trucks on the road before Obama-era emissions standards made them near impossible. Since standards decrease as vehicle size increases, the easiest way for manufacturers to comply is to build a bigger truck. https://twitter.com/AndToddsaid/status/1616237528809459714?s=20&t=7j7xJbZa947L42uRmm24EQ 3. Paperwork for doing cancer trials has been ballooning [Sarah Constantin \(@s_r_constantin\) on X](https://x.com/s_r_constantin/status/1810301708276204017) 4. ![](8EAA7A9B-3235-47F7-A3E7-EB3C2964AAB7.png) 2. ITAR regulations : https://twitter.com/thebrianmcmanus/status/1618829462656921605 3. Building nuclear plants https://twitter.com/chrisbarnarddl/status/1618667110271692800?s=12&t=DAa0LWt8alF7gHAf_T4DAA * [Bureaucratic Red Tape Is Blocking a U.S. Nuclear Renaissance | RealClearEnergy](https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/01/23/bureaucratic_red_tape_is_blocking_a_us_nuclear_renaissance_877124.html) 4. TODO No free agency for university inventors [Just Say “No” to Free Agency](https://community.autm.net/browse/blogs/blogviewer?BlogKey=e3c922c1-1c70-4ced-9194-ed9e4d328036) 5. Friction around how much health insurance companies can have discounts based on outcomes. It looks like certain wellness programs that are allowed, but there are limits on what you can do if you make it outcome-contingent. https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-activities/resource-center/publications/caghipaaandaca.pdf 6. [Amazon’s No-Fly Zone: Drone Delivery Largely Grounded Despite Splashy Launch — The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazons-no-fly-zone-drone-delivery-largely-grounded-despite-splashy-launch) 7. [The Jones Act Doesn’t Work Like You Think](https://maximumprogress.substack.com/p/the-jones-act-doesnt-work-like-you) 8. Increasing regulations and fees have brought the count of parklets in SF down from 2,000 to 700 https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1619536201849131009?s=12&t=39xMk5wzwMuUAHvND4L6t[https://growsf.substack.com/p/the-growsf-report-healthy-sf-mandate](https://t.co/N5DtWGw3aP) 9. It shouldn’t take 21 days to get an appointment for a visitor visa to the US — let alone 872 (!??) days. https://twitter.com/calebwatney/status/1620177409269186561?s=12&t=uKwtEBupCYfavVDXvB5Xbw 10. thee faa still doesn’t have bvr/blos guidelines, it’s been more than seven years https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1620219346676219904?s=12&t=PAYyFzEHgO7b7yaro2b2PQ 11. [New Red Tape Makes New Nuclear Reactors Impossible | National Review](https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/01/new-red-tape-makes-new-nuclear-reactors-impossible/) 12. You need to incorporate as a business to legally hire a nanny 13. Sesame labeling regulations 14. [[potterKleinConstruction2023]] 15. Big new initiatives are always started through established players (See [[Regional Innovation Engines]] 16. Government earmarks tons of money but it’s incredibly opaque for how to do it 17. You need to get OSHA training to go down a fucking ladder 18. 18 King Cove residents have died trying to travel to the Cold Bay airport for medevac transport to Anchorage. Despite the seriousness of the issue, the Biden admin and environmental groups refuse to let them build a road to it 1. https://twitter.com/PirateWires/status/1639643168126947328?s=20 19. Laguardia air train costs exploded and project was scrapped because of environmental review 1. https://twitter.com/alecstapp/status/1635371164251070464?s=12&t=vQS7-o_X5V66ZpHkzkQSpw 20. State department missing deadlines on responding to senate 1. https://twitter.com/jeremylneufeld/status/1635396170590859264?s=12&t=vQS7-o_X5V66ZpHkzkQSpw 21. Canadian launch startup SpaceRyde has filed for bankruptcy just months after noise complaints put an end to rocket engine tests [Noise complaints help bring down launch startup SpaceRyde - SpaceNews](https://t.co/m0okCxgkw2) 22. “The average amount of time required to prepare a single proposal ranges from 170 h to 270 h …. This equates to roughly $8500 to $13,400 USD in salary costs alone. Actual costs per proposal can be $20,000 on average when administrative overhead rates are included.” https://twitter.com/umbut/status/1633601468879224832?s=12&t=rfhHE0IyZxJMM_7qHOvt5w 23. It took about 2,500 days from President Kennedy’s “We Choose to Go to the Moon” speech to the Apollo 11 moon landing. It will take about 3,300 days from first Connecticut Avenue NW safety study to expected completion of construction in Winter 2028. https://twitter.com/tuckcomatus/status/1647030932447084544?s=20 24. <Alex Stapp post about restoring the Mall Carosel> 25. iOS development where every build has to be reviewed by Apple... even when it's just a tiny opt-in beta! [Devon ☀️ \(@devonzuegel\) on X](https://x.com/devonzuegel/status/1756536976134525434?s=20) 26. [Adam Ozimek \(@ModeledBehavior\) on X](https://x.com/ModeledBehavior/status/1763384417836224744?s=20) Once again regulatory burden standing in the way. Folks we have a huge problem. Re: Funding office-to-housing conversions isn’t working 27. [[Government contracts often require a full-time administrator]] 28. Regional innovation hubs need to be consortia all going through university bureaucracy 29. Regional innovation hubs are all around very specific technologies - Birmingham, AL (CCUS, forestry, nature-based solutions) * Little Rock, Arkansas (lithium mining and EV materials) * Baltimore, MD (supply chain resilience, bio-based materials) * Miami, FL (coastal resilience) * Jersey City, NJ (offshore wind, long duration energy storage, power-to-x) * Portland, OR (marine electrification, bio-based materials) * New Haven, CT (quantum computing for materials discovery) * New Orleans, LA (DAC, CCS, clean hydrogen, SAF) * Tokyo (green hydrogen) * Oman (geologic / natural / stimulated hydrogen) * New Zealand * Western Australia (CDR - carbon mineralization and DAC) <!-- #list --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Our+ability+to+do+things+in+atomland+is+dying+a+death+by+1000+cuts) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Our+ability+to+do+things+in+atomland+is+dying+a+death+by+1000+cuts)