Object Zero
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Doer of the difficult. Champion for talent. Inventor of things. Builder of Machines. North Sea O&G, Nuclear Power, Subsea, Heavy Manufacturing.
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The West has around 1,000 tonnes of fissile nuclear fuel. We have 1,200,000 tonnes of depleted uranium, which is not fissile fuel. There are 2 breeder reactors in the world (both in Russia), that can turn depleted uranium into nuclear fuel. These reactors do it whilst also…
Kinetic Theory The Kinetic Theory of gas is where gas is modelled as a bunch of tiny particles that each have mass, velocity, inertia and kinetic energy (Newtonian stuff). This theory turned out to he a useful way to mathematically model the volume, pressure and temperature of…
What am I saying here? Kardashev’s open scale is naive, because of special relativity. Because of special relativity… the faster a clock runs, the smaller the coherent diameter can be. eg a 1GHz CPU becomes asynchronous at distances larger than 1 inch. “So run parallel…
The Kardashev Scale - and why I secretly hate it (I’m an engineer, not an astronomer) It ranks civilisations by total power consumption; planetary (type I), stellar (type II), galactic (type III). It treats intelligence as a function of energy throughput, so its logical…
The Kardashev Scale - and why I secretly hate it (I’m an engineer, not an astronomer) It ranks civilisations by total power consumption; planetary (type I), stellar (type II), galactic (type III). It treats intelligence as a function of energy throughput, so its logical…
Mechanical Design Eye If you have spent a meaningful amount of time designing stuff, there are many things you notice with all the objects around you, all the time. It becomes a sort of curse. It never goes away. For example… below is one of the things that is invisible to…
Roman Metallurgy Some of the earliest examples of industry was Roman metallurgy. The picture left below show lead ingots mined in Categena, Spain and hammered into ingots for transport. These lead ingots would then be hammered into sheets and rolled around wooden mandrels to…
Why UK electricity is so expensive. “Gas sets the electricity price” <- political spin The only reason gas sets the price for the entire UK electricity market is because gas operates as the peaker. When you have a highly volatile electricity grid, as the UK now does, the…
The biggest Q people want me to ask is 'why the hell do we pay more for energy than anyone else in Europe?' A snip from full Martin v Ofgem boss new episode of the Martin Lewis Podcast. Listen to it all on BBC Sounds, Apple, Spotify & all the usual pod players.…
What is Friction? Firstly, friction doesn’t actually exist in physics, it’s a phenomena that arises as a combined output of several different things all happening at the same time. So what are they? 1. Surface roughness and mechanical interlocking. This is the most intuitive,…
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook If you’re doing a deep tech startup, or a new engineering company, or a small engineering company that wants to grow (you get the point), then this document is the most valuable thing you can own. It details a complete engineering document…
People are worried about nuclear weapons, or GM viruses. But if generative AI gets to the point where it can make narrative coherent 4K video for $1/hr, then humans will build the matrix and the human race will queue up to voluntarily lock itself inside it. Doesn’t seem that…
I would love to see a massive effort at AI-upscaling WW2 footage. I'd watch that like a 24 hour news channel.
Tungsten It has the highest melting point of all known elements and is about as dense as uranium or gold. You can’t really melt tungsten down and cast it easily as it would require insane energy and container materials. It’s hard as hell and very brittle so it’s very difficult…
Offshore Engineering The Aasta Hansteen Spar platform is engineered to survive 30 meter wave heights. It is immune to Category 5 hurricanes, winds and seas. The spar column is 200m tall ballasted with concrete and moored to the sea bed in water that is a mile deep. It’s…
Plant Equipment If you’re bored and wondering what to do this weekend, why not hire a mini digger? Run a cable under your lawn or remove a tree stump, very defendable if you can think of a plausible excuse. Even ad hoc landscaping. 1. It’s fun 2. Check off one of your…
This could happen much sooner than people think. There are 500 suitable sites around the world. That’s $1 quadrillion GDP.
This is what a $2 trillion economy will look like by 2050. + 1x port facility with 3x8km lay down area + 1x robot fab plant producing 100 bots / hr + 1x 1GW datacenter running inference + 1x 3GW nuclear power station = 2 million robots labouring 24/7 in temp buildings
The Falkirk Wheel In Falkirk, Scotland there’s the world’s only “boat lift wheel thingy” It can lift about 1,000 tonnes 80ft with just 1.5kWh of energy, because it’s cleverly balanced. The slew rings are 6.5meter diameter (from SKF obviously). The world should have a lot more…
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