Sorry to hear that! Modern trick takers can be very unintuitive, even if you're familiar with 500, etc. Have you tried any of the classic 'gateway games' like Carcassonne, Catan, Azul, etc.?

It feels like every day there's a new Anthropic blog post which is tanking a different section of the stock market...

It depends on the games and the people! What games have you been bouncing off?

Australians are quietly patriotic, and why wouldn't you be?
- Compulsory preferential voting.
- Watching the cricket on free to air TV.
- A quality, ad-free ABC.

Today we can add:
- A social media ban on under-16s. Sensible, evidence-driven policy in the face of megalithic corporate interests.

The Chemistry and Thermodynamics of Point Source CO2 Capture by Liquid Chemical Absorption and Its Impact on Process Performance Point source carbon capture is a technology that has been developed to separate carbon dioxide (CO2) from gas mixtures prior to emission to the atmosphere. It is considered a crucial technology to man...

Read our CCS review in ACS Chemical Reviews to learn:

- Why modern packings have pressure drop 10x lower than Sherwood predicted.
- Why organic liquids have slow kinetics at high temperature
- When agitation increases flux in a chemical solvent.

And much more! 🧪🔌💡

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Explanation of the Ising Model

I continue to vacillate on GenAI in teaching. This is ChatGPT on the isomorphism between the Ising and Gas Lattice models. Its explanation is the worst of both worlds: it sounds authoritative & plausible, yet is nonsensical. (We do have H[n] = H[1-n]). I worry about undergrads relying on this.

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Been very happy to discover standardebooks.org

A well-formatted ebook is so much more enjoyable to read. I've already read some Hemingway and the (hilarious) Jeeves Stories of P. G. Wodehouse; I now have some Agatha Christie lined up on my old kobo (plus more Wodehouse...).

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Quick Guide to STEM Mastery:

1. Learn math
2. Learn everything else

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@davidbryan2100.bsky.social Because 2% of global CO2 emissions come from H2 production, most of which is in fertilizer & chemicals production. It's hard to electrify NH3 production without a source of H2! I agree that wider use of H2 (transport, etc.) is speculative at best and predatory at worst.

100% correct. But we use a lot of grey and black H2 for fertilisers & chemicals production: replacing *existing* use with blue/green H2 is more than enough to justify building out a huge new green industry.

#greensky #energysky 🧪 🔌💡

How Green IS Blue Hydrogen? or Why Green Tech Evaluation is Really, Really Difficult Howarth and Jacobsen's How Green is Blue Hydrogen is one of my favourite articles to come out in the last five years. Not because I agree with ...

Is blue hydrogen as bad as grey hydrogen, or twice as clean as green hydrogen? Reasonable assumptions can lead to either result...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-gr...

Report from 2025's 3rd year "Entropy and Temperature" lecture: gosh this is difficult to teach. One day I'll master the 2h rigorous introduction to entropy... Next year we might experiment with some of the heat engine-based derivations (God forbid). Kardar's approach is tempting: elegant & brief.

I spent some time this morning in Eisberg's Quantum Physics. It's stunning. There's a lot of hype about GenAI for learning. I buy it in domains where notation & facts are key (lean LaTeX; learn woodworking). But in science, nothing can replace a beautiful, well thought through textbook.

Certainly the low hanging fruit!

'We need them to be low' and 'there are realistic policy levers & technologies to make them low' are not always the same thing :)

Yes... provided your upstream methane emissions are low!

I spent the afternoon looking through CVs for a PhD program. All over the world, there are talented young engineers doing beautiful & subtle work. Yet so many of these bright minds have struggled to find work & stability in their home countries. It's heart breaking. We need to do better by them.

As a chemical engineer who has spent more time with the Ergun Equation than the Darcy-Weisbach, I have no dog in this fight.

It's amazing how many equations which were historically derived via fancy math can, in hindsight, follow straight from dimensional analysis. To name a few,
- Stokes equation
- Darcy equation
- Richardson-Zaki

Any others?

Massive cyclone, my house.

Should be a fun weekend.

This is the first I've heard of this; my first reaction is 32 km/h is very, very slow...

#EnergySky #GreenSky #Science

We can make this happen today. Change is within reach. But it requires political talent, political will, persuasion, and a clear-eyed understanding that, with the right economic incentives, dominoes will fall fast. And don't forget to emphasise - a world without oil is a far, far better one. 6/6

Imagine what we could do, and how quickly we could do it, if sensible financial incentives - a price on carbon, a trading scheme with teeth - were in place *today*. Engineers around the world would jump at the chance to show the costings finally make sense, we need to start now, no time to waste. 5/

The same story holds in solar, in wind, in batteries. It's visionary engineers who want to make a difference, pushing against the tide to bring technologies to reality. 4/

Engineers who understand the science, and hate the economic situation we find ourselves in, where there are no incentives for cleaning up processes. Engineers who pushed against shareholders worried about NPV and IRR. Engineers who pushed against politicians worried about the next election cycle. 3/

Think about it. These are multi-billion dollar chemical processes running for no reason whatsoever beyond removing CO2. How did those projects come about? One word: engineers. Engineers who believed in a cleaner industry pushing hard internally for trials, demonstrations, and projects. 2/

I take encouragement from the fact we have made so much progress in clean tech *in spite* of constant political pushback and a lack of sensible economic incentives. 35% of CCS projects are *not* run for the purpose of enhanced oil recovery, or any other purpose beyond preventing CO2 emissions. 1/

As we've seen around the world, if you don't label it a tax, someone else will label it for you!