Object Zero
@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.
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Why stay and fight to save people who are so determined to lose?.
New @YouGov polling shows 75% are in favour of a 2% tax on wealth above £10 million.
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It’s a little surprising that more of the robot startups aren’t basing their core tech on hydraulics. 🤖 . Yes, hydraulic fluid leaks and is dirty but a 21st century consumer robot could use water, which is plentiful and clean in any home. PVC and rubber hardware, with water as.
Successful first test of our contracting fluid-driven artificial muscles. I've got several more small ones to build for the hands, and then I'm cooking up some BIG ones for the arm. 🦾
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RT @Object_Zero_: @DaleVince If renewables were cheaper than fossil fuels the prices of fossil fuels would adjust downward to match / under….
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RT @Object_Zero_: @ClimateDad77 Wrong. Below 200ppm CO2, photosynthesis collapses very quickly. Humanity lighting huge fires and recarbo….
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Do people realise how ubiquitous these big drones are going to be in 10-15 years?. Every postal service in the West is going to disappear, and all of your food, consumer goods and supplies will be delivered by the CCP (as long as they still like you).
Chinese drone maker DJI has introduced a heavy coaxial quadcopter with an 80 kg lift capacity. In comparison the Ukrainian “Vampire” hexacopter lifts 15 kg. Among the characteristics are 62 inch blades, a 30 meter winch line, millimeter wave radar, and machine learning guidance.
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🇺🇸 Energy Math:. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve holds 402 million barrels of oil.= 270 TWh-e if burned in 40% turbines. America’s depleted uranium tailings stockpile.= 6,300,000 TWh-e if burned in breed-burn fast reactor. With the right reactor technology, that’s 23,000x more.
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Some people need to rediscover themselves.
The World’s Largest Floating Dry Dock Was Towed Across the Atlantic to Bermuda in 1869 -. When Britain needed a solution for ship repairs in the Atlantic, engineers in the 1860s built the largest floating dry dock ever attempted, a 380-foot iron structure weighing over 8,000
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Can you play piano anon?.
🍄 🤔 Engineers from the UK have "taught" mushrooms to play musical instruments Everything works due to special sensors that read electrical impulses in the caps, and then turn into commands for motors.
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It’s wrong to believe monolithic ASI will lead to a singularity economic takeoff, because an immortal intelligence would optimise exergy for mininal entropy emission, and not for speed. Only a mortal would optimise for speed. This is our fundamental misalignment with the machines.
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The only difference is that at Hitler rallies, everyone was better dressed.
In all my years skirting the fringes of right-wing groups, I’ve never once been at a meeting or rally where a crowd openly chanted death to anyone, let alone thousands screaming it in unison.
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80 years ago Enrico Fermi and these chaps had an idea to build a new energy generating machine in a squash court, called an “atomic reactor”, 18 months later they had built three different versions, all of them worked.
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What technical engineering delights are unfolding in the world this Friday?. Help me steer my weekend feed away from the gasbagging of politics. Who out there is building (or drawing) a thing that is bigger than 1,000 tonnes, or has $1bn + price tag?.
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I’ve been saying for 18 months that the human trafficking gangs were the Russian Private Military Corporations (PMCs) we are at war with in Ukraine. It’s interesting that the British security services have now stated as such in public. On the same day we go to 5% defence. 🤔.
@hgggrA @SAshworthHayes Draining treasure is the whole point. Do you think tens of millions of people suddenly decided to mass migrate one morning?. The migration is Sino-Russian policy, the human trafficking gangs are the Russian private military corps who are also fighting in Ukraine.
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I’ve been saying this on here for months. Russian private military corporations (PMCs) like Wagner, Redut, Patriot, Convoy…. They’re the organisations behind the small boat invasion and the destabilisation of British society. Now the government’s own security services concur.
🚨 NEW: Government security sources claim Russia is behind the small boats crisis in a bid to overwhelm the UK's border defences and stir division. This includes supplying fake documents, transport, and even military escorts to smuggling gangs. [@TheSun].
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The era of exquisite defence equipment is over, as we enter an era of volume. Military capex will flow into production lines rather than field hardware, and production lines will disappear underground. Literally. Hyperscale industrial bunkers are the new carrier strike group.
Russia’s new fiber-optic drones helped it capture more Ukrainian territory in May than any month since Nov 2024. FT: They strike 30–40 km deep, bypass jamming, and sever supply routes before infantry moves in. 1/
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Seems like my reverse engineering of the Fordow strike over the weekend is correct, and damage reports today suggest limited damage. Suspect the reason for the limited damage is the one I gave; Iranian dolomite is stronger than the test concrete, as per O&G drilling core data.
GBU-57 Massive Ordinance Penetrator. Let’s reverse engineer the penetration depth of the GBU57 on the back of a fag packet. 🤓 . If the total package mass is 12,400kg then let’s assume that includes the 2,400kg of explosives, 1,200 kg of structural members and 500kg of hardened
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This post explains that if you do some fag packet sums on the GBU-57 spec, then the Iranian mountain rock might have been too strong for the penetrator to achieve its desired penetration depth. Hopefully I’m proven wrong, but… could be challenging times ahead.
GBU-57 Massive Ordinance Penetrator. Let’s reverse engineer the penetration depth of the GBU57 on the back of a fag packet. 🤓 . If the total package mass is 12,400kg then let’s assume that includes the 2,400kg of explosives, 1,200 kg of structural members and 500kg of hardened
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On the Fordow strike. If the attack was successful and the GBU-57 ordinance exploded deep enough to force a pressure wave (explosion) inside the bunker, would we not expect to see material blasted from the tunnel entry?. Any blast doors would be designed to resist external
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