Techno-economics
Industrial heat break-even
What electricity has to cost before an electric boiler beats a gas one in Texas, and why the spark gap decides it.
Projects
Energy
Optimization
Battery revenue simulator
A battery’s revenue barely grows past four hours of storage, and an 8,760-hour linear program shows why.
Climate
Life-cycle · interactive
The true climate cost
A carbon footprint is the end of an argument about what to count, and this model runs the argument in the open.
Wildlife
Allometry · interactive
Longevity quotient
How much longer an animal lives than its size says it should.
Bibliometrics · 9,113 birds
Endangered, and studied
A critically endangered bird has about 2.65 times the papers of a common one once family, size, range, description date and rated attractiveness are held fixed, and the beauty score this project was named for explains none of it.
Misc
Sonification · interactive
Skylines, played
A skyline and a spectrum analyser are the same picture, so twenty-seven real skylines are played as sound.
Geodesy · interactive
Where the ground goes
Plate interiors hold their shape to about half a millimetre a year, and that precision buys almost nothing about where they will be.