2025’s Best Tech Story: New Glenn
It’s been a very exciting year for innovation. However, one story stood out big-time: Blue Origin’s successful launch and landing of their 7×2 New Glenn rocket. New Origin’s achievement heralds…
2024’s Best Tech Story: Direct Cycle Gasoline
My favourite technology story of 2024 evokes images from the late twenty-naughties, when scientists were grumbling about the supposed limitations of renewable hydrocarbons. Way back then, physicist Klaus Lackner had…
Does a Tunnel Make Sense for the Remutaka Highway?
Working on a proposal to link Wellington and the Wairarapa with a new 110 km/hr highway, I’ve been hearing about punching a tunnel through the Remutaka Range. Not a good…
Thermal Recycling Boosts Thermodynamic Swings
When a greenie says a project or process is “So-o energy-intensive,” we are expected to give up and buy a bicycle. Or a train ticket. That’s not necessary. Chemical engineers…
ParAble-Whakatauki Packs a Shipload of Fun into a Small Package
A Wellington-based organisation for disabled sailors is getting ready to put a new sailboat into volume production. Sailability Wellington, ably led by Don Manning, has been working on the new…
Vigorous New ICE to Challenge Piston Engines
There are plenty of good reasons why liquid-fuelled piston engines dominate land and sea transportation. They are better than older technologies. And usually, when some alternative technology tries to challenge…
Guilt-Free Gasoline
If you’ve ever been cancelled for liking your car, you know what green guilt-tripping feels like. I hope, after you’ve read this post, that you will no longer feel guilty…
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Climate Engineering 101. Part 4: Policy Requirements
Consumers want climate change to go away. We have very good reasons to expect that sensible climate engineering will make that happen. We have an international agreement telling us exactly…
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Climate Engineering 101. Part 3: Tools
Climate engineers already have a range of tools which are fully capable of satisfying consumer demand for climate stability. We should not assume that all potential climate engineering tools have…
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Climate Engineering 101. Part 2: Outcomes
People want climate change to go away. On news websites, TV and radio news, social media, and everywhere people get information, it is impossible to avoid stories about human-made climate…