{"id":199,"date":"2025-01-01T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulhansel.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2025-01-02T01:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T01:26:59","slug":"are-good-things-still-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulhansel.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Are good things still happening?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some excitement, past and future<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From UNSW, new research:<\/a><\/strong> quantifying the urban heat island effect in cities like Sydney and Kolkata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community Earth System Model 3<\/a>:<\/strong> Incoming update to the CESM<\/a> series of open-source planetary physics simulators, targeted for this summer. Potentially featuring better clouds<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upcoming NASA science missions<\/strong><\/a>: Including Firefly’s<\/a> Blue Ghost Mission 1<\/a> landing 8 experiments<\/a> on the Moon, NASA’s twin EscaPADE orbiters<\/a> investigating solar wind & atmospheric plasma dynamics at Mars (via New Glenn<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission<\/a><\/strong>: 10 years on orbit as of Pi Day 2025!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LumenPNP<\/strong><\/a> (source<\/a>): An open-source pick-and-place for mid-scale manufacturing, made in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valar<\/a>: <\/strong>Using a new fission reactor generator, capture atmospheric carbon dioxide, split water, synthesize storable hydrocarbon fuels, run datacenters. To be determined: are the outputs cost effective? where does the waste heat go? where do they plan to source the water?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teleo<\/a><\/strong>: Supervised autonomy (including remote operation) for heavy equipment. Could enable huge production gains in infrastructure, construction, mining. (Disclosure: I worked for Teleo from 2021-2024).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exo<\/strong><\/a> (source<\/a>): Enroll various calculators into a matrix multiplication club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiny Tapeout:<\/strong><\/a> Learn Verilog<\/a> and design a silicon ASIC<\/a> (application-specific integrated circuit) for the cost of an FPGA<\/a> (field programmable gate array) prototyping board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SiliWiz<\/strong><\/a> (source<\/a>): Learn how patterns of different elements in a silicon chip work together to make the building blocks of logic machines and energy converters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Merge<\/strong><\/a>: The Ethereum network used to burn 21 TWh of energy per year, but in 2022 they fixed the issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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