Tim Green 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💨☀️⚡️💡💻
@otherprofgreen.bsky.social
Professor of Electrical Power Engineering at Imperial College researching control of zero-carbon grids.
Known to get distracted by old trains and industrial heritage.
Drivel that follows comprises personal views.
He/Him
orcid.org/0000-0003-3893-2439
Known to get distracted by old trains and industrial heritage.
Drivel that follows comprises personal views.
He/Him
orcid.org/0000-0003-3893-2439
It sounds a bit like a Philip Larkin poem. Perhaps …
They fuck you up, your big reactors;
They might not mean to but they do;
They fill you with the faults they had;
And some extra for SMR.
They fuck you up, your big reactors;
They might not mean to but they do;
They fill you with the faults they had;
And some extra for SMR.
December 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It sounds a bit like a Philip Larkin poem. Perhaps …
They fuck you up, your big reactors;
They might not mean to but they do;
They fill you with the faults they had;
And some extra for SMR.
They fuck you up, your big reactors;
They might not mean to but they do;
They fill you with the faults they had;
And some extra for SMR.
The more I see of this, the more I think small modular reactors will have all the problems of large bespoke reactors.
December 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The more I see of this, the more I think small modular reactors will have all the problems of large bespoke reactors.
Years ago ours would say "a minimum of 40 hours a week" and now say just "35 hours a week".
December 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Years ago ours would say "a minimum of 40 hours a week" and now say just "35 hours a week".
That's inhuman!
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
That's inhuman!
But it also undermines science. Scientific conferences in the US are a big deal. Already, young researchers are reluctant to travel. I’ll need to renew my ESTA in February if I want to attend and I don’t want have to supply all of my family’s emails and phones, and all by social media.
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
But it also undermines science. Scientific conferences in the US are a big deal. Already, young researchers are reluctant to travel. I’ll need to renew my ESTA in February if I want to attend and I don’t want have to supply all of my family’s emails and phones, and all by social media.