Object Zero

Doer of the difficult. Champion for talent. Inventor of things. Builder of Machines. North Sea O&G, Nuclear Power, Subsea, Heavy Manufacturing.

[Object Zero @Object_Zero_]

@BrewNeuron Thanks, that’s very kind.

I think someone could improve on Civilisation’s Thermodynamic Corridor. It’s a valuable thing for us to understand.

[Object Zero @Object_Zero_]

Mask Off Moment

This is an anonymous account I use to post a bunch of deep tech content on X covering heavy industry, light industry, technology trends, industrial bottlenecks, weird explainers and esoteric insights. iykyk.

A lot of very talented people (many of whom run amazing companies) DM me saying please keep posting “this is the best content on X”. I get DMs from VCs asking about companies, and DMs from LPs asking about industrial and economic theories. This is all very flattering, and whilst I sometimes post a bit sporadically I do try and make the effort to tap out a new post most days.

The quality of people who follow @object_zero_ is frankly phenomenal, it’s a real privilege to have this channel in my pocket. 40k followers including world leaders, centi-billionaires, serial inventors and entrepreneurs, world renowned scientists, and engineers. I would say it’s a mix, but the reality is that it’s not a mix at all, it’s an extremely high mean and median.

I have posted about shipbuilding, nuclear power, the Kroll process, silicon carbide, laser interferometry, heavy steel forging, machine learning, design engineering, CFD, manufacturing methods, power transmission and HVDC. I post about energy and commodities and industry and global macroeconomics. I post about mines and prospecting, minerals on the sea bed and drilling and producing hydrocarbon basins.

Don’t worry… I’m not leaving. I’m not ill and I’m not asking for anything.

A quick apology… I would post here more often, except I don’t have the time. I am able to post with a bit more breadth and depth because I am genuinely engaged in these things. I don’t want to be presumptive, but I think the people who have reached out to talk to me about their work would attest to this.

I simplify a lot of the posts so I don’t collapse the audience, but if you reach out in the comments or DM you can get much sharper commentary.

So what is this post?

Well, it’s time that I start talking about what I am actually doing irl, who I am, what I am engaged in. Some people on X already know some loose details, some people have met me as Object Zero.

But irl, I work about 5,000 hours a year and have done so for 20 years, I believe hard work puts you in a privileged place. It changes you.

Over the years I’ve invented and developed new industrial technologies, I’ve built big things, I’ve executed major capital projects. I feel I understand what the world needs in the 2030s and where we are falling short.

If you believe you are capable of such things, then you have an obligation to society to go and do them.

I am confident I know what it’s possible to do, and what it takes to get it done.

I intend to solve our energy infrastructure, generation and transmission and the big BTM loads that are emerging.

I’ve already hired the best people in the world for this, people who have architected $6bn assets, people who have commanded $40bn fleets. I’ve hired the best research faculty from the best university.

This isn’t a game.

We’ve already built and tested the first prototypes, we are already completing the permission processes, the licences and the permits. All the elements already exist, it just needs 21st Century system integration.

Because technology has changed, the past is already obsolete, the genie is out of the bottle, the 21st century is getting built on a Western tech stack and/or an Eastern tech stack. There is no in between, there is no middle ground. Both sides have strengths and weaknesses, but if we want freedom we’re going to have to earn it again.

We are going to build the biggest products (by mass) that have ever been manufactured, we are going to build a lot of them.

They’re going to change the world, and we’re going to get more of this…

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@XemplifyX Meanwhile back in the real world…

Today there are more nuclear reactors at sea, than on land.

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@RokoMijic @Aging_Scientist It that case it hasn’t exceeded humans in all domains.

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@DirkBruere That’s as much a function of jurisdiction as endeavour.

And competent oversight is value additive, but yes there are lots of cases where well meaning oversight slips into gross incompetence.

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@IcarusOfA It’s 8am - 2:30am with a 3 hr break in the evening, then 7pm - 3am at the weekend.

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We’re going to displace trillions of tonnes of CO2 emissions and save countless rivers from interference.

We’re going to unlock the development of dozens of countries to the point they can invoke clean air acts and contemporary environmental regulations without handicapping themselves economically.

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@iBenGray Well I will be operating at the limits of our planet’s geographical features, and said features do not exit in China. So boo hoo.

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@Vale53199081 This is true, but I understand those specific bottlenecks as well as anyone.

There are specific supply chains islands that we’re going to integrate.

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@TokarzAnthonyJ Yes, I was at the frontier of this industry anyway and people were asking, if not me then who?

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@CaptainCrunq Yep.

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@FiduciaThomas 🫣 Too big to hide.

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@bayeslord I’ve no choice but to do it.

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@OregonTerritory @DeltaClimbs Take this idea and then ramp it up the absolute limits of scale that we can build on planet Earth.

Now walk it to the absolute edge of planetary geography. The zenith of scale.

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@JosephSomsel Exactly how it should be!

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@AndreBuckingham It’s true.

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@CSPopoff Lots of work ahead.

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@Gavin_K_Dove @DeltaClimbs The main event is still ahead, there’s a tonne of stuff to do. I’m genuinely fortunate in that I just love it.

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@GanleyMicheal @marvinliao Seeing is believing, there’s a huge amount of work to do, but once you see it it’s obvious that we should get it done.

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@BradyRMayes @mattparlmer I absolutely agree, but a lot of things are racing towards SiC so it’s going to get pulled forward quite dramatically.

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@LauraFlowD We have to do the big things.