Polaris reached 150 million °C and the first private D-T fusion. Now Orion is breaking ground in Malaga, and Microsoft’s 2028 PPA is on the clock.
The U.S. refining configuration is built for gasoline. The market wants distillate. Here is what a 10,000-bpd modular, distillate-first refinery looks like — and why the build window is open.
The Micro-Refinery Renaissance: Why Distillate-First Will Win the 2030s Energy Mix Read More »
Most of the conversation about AI in the energy sector right now is happening at the wrong altitude. The press wants to talk about demand forecasting and grid optimization. The industry wants to talk about chatbots in the control room. The actual leverage is somewhere else entirely: it is in the digital substrate underneath a
The AI-Native Refinery: Why Day One Is the Cheapest It Will Ever Be Read More »
DOE’s $293M Genesis Mission funds AI for science. Can a one-person engineering company from Salt Lake City compete against Google, Microsoft, and J.P. Morgan-backed startups? Here’s the case.
NORMEX Standards AI cuts RAGAGEP gap analysis from 3-4 weeks to 3-5 days. 81% faster. Pilot data from ASME B31.3 assessment.
3–4 Weeks for One Gap Analysis? NORMEX Standards AI Does It in 3–5 Days Read More »
After 7 years waiting for someone to build the right engineering software, I started building it myself. NORMEX and NEXUS CAD exist because the gap between what engineers need and what the market offers is enormous.
Why I Stopped Waiting for the Right Engineering Software and Started Building It Read More »
The CAD market is $25.27B in 2026, with Autodesk, Dassault, and Siemens controlling 65%. Here’s why domain-specific, browser-based CAD is the gap worth filling.
$25 Billion CAD Market, and 65% Is Controlled by Three Companies — There’s Room Read More »
20 days until the DOE Genesis Mission Phase I deadline. $293M in funding, 467 competing organizations including Google, Microsoft, and J.P. Morgan-backed startups. Here’s what one solo founder has learned.
EPA’s proposed STAA rollback creates a compliance dilemma for every refinery with a PHA due in 2026. Four RMP rules in eight years. Here’s how to build flexible compliance infrastructure for regulatory volatility.
