Lorenzo Venneri Blog

I finished translating Hazard and Hope in the Age of Technics, a booklet by Hans Sedlmayr first published in 1970.

Designing a reactor core barely half a meter wide sounds simple and quite reasonable for a startup until you start counting neutrons.

There's lots of high quality timelapse out there — one of the best is Morten Rustad (@morten.rustad).

I made a little webapp for fun navigation and exploration.

These are low-cost, not entirely empirical methods to help treat cancer.

Over the years I have often perturbed a design or model or strategy for sensitivity analysis and optimization.

Previously, Len Fisher addressed the issue of biscuits lost at tea 1.

The solar spectrum shows up at Earth looking pretty close to a black body of 5777 K.

Modern economies tend to organize themselves to produce larger volumes of lower-quality goods.

Maps are flat.

Inspired by the great Ciechanow blog of animated WebGL visualizations, I tried to take the same approach for explaining nuclear reactors.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 is like a Toyota Corolla – an order of magnitude cheaper than competitor's "high performance" rocket systems, the Ferraris, but achieving the same basic transport requirements with greater reliability and safety.

A common problem in image capture for various active illumination methods is ambient light.

A simple design for a wall lamp using a single sheet of aluminum.

A design for a SiC mug utilizing advanced additive manufacturing techniques.

Reduced Distortion Protective Eye-Ware This is part of the design thesis aiming for Physically derived functionality Conformity to human needs Reduced constraints from manufacturing and cost Traditional Eye-Ware Eyewear can be used to provide the user with

The general public and even most nuclear engineers do not understand how easy it is for nuclear fuel to fail.

As a side-project, I collect and maintain information on upcoming nuclear energy extraction systems.

I started my PhD at MIT in September of 2019.

Lots of people peddle health advice.