How Thermals Constrain Robots, Chips, and Space Datacenters
Two general principles to help understand and defeat overheating
thermodynamics
Geothermal power
Forgotten Atlas - Heat exchangers
Heat Exchangers: Designing the titans that hold up our world.
Free Thermodynamics Textbook by Olivier Cleynen
Classical Thermodynamics and Economics – Yuxi on the Wired
How to think like a classical thermodynamic-economist, delivered with many illustrations and some sci-fi metaphors. Particular emphasis on what traditional pedagogy gets wrong. Prerequisites: multivariate calculus and mathematical maturity.
The essay contains: three laws of thermodynamics, entropy, Helmholtz and Gibbs free energy, nonextensive entropy, Caratheodory’s axiomatic thermodynamics, Vladimir Arnold’s contact-geometric thermodynamics, Paul Samuelson’s area-ratio thermodynamics, Le Chatelier’s principle, chemical equilibrium…
entropy
How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists
The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information.
The Most Famous Loop – alexdanco.com
Kevin Kwok had a great essay the other day on Figma, and how its runaway success is based on hundreds of successful loops baked into its product and business model: Why Figma Wins | Kevin Kwok It g…