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Talk: How much cement can we do without?

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A short talk as a "new academic" at the CSCT Winter Showcase 2020, covering my research on reducing cement demand and its carbon implications.

Wind turbine aerodynamic loads in Python with "bemused"

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The aerodynamic loads on a wind turbine rotor are often calculated using Blade Element–Momentum theory (BEM). As part of my PhD thesis I implemented the BEM calculations in Python, and I've now tidied this up as an open-source Python package `bemused` that I'll introduce here.

Moving beyond averages: uncertainty and variability analysis in industrial ecology

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Uncertainty and variability are inevitable in studying the environmental impacts of society's use of resources. This was the subject of a Special Session I co-chaired at the ISIE conference in Chicago in June 2017. This post summarises the session and collects the results of the discussion with session participants.