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Dr Thomas Moore

@drthomasmoore.bsky.social
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Proud Husband. Doting Father. Modelling & Developing Clean Energy Technologies @ Queensland University of Technology

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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Sorry to hear that! Modern trick takers can be very unintuitive, even if you're familiar with 500, etc. Have you tried any of the classic 'gateway games' like Carcassonne, Catan, Azul, etc.?
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It feels like every day there's a new Anthropic blog post which is tanking a different section of the stock market...
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
It depends on the games and the people! What games have you been bouncing off?
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Australians are quietly patriotic, and why wouldn't you be? - Compulsory preferential voting. - Watching the cricket on free to air TV. - A quality, ad-free ABC. Today we can add: - A social media ban on under-16s. Sensible, evidence-driven policy in the face of megalithic corporate interests.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Read our CCS review in ACS Chemical Reviews to learn: - Why modern packings have pressure drop 10x lower than Sherwood predicted. - Why organic liquids have slow kinetics at high temperature - When agitation increases flux in a chemical solvent. And much more! 🧪🔌💡 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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The Chemistry and Thermodynamics of Point Source CO2 Capture by Liquid Chemical Absorption and Its Impact on Process Performance
Point source carbon capture is a technology that has been developed to separate carbon dioxide (CO2) from gas mixtures prior to emission to the atmosphere. It is considered a crucial technology to man...
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I continue to vacillate on GenAI in teaching. This is ChatGPT on the isomorphism between the Ising and Gas Lattice models. Its explanation is the worst of both worlds: it sounds authoritative & plausible, yet is nonsensical. (We do have H[n] = H[1-n]). I worry about undergrads relying on this.
Explanation of the Ising Model
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Been very happy to discover standardebooks.org A well-formatted ebook is so much more enjoyable to read. I've already read some Hemingway and the (hilarious) Jeeves Stories of P. G. Wodehouse; I now have some Agatha Christie lined up on my old kobo (plus more Wodehouse...). 📚💙
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Standard Ebooks
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Quick Guide to STEM Mastery: 1. Learn math 2. Learn everything else 🧪 🧮
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
@davidbryan2100.bsky.social Because 2% of global CO2 emissions come from H2 production, most of which is in fertilizer & chemicals production. It's hard to electrify NH3 production without a source of H2! I agree that wider use of H2 (transport, etc.) is speculative at best and predatory at worst.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
100% correct. But we use a lot of grey and black H2 for fertilisers & chemicals production: replacing *existing* use with blue/green H2 is more than enough to justify building out a huge new green industry.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
#greensky #energysky 🧪 🔌💡
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Is blue hydrogen as bad as grey hydrogen, or twice as clean as green hydrogen? Reasonable assumptions can lead to either result... www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-gr...
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How Green IS Blue Hydrogen?
or Why Green Tech Evaluation is Really, Really Difficult Howarth and Jacobsen's How Green is Blue Hydrogen is one of my favourite articles to come out in the last five years. Not because I agree with ...
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Report from 2025's 3rd year "Entropy and Temperature" lecture: gosh this is difficult to teach. One day I'll master the 2h rigorous introduction to entropy... Next year we might experiment with some of the heat engine-based derivations (God forbid). Kardar's approach is tempting: elegant & brief.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I spent some time this morning in Eisberg's Quantum Physics. It's stunning. There's a lot of hype about GenAI for learning. I buy it in domains where notation & facts are key (lean LaTeX; learn woodworking). But in science, nothing can replace a beautiful, well thought through textbook.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Certainly the low hanging fruit!
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
'We need them to be low' and 'there are realistic policy levers & technologies to make them low' are not always the same thing :)
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Yes... provided your upstream methane emissions are low!
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I spent the afternoon looking through CVs for a PhD program. All over the world, there are talented young engineers doing beautiful & subtle work. Yet so many of these bright minds have struggled to find work & stability in their home countries. It's heart breaking. We need to do better by them.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
As a chemical engineer who has spent more time with the Ergun Equation than the Darcy-Weisbach, I have no dog in this fight.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It's amazing how many equations which were historically derived via fancy math can, in hindsight, follow straight from dimensional analysis. To name a few, - Stokes equation - Darcy equation - Richardson-Zaki Any others?
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Should be a fun weekend.
Massive cyclone, my house.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This is the first I've heard of this; my first reaction is 32 km/h is very, very slow...
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#EnergySky #GreenSky #Science
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We can make this happen today. Change is within reach. But it requires political talent, political will, persuasion, and a clear-eyed understanding that, with the right economic incentives, dominoes will fall fast. And don't forget to emphasise - a world without oil is a far, far better one. 6/6
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Imagine what we could do, and how quickly we could do it, if sensible financial incentives - a price on carbon, a trading scheme with teeth - were in place *today*. Engineers around the world would jump at the chance to show the costings finally make sense, we need to start now, no time to waste. 5/
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The same story holds in solar, in wind, in batteries. It's visionary engineers who want to make a difference, pushing against the tide to bring technologies to reality. 4/
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Engineers who understand the science, and hate the economic situation we find ourselves in, where there are no incentives for cleaning up processes. Engineers who pushed against shareholders worried about NPV and IRR. Engineers who pushed against politicians worried about the next election cycle. 3/
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Think about it. These are multi-billion dollar chemical processes running for no reason whatsoever beyond removing CO2. How did those projects come about? One word: engineers. Engineers who believed in a cleaner industry pushing hard internally for trials, demonstrations, and projects. 2/
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I take encouragement from the fact we have made so much progress in clean tech *in spite* of constant political pushback and a lack of sensible economic incentives. 35% of CCS projects are *not* run for the purpose of enhanced oil recovery, or any other purpose beyond preventing CO2 emissions. 1/
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
As we've seen around the world, if you don't label it a tax, someone else will label it for you!
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Among energy experts, "We DESPERATELY need a carbon tax" is uttered in private more and in public less than any other phrase. How did carbon taxation become toxic? Be creative. Link it to a UBI if you must. Because like it or not, market forces are our only way out of this mess. #EnergySky #GreenSky
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Was talking with a senior colleague the other day about the multi-month process of submitting a manuscript before the internet. Typing a document, hand drawing figures, mailing the editors, mail from the reviewers. No wonder old papers show so much more love and care. #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
When should academics working on green technologies travel for international conferences? Asking for a friend. #AcademiaSky #GreenSky #EnergySky
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
There's a chance AI makes much engineering work redundant in the near future. But if it doesn't, it's certainly made it *much* harder to train engineers with assignments asking them to solve intermediate, stepping-stone problems. OpenAI's free O3-mini is scary-good at problems at that level.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Computers & Chemical Engineering has to be the most under-rated journal in terms of attention & respect received vs quality of articles published. There is no junk, no faff, and no care for 'hype': just hardcore math & engineering on real & hard problems. #Science #EnergySky #ChemSky
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
And the Paris Peace conference!
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Rowan Williams' 'A Century of Poetry' has to be one of the best books I've read in years. Each poem is like a miniature puzzle expertly pulled apart by the former Archbishop. It's encouraging to see a book of such quality published today. #BookSky
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
One day at a time, one sentence at a time - you got this!
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Update: there's still some strange fragility. If I tweak the problem slightly, the smooth reasoning stalls out, and we get nonsensical answers. I have not idea what o3 is doing here.
tweaked question.tweaked answer
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Just threw my favourite reactor engineering problem at ChatGPT's new (free) o3-mini model and it nailed it. I came up with this problem years ago. It doesn't feel solvable at first: you need a good instinct for 1st-order reactions, and I haven't seen something similar in any textbooks. Impressive.
Reactor EngineeringAnswer
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
How did academics spend their time before personal computers were around? I forgot my laptop this morning; after the initial paralysis, I read a paper, got some writing done and responded to an urgent email on my phone. I like this pace. I might 'forget' my laptop again soon... #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Chaotic Evil confirmed.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
One of the best resources for applying learnings from the education research literature in the classroom also happens to be a post on teaching board games at boardgamegeek.com: boardgamegeek.com/thread/34301... #edusky #boardgames
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Teaching Games: A Professional Educator's Perspective | BGG
There have been a few forums popping up recently about learning in board games. As both a board gaming enthusiast and a teacher with 15 years of experience, I wanted to share some of the principles th...
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Pet Peeve: Capital Pi is a terrible letter to use for a dimensionless group, as it makes writing products of groups confusing. My students learn the Buckingham Phi Theorem.
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Math Humour
David Williams, Probability with Martingales
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Very happy to share our latest perspective in Nature Chemical Engineering, 'Accelerating climate technologies through the science of scale-up.' We discuss tools academics and R&D engineers can use to accelerate the scaling of new technologies. Read it here! rdcu.be/d30IM @nature.com 🧪⚛️ 🧮 🔌💡
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Accelerating climate technologies through the science of scale-up
Nature Chemical Engineering - This Perspective argues that early assessments of technology-market fit, as well as how the physics governing system performance evolves with scale, can de-risk...
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Kazuo Ishiguro's novels are perfect. 💙📚 Go - go read them all. Whatever you do, don't read a review; they spoil the effect entirely. You can trust me. Start with 'The Remains of the Day'. That is all.
The Remains of the Day
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
New rule: Peer review requests shall not be sent from 20 Dec - 2 Jan. 🧪
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
*demeaning hardworking :)
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Dr Thomas Moore @drthomasmoore.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
They'd love to see H2 implemented as a 'transition fuel' in domestic heating, transportation, power storage, etc., with the promise that green H2 or biomass gasification is only a few years away. It always will be. They did this with LNG in the Obama era. Too many people keep taking the bait.
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