Stephen Ferguson
The Carbon Cost of Everything

Embedded Emissions: The Carbon Cost of EveryTHING.

April 13, 2022

Manufacturing anything involves taking random combinations of atoms (usually manifested as a raw material) and processing them into a useful product. This takes huge amounts of energy, and causes lots of emissions.

By Stephen Ferguson
7 MIN READ
Artificial Intelligence

Seven Ways in Which Artificial Intelligence Will Change Engineering Forever 

February 14, 2022

In this blog, I want to explore how engineers are beginning to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to amplify an individual engineer’s knowledge, increase the amount of learning provided through simulation and test, and how that accumulated knowledge can be transferred between projects.

By Stephen Ferguson
6 MIN READ
Carbon cost of a burger

Engineering the low-carbon, cruelty-free, lab-grown hamburger of the future

February 4, 2022

87% of the greenhouse gas emissions from a burger come from the beef. Find out how simulation is helping to design the cruelty-free, low-carbon, lab-grown burger of the future.

By Stephen Ferguson
8 MIN READ
keeping the lights on in a climate emergency

Keeping the lights on in a Climate Emergency

December 1, 2021

In the midst of climate emergency 63% of our electricity still comes from burning carbon dioxide belching fossil fuels, that kill millions of people every year. We investigate how simulation is helping to deliver a low-carbon future.

By Stephen Ferguson
12 MIN READ

Engineers caused the Climate Emergency. Only engineering simulation can save us from it.

November 3, 2021

Since the industrial revolution human civilisation has become increasingly dependent on the combustion of large quantities of fossil fuels. Engineering a future without them is the biggest challenge our species has ever faced.

By Stephen Ferguson
6 MIN READ

Engineering Innovation 8: Improving on perfection, From ICE to Ice Cream using Simcenter

October 12, 2021

From ICE to ice creams, via stone age cave paintings, Engineering Innovation Issue 8 uncovers the hidden benefits of engineering simulation and test.

By Stephen Ferguson
3 MIN READ
Tokyo

Engineering Simulation in Sports

July 23, 2021

Tokyo, competitors will increasingly be supplementing hard work and training with engineering simulation…

By Stephen Ferguson
7 MIN READ
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ simulation of a sperm whale plummeting to its death

Towel Day: The Aerodynamics of Freefalling Sperm Whale

May 25, 2021

To celebrate Towel Day I recreated the final moments of the Magrathean Sperm Whale from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy as it plummets to its death using Simcenter STAR-CCM+

By Stephen Ferguson
5 MIN READ

35 Years Since Chernobyl: The Radioactive Elephant in the Room

April 26, 2021

It’s 35 years since the Chernobyl disaster. I visited the site of the accident, to answer the question “how safe is nuclear power?” and “how can the digital twin make it even safer?”

By Stephen Ferguson
9 MIN READ