Dr Huw Rhys Jones | 💻⚛️🏴⚽️
@hrjones.bsky.social
Computer scientist and machine learning engineer. Proud to have been working in the nuclear industry for the past decade. Currently working in developing commercial fusion power.
Interested in science, politics, 3D printing
https://youtube.com/@caistec
Interested in science, politics, 3D printing
https://youtube.com/@caistec
Great night at the football in Swansea. Entertaining match and crowd full of energy, despite a 4 - 1 hammering by Italy. Excited to see the Wales team at the Euros this summer.
June 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Great night at the football in Swansea. Entertaining match and crowd full of energy, despite a 4 - 1 hammering by Italy. Excited to see the Wales team at the Euros this summer.
“What sort of person do you want to be?”
June 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“What sort of person do you want to be?”
I also designed and printed this personalised food bowl for my sister’s dog. I am going to coat it in food-safe resign.
April 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I also designed and printed this personalised food bowl for my sister’s dog. I am going to coat it in food-safe resign.
I hecking love having a 3D printer to make things like this. Also hecking love the geniuses that can design things like this. It’s a case with a retractable and lockable cover. Here’s the model btw makerworld.com/models/1325572
April 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I hecking love having a 3D printer to make things like this. Also hecking love the geniuses that can design things like this. It’s a case with a retractable and lockable cover. Here’s the model btw makerworld.com/models/1325572
I thought this just might be a conspiracy theory among my pro nuclear colleagues, but no: it looks like an over dependence on renewables really did play a Major contributing factor to the grid destabilisation in Spain and Portugal recently.
April 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I thought this just might be a conspiracy theory among my pro nuclear colleagues, but no: it looks like an over dependence on renewables really did play a Major contributing factor to the grid destabilisation in Spain and Portugal recently.
Waiting for my new 3D printer to arrive like:
April 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Waiting for my new 3D printer to arrive like:
Me, annoyed that my computer game character can’t sprint for more than a three second burst
April 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Me, annoyed that my computer game character can’t sprint for more than a three second burst
Me whenever I go on electricitymaps.com to see which country is leading the way in transitioning to a low-carbon economy
April 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Me whenever I go on electricitymaps.com to see which country is leading the way in transitioning to a low-carbon economy
I’ve been using some ray tracing software at work to automate the modelling of a microwave transmission system. Some of the images it produces are spectacular, like some abstract work of art.
January 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I’ve been using some ray tracing software at work to automate the modelling of a microwave transmission system. Some of the images it produces are spectacular, like some abstract work of art.
Structure #1 in my 30 Brutalist structures in 2025: Tŷ Pont Haearn in Cardiff, Wales. Built in 2005 so a bit late to strictly be part of the Brutalist architectural movement. However, it uses many construction methods commonly used in the architectural style. Now a student accommodation building.
January 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Structure #1 in my 30 Brutalist structures in 2025: Tŷ Pont Haearn in Cardiff, Wales. Built in 2005 so a bit late to strictly be part of the Brutalist architectural movement. However, it uses many construction methods commonly used in the architectural style. Now a student accommodation building.
My New Year’s resolution is to visit 30 brutalist structures. Any care to recommend any I should stick on my list. I don’t know where I’m visiting this year (if anywhere) so probably most of them will be in the UK or maybe Europe.
January 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
My New Year’s resolution is to visit 30 brutalist structures. Any care to recommend any I should stick on my list. I don’t know where I’m visiting this year (if anywhere) so probably most of them will be in the UK or maybe Europe.
Could this be the strangest Python method ever written? Or do all Welsh software developers write this at least once in their lives?
December 28, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Could this be the strangest Python method ever written? Or do all Welsh software developers write this at least once in their lives?
Comments like this inspire and motivate me to make more YouTube videos. It’s incredibly labour intensive, but so rewarding (unfortunately not financially, yet).
December 21, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Comments like this inspire and motivate me to make more YouTube videos. It’s incredibly labour intensive, but so rewarding (unfortunately not financially, yet).
They actually profited nearer to $36.85 billion
December 20, 2024 at 8:05 PM
They actually profited nearer to $36.85 billion
Well don’t take my word for it. Our grid demand never really falls below about 25 and there’s regularly multiple days of little to no renewable energy generation. So we’d need at least 1.2TWh of storage. Trying to figure out how you’d do the math on the LCOE of that.
www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk
www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Well don’t take my word for it. Our grid demand never really falls below about 25 and there’s regularly multiple days of little to no renewable energy generation. So we’d need at least 1.2TWh of storage. Trying to figure out how you’d do the math on the LCOE of that.
www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk
www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk
That’s a very bold claim that it *very* closely tracks solar power availability. Don’t know what locality you’re in but here in the UK we get peak demand during the winter months around 6PM. Demand drops about 25% between peak and night low.
December 19, 2024 at 8:14 AM
That’s a very bold claim that it *very* closely tracks solar power availability. Don’t know what locality you’re in but here in the UK we get peak demand during the winter months around 6PM. Demand drops about 25% between peak and night low.
Tell me if there’s something blatantly obvious I’m missing here but PV+storage seems to mean PV+ some storage i.e. not equivalent to around the clock supply. The cost of storage alone seems to be in the hundreds of $/MWh. So I don’t think we’re comparing like for like anyway.
December 19, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Tell me if there’s something blatantly obvious I’m missing here but PV+storage seems to mean PV+ some storage i.e. not equivalent to around the clock supply. The cost of storage alone seems to be in the hundreds of $/MWh. So I don’t think we’re comparing like for like anyway.
Also, not sure if I’ve missed something from my brief scan of the document, but it seems that it’s reporting the cost of storage as in the hundreds of $/MWh alone, for just the storage. It’s not very clear to me what’s exactly being reported for “solar+storage”.
December 19, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Also, not sure if I’ve missed something from my brief scan of the document, but it seems that it’s reporting the cost of storage as in the hundreds of $/MWh alone, for just the storage. It’s not very clear to me what’s exactly being reported for “solar+storage”.
Just reading through the Lazard report and I don’t think you can argue that solar+storage is “between half and a third of the cost of nuclear” based on the data.
December 19, 2024 at 6:49 AM
Just reading through the Lazard report and I don’t think you can argue that solar+storage is “between half and a third of the cost of nuclear” based on the data.
You see players across the spectrum in such ecstasy after netting one. The best I’m likely to hope for is bagging a goal in a friendly competitive game between workmates or friends. Nevertheless, if it’s anything what it looks like in the games I’ve seen, it’s someone I don’t want to miss in life.
December 13, 2024 at 3:40 AM
You see players across the spectrum in such ecstasy after netting one. The best I’m likely to hope for is bagging a goal in a friendly competitive game between workmates or friends. Nevertheless, if it’s anything what it looks like in the games I’ve seen, it’s someone I don’t want to miss in life.
I’ve decided on a goal for myself to achieve in the next five years. And that goal is: to score a goal in a football game. I’m obviously never going to be a professional players, I’ll probably never be more than a mediocre amateur. But just once I’d like to hit that ball in the back of a net.
December 13, 2024 at 3:40 AM
I’ve decided on a goal for myself to achieve in the next five years. And that goal is: to score a goal in a football game. I’m obviously never going to be a professional players, I’ll probably never be more than a mediocre amateur. But just once I’d like to hit that ball in the back of a net.
Don’t get me wrong, I truly love going to the football. Some of the best nights of my life have been at Cardiff City or Morfa stadium in Swansea. But I loathe the corporatism, especially the capture by predatory betting companies who feed on addiction and financial misery of their customers.
December 13, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Don’t get me wrong, I truly love going to the football. Some of the best nights of my life have been at Cardiff City or Morfa stadium in Swansea. But I loathe the corporatism, especially the capture by predatory betting companies who feed on addiction and financial misery of their customers.
Also the atmosphere at cricket matches I’ve found far more relaxed and inviting, with an almost carnival atmosphere. You can sit with a beer, watching the game, it’s far more family friendly and there are usually great food options.
December 13, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Also the atmosphere at cricket matches I’ve found far more relaxed and inviting, with an almost carnival atmosphere. You can sit with a beer, watching the game, it’s far more family friendly and there are usually great food options.
Team sponsors in football: evil, predatory betting companies, the bastards who crashed the economy in 2008 and airlines which are fronts for Middle Eastern autocrats
Team sponsors in cricket: crisps, biscuits, popcorn, nuts.
This is a huge advantage of the latter of the former imo
Team sponsors in cricket: crisps, biscuits, popcorn, nuts.
This is a huge advantage of the latter of the former imo
December 13, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Team sponsors in football: evil, predatory betting companies, the bastards who crashed the economy in 2008 and airlines which are fronts for Middle Eastern autocrats
Team sponsors in cricket: crisps, biscuits, popcorn, nuts.
This is a huge advantage of the latter of the former imo
Team sponsors in cricket: crisps, biscuits, popcorn, nuts.
This is a huge advantage of the latter of the former imo
2. When most people think of nuclear, almost always people think of danger. This is ironic because in an objective sense it’s actually among the safest energy source. This is even when you factor in major accidents like Chernobyl. Nuclear has generated a massive amount of energy in the last 7…
December 13, 2024 at 1:12 AM
2. When most people think of nuclear, almost always people think of danger. This is ironic because in an objective sense it’s actually among the safest energy source. This is even when you factor in major accidents like Chernobyl. Nuclear has generated a massive amount of energy in the last 7…