Consultant/educator. All problems have solutions. Everything is connected to everything else. Book: 'Technology & Engineering Strategies' (Routledge, 2025).
UK, North West England
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A guide to the development of technology and engineering strategies across all business and industrial sectors.
Unlock the secrets to corporate success.
Available now from major booksellers. Use DM to discuss the book's contents.
#INCOSE #SystemsEngineering @incose_org @incoseuk @incosewma @incosepres
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Consumers are paying the price for an electricity grid that can't yet handle the volume of clean and renewable energy coming online.
Our new report highlights most of the UK's planned £70bn grid upgrades for 2030 are still in the early stages: nao.org.uk/reports/upgrading…
ALT Portrait of Gareth Davies, Head of the NAO, with a quote on the importance of grid upgrades for economic growth and consumer bills.
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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Victorian Internet', by Tom Standage (Bloomsbury, 2014).
On my Substack here:
bit.ly/TheVictorianInternet
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Here's a great opportunity to reflect on how things have evolved in the business world since 2006.
Just think about it. Twenty tumultuous years.
Programme linked in the reply, below.
#thebottomline @evanhd @bbcnickholland
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar retweeted
HS2 is being reset by @transportgovuk and @HS2ltd, but significant work remains before they can put the programme on a stronger footing.
Read our latest report on HS2: nao.org.uk/reports/high-spee…
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A reminder that it's wise to invest in tunnels because they constitute a type of fixed, resilient infrastructure, enabling a lengthy return on investment (ROI).
This partly explains the appeal of urban underground rail networks, which the UK refuses to construct in most of its major cities.
Norway greenlights world’s first full-scale ship tunnel eandt.theiet.org/2026/06/18/…
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar retweeted
📢 @ai_cam_mission's Local Gov #AI Accelerator pairs Cambridge researchers with local #councils to develop AI solutions that deliver tangible public value, from automating housing data collection to detecting fly-tipping using cameras on refuse vehicles
eng.cam.ac.uk/news/universit…
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Power and Progress' by Acemoglu and Johnson (2023).
Review on Substack. Link in 'reply' post below.
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Link to Substack review:
pjmoar.substack.com/p/book-r…
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Ouch!
The government wrote off close to £7bn in 2024–25 in an egregious example of poor value for money.
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have published a new report 📄
Read more 👇
committees.parliament.uk/com…
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One practical effect of price controls in Scotland will be shoppers travelling across the border from England to fill their cars/vans with inexpensive groceries.
If those products are being sold with near-zero profit margins, there is no incentive for the border-adjacent retailers to continually stock-up in order to satisfy English buyers. The shelves will be empty for local Scots.
The political solution will be a requirement to show proof of residency before buying a loaf of bread.
@bbcnickrobinson #r4today @BBCNews
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar retweeted
My latest @NAOorguk report looks at DfT's support for innovation.
While the work is focused on transport, there are several areas of learning that other government departments will find useful, particularly relating to managing high-risk innovation activity.
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Innovation is seen by @transportgovuk as key to tackling some of the challenges facing the transport sector today.
How can it unlock economic, environmental and consumer benefits by strengthening support for new science and technology in transport?
➡️ nao.org.uk/reports/innovatio…
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar retweeted
Congratulations to Vaire Computing Senior Scientist Dr Frank @MikePFrank for his third reversible computing patent, issued for work done at Sandia National Labs prior to joining @VaireHQ 👏
Just issued today! @SandiaLabs U.S. Patent #12,620,993, "BALLISTIC SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUIT FOR ASYNCHRONOUS REVERSIBLE LOGIC ELEMENT," M.P. Frank (now at @VaireHQ), R.M. Lewis, and S.B. Kaplan (contractor).
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High profile technologies don't always offer anything of value (except to the bank balances of their promoters).
My favourite contemporary example is the laughable Boston Dynamics robot dog or, even worse, their load-carrying BigDog (image attached). What they gain in agility (debatable), they lose in speed of movement and manufacturing costs.
What problems are they trying to solve? Why not simply put rugged wheels on a chassis with a range of attachments?
@DARPA scatters research funds like confetti. It's the American taxpayer that suffers.
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A few years ago I proposed using @what3words as the mechanism for remembering a very strong password.
Simply visualise a specific geographical location known only to you. The @What3words app will give you 3 random words. If you happen to forget those 3 words, simply use the app to find the location/password again.
For some reason, the What3Words company didn't promote it.
@katebevan @EvanHD #bbcpm @BBCNews
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