# ![@Jordan_W_Taylor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1497649632670855172.png) @Jordan_W_Taylor Jordan Taylor

Jordan Taylor posts on X about the world, in the, gas, ireland the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  97.5% [nascar](/list/nascar)  #34 [finance](/list/finance)  3.33% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  3.33% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  3.33% [currencies](/list/currencies)  2.5% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  1.67% [stocks](/list/stocks)  0.83% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  0.83% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  0.83%

**Social topic influence**
[the world](/topic/the-world) #1996, [in the](/topic/in-the) 8.33%, [gas](/topic/gas) 7.5%, [ireland](/topic/ireland) 6.67%, [level](/topic/level) 3.33%, [future](/topic/future) 3.33%, [rolls royce](/topic/rolls-royce) 3.33%, [jordan](/topic/jordan) #425, [up to](/topic/up-to) 3.33%, [thread](/topic/thread) #1585

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"In [----] a US Navy X-47B became the first unmanned aircraft to be refuelled in-flight. Usually remote controlled here it acted autonomously to dock with the drogue. Since then Airbus has perfected autonomous AI refuelling for entire flocks of UAVs: The dawn of the Terminators"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2016096472987472143)  2026-01-27T10:30Z 45.8K followers, 49.5K engagements


"In [----] Neil Armstrong took a giant step and fluffed his lines. But while he did something else was coming to fruition. It was the NERVA program for nuclear thermal propulsion and it could have opened the gates of heaven. It was cancelled. "What they took from you" etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2016512389114413294)  2026-01-28T14:03Z 45.8K followers, 29.3K engagements


"@NoahRettberg Ireland gets something similar due to the foreign investment: Massive multinational med-tech and pharma plants in little rural towns. It can be weird passing through some nowhere-ville in the middle of the country and suddenly *Boom* a giant Merck plant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2017251117596291292)  2026-01-30T14:58Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"There are clever and dumb ways to generate power. The Solar updraft tower is a dumb way: A giant greenhouse leading to an updraft chimney via turbines. The thermal efficiency is under 2%. From ocean ducts to lightning towers there are many dumb ways. Want to learn about them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2017273208177573902)  2026-01-30T16:26Z 45.8K followers, 29.6K engagements


"Last year we saw the tumultuous blast-off of Elon Musks big Martian dream. Launches of the largest rocket in the world which led us to a small amount of iteration and a large amount of explosion. http://x.com/i/article/2016122664880918529 http://x.com/i/article/2016122664880918529"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2017558281099559174)  2026-01-31T11:19Z 45.8K followers, 10.3K engagements


"Ireland has a target to supply [---] TeraWatt-hours of biogas from [----]. If this is achieved then in a few years 7%-10% of our electricity could be supplied by. poo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2017682459404411011)  2026-01-31T19:32Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"http://x.com/i/article/2017587211181371392 http://x.com/i/article/2017587211181371392"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2017919997503262732)  2026-02-01T11:16Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"In [----] an impoverished Ireland commissioned the world's largest hydro plant. With a 12km headrace Ardnacrusha diverted the Shannon to power a nation. Today in Europe we're vastly richer and more capable but in our comfort we've lost some of the crazed ambition of the past"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2018271981099962413)  2026-02-02T10:35Z 45.9K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Lets say youre a big engineering company and you want to do something outside the box. Maybe form a seamless car chassis in one shot maybe build a factory for small nuclear reactors or use AI to automate line care or figure out how to weld big & awkward things really quickly whatever. You basically have a choice of three conventional ways to tackle the problem. 1: Use your own guys in your own factory. After all theyre the experts you hired them for a reason and theyve got decades of experience making your stuff. Who better right Well this sounds like a good idea but has shortcomings. For one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2018730534780727310)  2026-02-03T16:57Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Irish society is nowhere near as woke as the government pretends. This doesn't mean open rebellion; it just means that certain rulings will go ignored at the local level. As for the rest: Energy is a legitimate concern. Housing and infrastructure is too but in fairness that's why a [---] billion Euro infrastructure and housing fund is being committed for the next five years alone. If this sounds small it's only because Ireland is small. Multiply by [--] to get a UK equivalent number and realise it's enormous (if overdue). Ireland has its challenges but it's better equipped to rise to them than"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019205472549576766)  2026-02-05T00:24Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"One thing I'll also note having lived in both countries: Ireland has for now a hidden strength in that it's less atomised than the UK. Communities are more rooted and families a tad more traditional in that they meet regularly. There are three reasons: One is the GAA and Gaelic sports which are a huge community glue at the local level. Two is that the Irish much more than the Brits are more likely to spend the weekend travelling up-country to see their mam & dad and fourteen siblings (slight exaggeration). Third it's just a more rural country with many smaller towns. That doesn't sound like a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019284996255592485)  2026-02-05T05:40Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"There's a difference in birth rates but it's not quite that marked. The non-national population in Ireland is about 12% by census though could be a lot higher and they made up 25% of recorded births: So a higher birth rate partially explained by the age cohort (children and OAPs seldom immigrate) but not stratospherically higher. That difference is likely to settle down to population average over the generations. plus the children of these immigrants like my own are born Irish with everything that implies. I don't think there'll be a replacement."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019328409432707077)  2026-02-05T08:33Z 45.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@xwanyex I love that movie. Especially the fact that watching football primarily involves shouting "Kick it Kick it""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019427033001128197)  2026-02-05T15:04Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Does anyone want to guess what was the first plane to fly with a turboprop engine Anyone Wrong. It was a Gloster Meteor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019451332248166693)  2026-02-05T16:41Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Interesting I'd expected them to simply dust off their hands and say "EDF PWRs and Rolls-Royce SMRs: Let's build the entire strategy around them" Soliciting outside nuclear companies for advanced reactors might be hedging bets or placing a stake in the ground for the future or something else. Hard to see it as anything but a positive https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019517809399599507 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019517809399599507"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019517809399599507)  2026-02-05T21:05Z 45.8K followers, [---] engagements


"This will bear reading The UK government has just published a 'framework' for advanced reactor projects and builds and is setting up UK-US partnership agreements. Hopefully they can be quicker than they were with the SMR competition. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-unlock-advanced-nuclear-to-grow-economy https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-unlock-advanced-nuclear-to-grow-economy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019519592788619309)  2026-02-05T21:12Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@OnDisasters "Think in Russian." Great movie.👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019663157258777097)  2026-02-06T06:43Z 45.8K followers, [---] engagements


"The history and hidden innovations in mankind's most perfect machine. A Big Read for your weekend. Enjoy https://jordanwtaylor2.substack.com/p/honey-i-shrank-the-world https://jordanwtaylor2.substack.com/p/honey-i-shrank-the-world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019808588940955834)  2026-02-06T16:21Z 45.9K followers, 13.7K engagements


"@VKAbramowicz Internal forces cancel out into structural stress & heat: Conservation of momentum is concerned with the net momentum leaving the system. Fair question though. Also most thrust is not generated in the combustion chambers anyway but in expansion through the turbine and nozzle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2020106014192799900)  2026-02-07T12:03Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"In a gas turbine the low pressure compressor & turbine work optimally at a lower speed than the high pressure section. So almost all gas turbine engines have dual spools with one shaft inside the other. Except Rolls-Royce who favour three shafts because of course they do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2020416168197255334)  2026-02-08T08:35Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@WullieHalliday Or the worst possible thing might *not* happen. The instinct for kneejerk pessimism really needs to be drilled out of a lot of British people. Also: Read the article. It isn't a big bang but a continuous series of steps forward which is worth optimism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2020990152789856547)  2026-02-09T22:36Z 45.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@bbalkus @ramez This why I added "and funded""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2021249313481838937)  2026-02-10T15:46Z 45.9K followers, [--] engagements


"You merely adopted the rain. I was born in it. Moulded by it. It has officially rained every single day in the United Kingdom since the start of [----] [--] consecutive days in total. https://t.co/5VXUock3qg It has officially rained every single day in the United Kingdom since the start of [----] [--] consecutive days in total. https://t.co/5VXUock3qg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2021717830035538333)  2026-02-11T22:47Z 45.9K followers, 12.9K engagements


"Lots of capacity delivered in series by people who've done it before and gotten good at it because they're delivering *lots* of capacity I adore what the Chinese are doing with nuclear power. One day two containment domes and one containment bottom placements: On both #CAP1000 reactor units under construction at #SPIC's #Lianjiang #NPP unit [--] and @CN_Nuclear_Corp's #Xudabao NPP unit [--] the containment was closed yesterday. On the same day the bottom containment https://t.co/ZCa026LWJW One day two containment domes and one containment bottom placements: On both #CAP1000 reactor units under"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2022064552624762900)  2026-02-12T21:45Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements


"This dark December we all need a ray of light. How about a ray of [--] billion suns prizing apart the secrets of metallurgy cellular genetics and drug discovery A thread on the Diamond Light Source"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1737165270077083934)  2023-12-19T17:37Z 45.8K followers, 286.9K engagements


"The future as they say is dreamed up in America and made in China. This tends to make European skin itch which is fair enough. We all read history and know there was a time when Britain was Great http://x.com/i/article/2015083661776003072 http://x.com/i/article/2015083661776003072"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2020104681150722359)  2026-02-07T11:57Z 45.8K followers, 18.2K engagements


"@Katy_Faust Agreed on not letting them go to crche in their first year (you'd have a job finding childcare that would take them that early over here). but needing near constant touch Some of us are working parents with two or more other children. There's a balance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2020228793110085886)  2026-02-07T20:10Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@ramez You should see a Fanuc automated injection moulding cell (with robot unload) going at full chat. Great stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2020286944018669779)  2026-02-08T00:01Z 45.8K followers, [---] engagements


"What country has the most nuclear new build plants either under construction or planned & funded in the Western world No the answer is actually: Britain With [---] Gigawatts on the way plus the promise of a big SMR rollout things might be looking up And there's more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2020910907706966386)  2026-02-09T17:21Z 45.8K followers, 23K engagements


"I've made this article free for you today The surprising and not-so-surprising ways we can make nuclear power cheap again. It ends on probably the most obvious and powerful suggestion of all. Enjoy https://jordanwtaylor2.substack.com/p/make-atomics-great-again https://jordanwtaylor2.substack.com/p/make-atomics-great-again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2021632766467878943)  2026-02-11T17:09Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@mwt2008 [--] GWh for the UK is an impressive target but it won't do for seasonal or week long lee periods given the 30GW average UK demand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2021656340784193944)  2026-02-11T18:43Z 45.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@Nickesanderson @TechPostsEU 100% The EPR might not be perfect but we should be building plenty of them and getting good at it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2021664504829165619)  2026-02-11T19:15Z 45.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@Ramble_Jack If you fire *everyone* then you lose the experience that was gained through hard way. The same project crew well paid & well selected should deliver many reactors over & over again and get very good at it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2021664967876092118)  2026-02-11T19:17Z 45.8K followers, [---] engagements


"I made the mistake of replying on a parenting thread here a couple of days ago and now my feed is a cluster tornado of parenting purity spirals. It seems if you're not suffering you're not doing it right. So here's a turbofan eating a bird to fix the timeline"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2021709420267528268)  2026-02-11T22:14Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@Simon_Ingari Sho gave HR that authority anyway This should rest with the line manager who knows what's up and has the ability to gap-fill. Which failing everything else just means telling them "Make sure junior engineer is trained and up to speed so they can cover you. Approved.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2022068625386156409)  2026-02-12T22:01Z 45.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Don't look up On April 13th [----] a [---] metre [--] million ton asteroid called Apophis will hurtle past our planet closer than GPS satellites. Near miss But if one day The Big One comes and it's aimed right at us how do we save ourselves The asteroid intercept thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1824481471270187405)  2024-08-16T16:20Z 45.8K followers, 280.3K engagements


"Rotating detonation engines: Riding the shockwave A technology that could revolutionise aviation powering engines with endlessly rotating supersonic shockwaves. It could bring us hypersonic flight super high efficiency and more. The detonation engine thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1936087864271323205)  2025-06-20T15:44Z 45.8K followers, 276.3K engagements


"The F-111 Aardvark ejection system launched the entire cockpit as a module thought to improve pilot survivability after remote ejections. It was however a very hard landing and external airbags were integrated after some ejections led to spinal fractures"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2012124199327055998)  2026-01-16T11:26Z 45.8K followers, 38.6K engagements


"Thanks for reading it But thousands a year isn't necessary: China has shown us that sound program management and repeat builds can drive the cost of nuclear below coal. Wind & solar are pleasant but incapable of running a grid unassisted with existing technology so it's either backup gas backup hydroelectricity (if you're lucky) or baseload nuclear. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021817611533619217 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021817611533619217"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2021817611533619217)  2026-02-12T05:24Z 45.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@gaulicsmith Here you go. I did the hard stuff so you don't have to: The feasible methods for interstellar (non FTL) travel and their gargantuan energy costs. https://jordanwtaylor2.substack.com/p/touching-heaven https://jordanwtaylor2.substack.com/p/touching-heaven"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2021932369180266575)  2026-02-12T13:00Z 45.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Is Europe even relevant anymore -Or is it only good for Harry Potter the Louvre and fancy cheese Let's take a whimsical jaunt through things that Europe still does quite well And where it might stand to improve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1814319441812889678)  2024-07-19T15:20Z 45.9K followers, 3.6M engagements


"What's Britain good at Is it an island of fog breathing has-beens or a nascent industrial juggernaut What in fact does Britain do well Here's a thread of a few surprising things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1869781277525901389)  2024-12-19T16:26Z 45.9K followers, 576.5K engagements


"This inspired level of pragmatism also applies to robotics automation and entire production systems. A fleet of small improvements have huge cumulative effects pay for themselves and can be enacted quickly. We're not hunting werewolves and you don't need a silver bullet. With surprising ease you basically ignore all the esoteric magic layouts and pick a very basic trusted configuration that has no intrinsic malady. Then freed from years of work making the concept function (exactly what happened to sleeve valve engines which took half a decade https://t.co/FAuqoENhzT With surprising ease you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2018974050907766919)  2026-02-04T09:04Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Since the newborn is sleeping next to our bed the missus got a nightlight with a colour dial so we can tune it to a spectrum that doesn't keep us awake. So anyway now I'm making submarine jokes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019714929792819225)  2026-02-06T10:08Z 45.9K followers, 72.3K engagements


"@Noahpinion I'd modify that to: Humans don't want that many kids *right now*. We tend to put off & delay the moment as a result far beyond what is reasonable even though most people still want a few kids. Nature used to force the timing issue but now we're free to make bad choices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2022004941678944469)  2026-02-12T17:48Z 45.9K followers, [---] engagements


"There's a lot of thread content on this page so this is a pinned index of engineering threads for easy navigation. Some mine some not. 1) The HP turbine blade single crystal casting and "metallurgy's secret cheat code": https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1602708433081454595t=Ufe-4zbZKizvTYfr_ywnRw&s=19 1/This is a thread about metallurgy's secret cheat code and how it's used by the aerospace industry to accomplish things that no material should. In particular how that cheat code is enabled on the humble but amazing jet engine turbine blade. https://t.co/7rIkVufwwR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1606221222777196544)  2022-12-23T09:32Z 45.9K followers, 589.7K engagements


"This is the Airbus BLADE laminar flow wing demonstrator which flew in [----]. It showcases a technology that can reduce wing skin friction by 50% and fuel burn by 8%. But among it's hazards are tiny insects. Why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1660017648288112641)  2023-05-20T20:20Z 45.9K followers, 373K engagements


"Ultra low-budget aerodynamics 1: Use a van with a splitter plate instead of a wind tunnel The Airbus AlbatrossONE demonstrator showing Semi-Aeroelastic hinged wingtip functionality under aerodynamic load and in tip stall recovery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1757090977045442684)  2024-02-12T17:15Z 45.9K followers, 173.1K engagements


"Aircraft are thirsty and burn lots of fuel right Wrong. The average fuel efficiency of air travel today is about [--] mpg per passenger. That makes it more fuel efficient than your drive to work. The best hit 100mpg/passenger. How did aviation manage it A thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1817188579476390336)  2024-07-27T13:21Z 45.9K followers, 3.1M engagements


"In this software-gilded age let's pay tribute to the sullen monsters that keep the whole show on the road The beasts of burden that carry our entire industrial civilization Let's talk Heat Exchangers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1842231775084310743)  2024-10-04T15:54Z 45.9K followers, 775.7K engagements


"This is the NASA Ames low speed wind tunnel the biggest in the world. It can fit full sized planes and takes up to 104MW of power to run But why use a wind tunnel and what problems do you run into when trying to make it smaller Let's go deep. The wind tunnel thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1882815319775056281)  2025-01-24T15:38Z 45.9K followers, 238.5K engagements


"Kilopower: A simple NASA micro-reactor with 1kW output and 5kW heat using sodium coolant wicking in heat pipes to sterling engines. So simple is the design that after initial start-up you may not need to move the control rod (the only reactor core moving part) in [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1904574756503925122)  2025-03-25T16:43Z 45.9K followers, 129K engagements


"The Economist published this article that's contentious but probably right: It argues that laws protecting labour in much of Europe make lay-offs so onerous that high-risk moonshot projects become unviable. Making it easier to fire people could weirdly benefit everyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1974808986160366049)  2025-10-05T12:08Z 45.9K followers, 2.5M engagements


"Terfenol-D an alloy of Terbium iron and Dysprosium created by the US Naval Ordnance Laboratory is a highly magnetorestrictive material used in submarine sonar arrays because of a special property: It expands significantly with high force and no fatigue in a magnetic field"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2015442110082601373)  2026-01-25T15:10Z 45.9K followers, 208.5K engagements


"I've found no better depiction of the Area Rule than this image: Supersonic wave drag (from shock wave generation) is minimised when changes to an aircraft's cross-sectional area are gradual with no steep hills or cliff-edges. The YF-23 was an exemplar of this principle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019084969226776822)  2026-02-04T16:25Z 45.9K followers, 56.3K engagements


"Hinkley Point C: This massive nuclear plant will deliver over [--] gigawatts of baseload capacity at a record-breaking [--] billion pounds of cost Unfortunately this fits the trend for increasing nuclear expense in the West. Is there anything we can do about it I've some ideas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2021632106317942941)  2026-02-11T17:07Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@celestialbe1ng The key is to accept the rain like a personal challenge. A northerner never wears a coat unless there's ice on the roof. A man of the North *never* runs inside to escape the rain. You walk slowly and ignore it to embarrass it into going away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2022073483128451259)  2026-02-12T22:21Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements


"How it started how it's going. People don't think of the jet engine as being innovative but that's because the innovations are difficult and hidden. It's one of mankind's greatest machines shrank the world far more than the Silicon Valley And it evolved through history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2019807965549924444)  2026-02-06T16:18Z 45.9K followers, 275.5K engagements


"It's easy to be alarmist about AI until you're running a project that involves injection moulding development. After that the digital realm holds no horrors because the physical world hates you much more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2022292971413012824)  2026-02-13T12:53Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements


"The long march of supply chains in which are carried your iPhone and your Argentinian beef are powered by merchant shipping. The great beasts rust-stained and stubborn ply the world's oceans for http://x.com/i/article/2014803537461403648 http://x.com/i/article/2014803537461403648"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2022634175426121851)  2026-02-14T11:29Z 45.9K followers, 29.1K engagements


"Engineering aesthetics. Heres the thing about taking aero measurements. You never want the influence of the measurement device to artificially influence the flow field. The implication could be that the data you measure is only the artificially influenced picture and not the real one. All that to say https://t.co/tBqYH7Hnwl Heres the thing about taking aero measurements. You never want the influence of the measurement device to artificially influence the flow field. The implication could be that the data you measure is only the artificially influenced picture and not the real one. All that to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2022639325209333818)  2026-02-14T11:49Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day We went to a restaurant so fancy there's a separate server for the wine menu and cocktail menu and French people described how complex our order was with each course. .Which were so tiny we had to get takeout pizza later. Oh well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2022780926342619350)  2026-02-14T21:12Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@eoghan On the other hand some of those foreigners marry Irish women have Irish children and so are subsumed into Ireland. One generation later and it's broad Tipp accents all the way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2022792098022322355)  2026-02-14T21:56Z 45.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Monster Russia's Zubr Class hovercraft is the biggest in the world. At [---] tons this behemoth can carry [--] main battle tanks or [--] armoured vehicles with [---] troops. But what are the design principles behind the hovercaft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2000581439612395534)  2025-12-15T14:59Z 45.9K followers, 23.9K engagements


"It's easy to search: Taking the [--] biggest planned operational or cancelled Greenland mining projects gives [--] operational [--] cancelled (one for financial reasons the other because of permissions withdrawn due to Uranium content per your comment above) and [--] in planning stages. Keep an eye on the Tanbreez rare earth project by Critical Metals Corp (American) which anticipates the pilot plant this year and initial exploitation to follow. I'm not seeing your issue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2011739989562777992)  2026-01-15T09:59Z 45.8K followers, [---] engagements


"With all the buzz about #LK99 and the possibility of a room temperature superconductor let's have a topical thread. Can a superconducting induction coil make the perfect battery And is it world changing Read on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1687139004578242560)  2023-08-03T16:30Z 45.8K followers, 686.4K engagements


"How do you create the sharpest thing in the world And why would you do it In this thread we take a voyage into true sharpness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1735692015675773130)  2023-12-15T16:03Z 45.8K followers, 1.6M engagements


"The desalination thread This is the Ras Al Khair desalination plant in Saudi Arabia. One of the world's largest it outputs over [--] million cubic metres of water a day. But how is desalination done Get ready for lots of head-melting schematics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1740363166603968637)  2023-12-28T13:24Z 45.8K followers, 739.6K engagements


"You can't squeeze blood from a stone. But with [----] bar of water pressure you can shatter shale with the fists of Poseidon and squeeze out precious precious methane. This is The Fracking Thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1755996729822851312)  2024-02-09T16:46Z 45.8K followers, 890.3K engagements


"A spark in the darkness. This week Sheffield Forgemasters achieved in [--] hours the welding of a nuclear Small Modular Reactor RPV mockup that should have taken up to a year. How Incoming energy revolution: This is the Electron Beam Welding thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1761067648136204299)  2024-02-23T16:37Z 45.8K followers, 702.7K engagements


"Alchemy never died it super-sized. Oil refining changed the world and the world changed refining. It won world wars saved the whales and gave us wonders. This thread is a tribute to the Alchemists of Oil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1768669724739608740)  2024-03-15T16:04Z 45.8K followers, 186.3K engagements


"Mach diamonds. When a supersonic nozzle is over-expanded (lower pressure than ambient) or under-expanded (higher) a pressure oscillation occurs with compression waves that can coalesce into powerful normal shocks igniting unburnt fuel. And so we see diamonds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1772676680718467132)  2024-03-26T17:27Z 45.8K followers, 96.9K engagements


"Things that sound simple & aren't: The bearing and oil system on a jet engine. First the main bearing locations on a Trent [----] engine. Bearings need oil oil gets hot. Oil needs circulating and sealing. Next the seals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1776579564170260787)  2024-04-06T11:55Z 45.8K followers, 606.5K engagements


"A heart so hot it pumps molten lead. Let's dive into lead cooled fast reactors Not literally but let's find out what makes them tick what challenges remain and why the unreal prospect of cooling reactor cores with hot lead could be a Very Good Idea. A thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1778811526616322267)  2024-04-12T15:44Z 45.8K followers, 303.9K engagements


"What muscles move the wings of Icarus Let's go over fuels turbopumps boosters nozzles the lot. It's the liquid rocket engine thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1781335943166775607)  2024-04-19T14:55Z 45.8K followers, 214.8K engagements


"In [----] short on electrical grid inertia and long on renewable power Ireland installed the world's largest flywheel [---] spinning tons. Why did we do something so preposterous And are there other better storage technologies Let's find out. It's the grid storage thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1786738078104613101)  2024-05-04T12:42Z 45.8K followers, 1.8M engagements


"Is it OK to have a favourite airbrake configuration I have a favourite airbrake configuration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1790805138162020690)  2024-05-15T18:03Z 45.8K followers, 251.3K engagements


"A heart of helium: A power source that could save the world This is a thread about the meltdown-proof hot as hell Very High Temperature Reactor and something called the Dragon. Let's turn up the heat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1791442038447083652)  2024-05-17T12:14Z 45.8K followers, 349K engagements


"It's named after titans. It's our favourite space age material used in rockets planes & medical implants. It brings us the colour white. It's an absolute devil to make. This thread is the story of Titanium"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1794055530501099622)  2024-05-24T17:19Z 45.8K followers, 1.7M engagements


"In high vacuum the mean free path for air molecules gets so large that normal aerodynamics breaks down. Shown is the path of air molecules through a turbomolecular pump in high vacuum at extreme RPM. Tomorrow we'll go even further in the Vacuum System thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1796211033423368537)  2024-05-30T16:04Z 45.8K followers, 212K engagements


"Creating the infinite energy machine: A thread on the Molten Salt Fast Reactor Specifically the liquid fuel variant where the nuclear fuel is dissolved in a liquid coolant and flows continuously at over 700C. Why on earth would you build such a beast Let's find out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1806709559131595204)  2024-06-28T15:21Z 45.8K followers, 400.1K engagements


"Hydrofoils The fastest boats on the ocean: No Bond villain should be without one. How do they work How does the ship not fall over Let's find out The hydrofoil thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1809266244521996586)  2024-07-05T16:41Z 45.8K followers, 648.5K engagements


"Fun facts: A 1GW nuclear plant supplying about [--] million people will make about [--] cubic metres of vitrified high level nuclear waste a year. Fast reactors can make even less. A similarly sized coal plant will output [------] tons of ash and over [--] million tons of CO2 annually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1812875844924117458)  2024-07-15T15:44Z 45.8K followers, 97.1K engagements


"Chocolate. We'll start with something light. From mass-market to boutique Europe is in a class of it's own here. Five countries; Germany Belgium Italy Poland and the Netherlands make up half of all global chocolate exports. And it's lovely. Do I really need to go on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1814319701020782951)  2024-07-19T15:21Z 45.8K followers, 251.4K engagements


"Speaking of chocolate The Danes who scarcely need weight loss drugs loosed Ozempic on an unready world and the miracle drug is such a hit that it saved Denmark from recession last year all on its own and is growing their GDP just as it shrinks everyone else's waistlines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1814319839600660946)  2024-07-19T15:22Z 45.8K followers, 242.1K engagements


"Aerospace. From airliners through helicopters to gas turbines & powerplants Europe is a peer with the US in this industry leagues ahead of the rest of the world and has an R&D pipeline stocked with wonders. [---] billion Euro a year and a million employees in Europe alone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1814320034086293528)  2024-07-19T15:22Z 45.8K followers, 223.5K engagements


"Gas turbines. In aerospace Rolls-Royce is the 2nd biggest global player for widebody aircraft while CFM a Safran-GE joint venture takes 70% of the narrowbody market. In power generation Germany's Siemens is another giant fighting against yes GE again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1814320218467877146)  2024-07-19T15:23Z 45.8K followers, 216.9K engagements


"Big science projects. CERN the Large Hadron Collider the Extremely Large Telescope the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility the Joint European Torus ITER projects & organizations like these won't grace a stock market Index but they pay dividends for all humanity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1814321242767347821)  2024-07-19T15:27Z 45.8K followers, 168.7K engagements


"Agriculture. Specifically Dutch agriculture: That a tiny country a fifth of which is reclaimed from the sea can be the world's third largest agricultural exporter at over [---] billion Euro a year is extremely impressive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1814322853619040664)  2024-07-19T15:34Z 45.8K followers, 115.9K engagements


"@eyeslasho It was stunning. And just as stunning was [--] years later when the London opening ceremony blew it out of the water by doing something completely different"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1816889854174605456)  2024-07-26T17:34Z 45.8K followers, 561.7K engagements


"What is Supercritical CO2 You're about to learn of a technology that will change the world and how we generate energy. It's not quite a liquid and not quite a gas but it's all Miracle Get ready: We're going deep on this one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1829542000284389526)  2024-08-30T15:29Z 45.8K followers, 242.9K engagements


"In January [----] with the Great Depression strangling the world a [--] year old Frank Whittle patented the turbojet. The patent lapsed in [----] when he couldnt afford the [--] renewal but by then the world was changing. The story of the jet engine in a single thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1832085590948602101)  2024-09-06T15:56Z 45.8K followers, 206.9K engagements


"Nuclear power: Is it the future or outmoded technology Let's take a look at five Generation IV designs and maybe take some inspiration. Which is your favourite A nuclear rabbit hole for your weekend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1834968660495982878)  2024-09-14T14:53Z 45.8K followers, 142.9K engagements


"Additive Manufacture for heat exchangers Using a Gyroid structure a complex [--] dimensional interconnecting lattice inspired by nature low pressure heat exchangers have been made that are 50% more effective than counterflow heat exchangers but at only 1/10 the size"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1836444324617224373)  2024-09-18T16:37Z 45.8K followers, 124.4K engagements


"When nuclear reactors are too blas and you want to bend physics to your will Why not cool a reactor core with a fluid compressed & heated to such extremes that it's no longer a liquid or a gas but something else entirely. It's the Supercritical Water Reactor thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1837171275627626517)  2024-09-20T16:45Z 45.8K followers, 101.6K engagements


"In this software obsessed age it's quite humbling to think just how completely dependent industrial civilization is on heat exchangers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1840023898345144788)  2024-09-28T13:40Z 45.8K followers, 240.9K engagements


"The children's guide to Entropy. Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the heat death of the universe. A thread with pictures"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1844767449595494525)  2024-10-11T15:50Z 45.8K followers, 235.7K engagements


"Silence the fans Honeycomb structure Helmholtz resonators in the engine nacelle lining reflect an antiphase excitation to dampen noise in specific frequency bands which works well with annoying tonal fan noise. They can be stacked in layers to broaden the frequency damping"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1852974890288050507)  2024-11-03T07:23Z 45.8K followers, 108.2K engagements


"Reaction Engines and SABRE. As some of you may know a few days ago Reaction Engines went under. This was a company that for [--] years had been slowly developing a revolutionary hypersonic hybrid powerplant. SABRE: What is it and why is it important"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1854513675920445531)  2024-11-07T13:18Z 45.8K followers, 190.3K engagements


"This is a high pressure turbine blade for an aerospace gas turbine. It can generate about [----] horsepower per blade while pulling [-----] g in an environment [---] degrees higher than its melting point. Find me a more impressive thing that you can hold in one hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1856946138680598568)  2024-11-14T06:23Z 45.8K followers, 637.5K engagements


"The question you always wanted answered: How does a combine harvester work In this thread we take a dive into these awesome machines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1857463337698685125)  2024-11-15T16:39Z 45.8K followers, 201.7K engagements


"Hot stuff A nice infographic from Nature on different thermal management strategies for hypersonic vehicles and some of the materials used"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1859211860643340791)  2024-11-20T12:27Z 45.8K followers, 97.4K engagements


"This definitely counts as one of those pictures that's absolutely terrifying if you know what it is but otherwise is just kinda pretty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1860585466623324348)  2024-11-24T07:25Z 45.8K followers, 140.8K engagements


"Graphene The world's thinnest & strongest material a one-molecule thick film of it could build a hammock that could hold up a cat invisibly. It was isolated [--] years ago but what has happened with this super-material since then And how do you mass produce it Read on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1867614000349163917)  2024-12-13T16:54Z 45.8K followers, 221.9K engagements


"The death of steel. Big ships are sturdy but they're not immortal. Over time their maintenance costs soar until after [--] years or more they become more valuable as recycled metal and are sold to a scrapyard. What happens next will surprise you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1872607485426901316)  2024-12-27T11:36Z 45.8K followers, 1.7M engagements


"It takes a long time to build a nuclear reactor pressure vessel: About [--] years end to end. But the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in Sheffield has developed a package of technologies to reduce this to [--] months. And many other things besides"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1894070408455852272)  2025-02-24T17:02Z 45.8K followers, 52.5K engagements


"Yesterday's Thing-That-Shall-Not-Be-Mentioned has so poisoned my timeline that I need to retrain the algorithm. Drop as much techy engineering aerospacey high performance madness you can here and I'll like the lot. Link me up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1895823889697292642)  2025-03-01T13:10Z 45.8K followers, 87.5K engagements


"The Handley-Page Victor bomber first flew on Christmas eve [----]. just seven years after the end of World War [--]. It looks like it was built in space by Martians. What kind of engineering crack were we smoking back then and where did we hide it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1927765853778370789)  2025-05-28T16:36Z 45.8K followers, 83K engagements


"As a new graduate I once had to sit down and draft an engine test program for a subsystem of a new model of Rolls-Royce aero engine. It was illuminating. So here's a thread on some of the weirder things that this can involve: The jet engine testing thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1931010304198033655)  2025-06-06T15:28Z 45.8K followers, 243.6K engagements


"In [----] a strange machine was installed in Moneypoint Ireland: A giant flywheel weighing [---] tons spinning faster & slower. Why The machine is a Synchronous Condenser among the worlds biggest flywheels and its purpose is a bit unconventional: It adds inertia to an electric grid filled to the brim with on-&-off variable renewable generators especially wind power. Spin-up spin-down On a conventional electric grid turbines in nuclear or fossil fired power plants spin generators at a very specific speed to produce the characteristic [--] Hertz signal in all our electrical appliances: [--] Hertz means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1969040440293761133)  2025-09-19T14:06Z 45.8K followers, 81.8K engagements


"As an engineer your career doesn't need to be a linear path. I've worked on: Tidal turbines nuclear reactor cores aerospace gas turbine blades pacemakers contact lenses vacuum cleaners hydraulic motors lean manufacture and automated production. Take the scenic road"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1981782486880305332)  2025-10-24T17:58Z 45.8K followers, 60.3K engagements


"By the artifice of Man and God is born a furnace that forges the future. This is the big nuclear reactor thread A beginner's guide to the main reactor types with lots of diagrams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1745848069990596690)  2024-01-12T16:39Z 45.9K followers, 1M engagements


"A year's worth of nuclear grade RPV welding done in just [--] hours with an out-of-chamber EB Welding technique at Sheffield Forgemasters on an SMR reactor mockup. Guys this beyond massive. https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/British-company-pioneers-new-nuclear-welding-techn https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/British-company-pioneers-new-nuclear-welding-techn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1759680248071778377)  2024-02-19T20:43Z 45.9K followers, 183.2K engagements


"Ignition. Pyrotechnics hypergolics or torches: The ignition system must ignite rapidly and smoothly with minimal pressure peaks that could trigger combustion instabilities. Given propellant flow rates being wrong by milliseconds means the potential for catastrophe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1781340552069251399)  2024-04-19T15:14Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Cooling. The combustion chamber runs up to 3600K and this means wall cooling is crucial. There are a couple of ways: -Regenerative channel cooling using cryopropellant. -Film cooling. Coolant pressures of 30MPa are commonplace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1781340757644697999)  2024-04-19T15:15Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements


"You may not realise it but the next few years are going to be great years for experimental aircraft and aerodynamics innovation. Let's take a look at a few of the highlights you should know about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1812115785264869430)  2024-07-13T13:24Z 45.9K followers, 1.5M engagements


"Formula [--] This is a little like saying the US is best at baseball or Japan at sumo but the engineering sophistication of F1 teams is no joke with a tight cluster in the south of England. This white hot crucible of technological competition then feeds other industries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1814320377465553394)  2024-07-19T15:24Z 45.9K followers, 203K engagements


"Invented in Britain Used somewhere else A short tongue-in-cheek thread about my mother country's amazing ability to put in all the groundwork and then go .nah. Can you think of more examples Read on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1827297033566199934)  2024-08-24T10:48Z 45.9K followers, 594.9K engagements


"High pressure turbine blades in aerospace gas turbines are a lot more complex than you'd think: Commonly operating at temperatures well above metallurgical limits they need intensive cooling and thermal barrier coatings to survive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1855007759911034920)  2024-11-08T22:01Z 45.9K followers, 138K engagements


"My daughter was very very proud that she'd learned how to write her own name today so she practised on some paper. A lot. It was lovely but by the time she finished it had gone a little Stephen King"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/2018805855416885656)  2026-02-03T21:56Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements

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