New whitepaper: Techno-economics analysis for hard-tech innovation
In this whitepaper, I make the case for more investment in early-stage techno-economic analysis at the national level. I propose that a...
Burk TechnoEconomics Blog
New article in CEP Magazine: Applying Scaling Laws in Process Engineering
I wrote this CEP article after reading Geoffrey West's fascinating book 'Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities...
CapEx: It matters how you slice it.
Confusion about capital cost categories can cause problems in early stage cost modeling.
Cyclotron Road & Techonomics: Cost modeling for science entrepreneurs
Cyclotron Road is a technology incubator embedded at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. It’s a home for innovators whose ideas are too...
Upcoming AIChE webinar
AIChE approached me with the idea of producing a one-hour live webinar related to my recent article for Chemical Engineer Progress on...
New article from Burk Engineering in CEP Magazine
Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP) is the flagship publication of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the world's leading...
Pro Tip: Searchable Excel Stream Tables with VBA
Note: This article was originally published in AIChE's ChEnected blog. The astute process engineer loves building stream tables in Excel....
AIChE ChEnected guest blog: 'What's the most important question for your R&D breakthroug
I wrote this article as a guest blogger for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers blog, ChEnected. Check out the original and...
Using Monte Carlo Analysis in Technology Development: Quantifying risk due to uncertainty
“It is an inescapable fact that estimates of resource requirements for future systems are beset with uncertainty. The question is not...
Cognitive bias & technology development
“In terms of its consequences for decisions, the optimistic bias may well be the most significant cognitive bias. Because optimistic bias...