Turner Caldwell
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 5 Aug
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And these are, like, big refineries are effectively big robots.
You have the sensing and telemetry.
You have the actuators to control how the plant operates.
And, you know, they're, you know,
Imagine like teleoperating humanoid robots like forever.
Like that is what the refining industry and the pressing industry has been.
And there's obviously like PID control loops that kind of like maintain set points so you can maintain temperature automatically, maintain pH automatically.
But the thing that really matters is that the feed material to the pressing facilities is constantly changing because the mine, like the ore body is changing over time.
And so the way that the industry manages that today is they will blend the feedstock to minimize variability that's going into the processing facilities, and that enables them to minimize the amount of change that has to happen on the processing facility.
So we're trying to flip that and say, okay, if we build a hyper-dynamic and highly flexible refining circuit, ideally without adding a whole bunch of cost, what does that do to optimizing the global operation from the mine to the refinery?
But it's first aimed at reducing reagent consumption, reducing energy consumption.
And, you know, Google kind of proved this.
They bought DeepMind in 2016, 2017.
And one of the first things they did was, you know, throw the DeepMind team at automating and optimizing the data center thermal systems.
So air handler, chiller, cooling tower.
And, you know, that's not a super complex system.
You have weather, which is a factor.
You have loads within the building, which is a factor.
But you ultimately have like nine control variables between
like airflow rate, supplier temperature, the cooling water temperatures and flow rates, both in the chiller system and in the cooling tower system.
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