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- September 1, 2026Revised September 1, 202634 min readEssayEnergyAIMaterialsEngineering
The Exponent Is the Price: Quantum Tunneling and the Architecture of Wireless Electric Grids
The phrase "wireless power transfer by quantum tunneling" is, read literally, a category error. Single-particle electron tunneling through a vacuum or dielectric barrier is suppressed as with for a metal–vacuum–metal junction. Deliv…
Oleksii Vergunenko - August 31, 2026Revised September 16, 202637 min readEssayBioTechChemistryMedicineEngineering
Target Detection as the Rate-Limiting and Specificity-Limiting Step in CRISPR Genome Editing
CRISPR-Cas genome editing is usually described as a cutting technology. It is more accurately described as a search technology with a cutting terminus. The chemistry of phosphodiester hydrolysis is unremarkable; nucleases have performed it for billions of years. What is remarkabl…
Oleksii Vergunenko - August 29, 2026Revised August 29, 202616 min readEssayEnergyPhysicsMaterialsEngineering
The Micro Black Hole Energy Converter: A Specification-Driven Assessment of Hawking-Radiation Power Extraction
A black hole of mass 10⁸–10⁹ kg radiates its entire rest-mass energy as Hawking emission over years to decades at sustained power of order 10¹⁶–10¹⁷ W, making it the most mass-efficient energy converter permitted by known physics: effective conversion efficiency approaches unity,…
Oleksii Vergunenko - August 29, 2026Revised September 16, 202623 min readEssayBioTechRoboticsChemistryMaterialsEngineering
Engineered Living Materials as Robotic Integuments: Platforms, Specifications, and a Bandwidth Argument for Hybrid Skin
Engineered living materials (ELMs) — materials in which living cells are a load-bearing, functional component rather than a contaminant — have been proposed as a covering layer for robots. Three platforms have produced physical demonstrations: tissue-engineered mammalian dermis a…
Oleksii Vergunenko - August 29, 2026Revised August 30, 202619 min readEssayComputeAIPhysicsMaterialsEngineering
Multiplication Without Transistors: An Audit of Photonic Matrix Processors as Accelerators for Large Language Model Training
Matrix multiplication accounts for the overwhelming majority of arithmetic operations — and a dominant share of energy expenditure — in training large language models (LLMs). Photonic processors perform matrix–vector multiplication (MVM) as a passive consequence of light propaga…
Oleksii Vergunenko