Find your way through the laboratory

Change the assumptions. Follow the atoms, machines and electricity through to useful local capability.

Build new capability while preserving the electricity allocated to clean-energy transition and essential development.

Explore annual production, surviving fleets, refurbishment, motors and the material in each machine.

Separate power ratings, delivered energy, losses and the atomic materials needed by a chosen design.

Substitute a source mineral, change its grade and recovery, then compare the required output with existing industry.

Create a bill of materials for factories, grids, robots, panels, service parts and other equipment.

Size on-board generation, heat rejection, payload transport and power delivered to other users.

Connect population growth, domestic industry, civic robots, sovereign compute and global exports.

Manufacture civic robots for Australian communities and export. Size the factories, costs, supply chains and locally governed capability.

Explore the 20 million person Quandamooka design, Australian capacity for 100 million and the mineral processing needed for a larger robot industry.

Read the integrated research paper with dated references and download the Word version.

Inspect the dated sources, the calculation boundaries and the relationships between the projects.

Check image dates, original sources, reuse licences and exact generation prompts.

Read the terms for this public source project and the separate licences for photographs and adapted data.

Move between the calculators, integrated paper, evidence and image credits.