Physics-native consulting · advanced energy systems

Engineering judgment, grounded in first principles.

Nornec is a boutique, principal-led consultancy for advanced and emerging energy systems. When a technology sits at the edge of what's proven, we tell you what the physics actually permits — and what it doesn't — before the engineering and the money follow.

Principal-ledEvery engagement, directly Physics-nativeFirst-law, not vendor decks Norway · EUOslo / Sandvika
The principal

Sindre Zeiner-Gundersen

A physicist working at the frontier of energy science — pulsed plasma electrolysis, hydrogen Rydberg matter, and the systems built on top of them. Nornec exists so that work reaches clients without being diluted through layers of a firm.

PhD candidate, University of Iceland
Hydrogen Rydberg matter · pulsed plasma electrolysis
Technical Advisor, Joi Scientific
Saltwater electrolysis · plasma reactor systems
Founder, Aidevo AS
Physics admissibility kernel · feasibility engines
Approach

We reason from the laws down, not the brochure up.

Advanced energy attracts confident claims. Our method is to start where the physics is non-negotiable and only then ask what the engineering and economics can deliver.

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Conservation first

Mass and energy balances set the ceiling. A claim that needs a free lunch is settled before any modelling begins — no exceptions made for novelty.

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Calibrated to reality

Kinetics, emissions, capture and cost are modelled against real plant and lab data, not idealised performance. The uncertainty is named, not hidden.

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Written to survive scrutiny

Every conclusion carries its reasoning, so it holds up in front of a technical due-diligence team, a board, or a funding agency.

Services

Scoped engagements, fixed in advance.

Clear deliverables and scope fixed in advance — so the conversation stays about the physics, and pricing follows once the problem is understood.

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Technical review

An independent physics read on a technology, claim, or process design. What's sound, what's borderline, what fails.

Fixed scopeindependent
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Feasibility & systems study

Full feasibility for an energy system or sub-system — thermodynamics, kinetics, integration and economics, with sensitivities.

Fixed scopeper study
S—03

Pre-FEED & investor package

Investment-grade documentation for advanced energy projects, built to withstand external technical due diligence.

Fixed scopeper package
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Technical advisory retainer

Standing access to principal-level judgment across an evolving programme of work, claims and decisions.

Ongoingprincipal access
Domains

Where we work.

Concentrated in advanced and emerging energy — the areas where first-principles reasoning earns its keep.

Hydrogen production Plasma electrolysis Ammonia & methanol Carbon capture Waste-to-energy Nuclear fission Fusion concepts Emerging energy claims
Two instruments, one discipline

Nornec is the judgment. Aidevo is the engine.

Nornec delivers principal-led consulting. Aidevo AS — the companion firm — productises the same physics into an admissibility kernel and a shelf of feasibility engines, for when the work calls for software rather than a study.

The reasoning is identical; only the form changes. Engagements move between the two as the problem demands.

Visit Aidevo →

If a claim sounds too good, that's the one to send.

Tell us what you're evaluating. We'll tell you what the physics permits — directly, and in writing.

szg@nornec.com →