Superb guest professor. Almost all female engineers in America are foreign born. America culture just kills the science bug in our native born females, ..... just shameful.
raniera stevens: That’s what I thought as soon as I saw that “defection” comment. As with almost all female engineers in America, she is foreign born. In America, our native born women DO NOT PERFORM in science. How shameful!
This is a great channel. The only channel I subscribe to, and the one I understand the least. I especially enjoyed the end. Very inspiring. And as well as being very knowledgeable, Dr. Meng is very cool. A great interview. Thanks!
More to the point, a"tiny upstart" who "knew nothing about batteries" to way beyond the average comprehension (and I suspect beyond many high level students)
That's such a great combination of super-smart lady and positive thinking about her role in the grand scheme. I hope Shirley gets great students and together they can accomplish their goals. Thank you for conducting the interview, and for the thought-provoking content Jordan.
Shirly..... I don't know if you will read this but thank you for making the brilliant choices you've made... The efforts of you and your colleagues are very ,much appreciated!!
Love Shirley’s enthusiasm for grid storage. When you think about it at the base level, the sun bombards earth in humongous levels and so much gets radiated away into space that if we could store just a few percent more we would all be richer. Until now most of that storage has been in crops and food, we now have a path to so much more potential.
Maybe if we can store enough energy on the sunny side and store it then use it on the dark side, we might even be able to influence global warming a tiny bit!
Shirley Meng is a full of enthusiasm, and hearing her speak about an optimistic future whilst showing restraint (cautious against over promising), makes me excited for the hope of our planet
I can't even express how delighted I am to see Jordan getting guests like this. The caliber of research he's done warrants it, but that's not always enough to get experts like this to share their insight with this series of tubes, or truck if you will, of the interwebs.
I am a student from Pakistan, researching ways to develop a new material for battery anodes. With limited experience and knowledge, I’ve faced many challenges along the way. I decided to dope cerium in zinc sulfide, synthesized the material, and completed its XRD analysis. Now, just days before submitting my thesis and graduating, I came across this channel. I am both thrilled and deeply inspired by Shirley Meng’s work, yet saddened by the reality of a technological gap-almost like a 200-year divide-between our work here and what is happening in developed countries. While I’m uncertain about my own contributions to this field, I have faith that, with visionaries like her and the relentless efforts of dedicated individuals in battery research, truly miraculous achievements lie ahead.
✊♥ Thanks for the comment man! It's really frsutrating when you don't have the resources or the environment to really show your potential. It took me 20 years before I managed to find my path, lol. I wish you all the best, and just try to enjoy creating!
Great interview Jordan! I have come across Shirley on some webinars so ....what a scoop! Congrats! You keep taking ur interviews and content to the next level each time! And we're the better for it!
It was surprising to me that most of the benefits of silicon already come with adding 10-20% to the anode, while transitioning to 100% silicon seems way too challenging in relation to the then smaller reward. Thanks for getting this kind of information out there Jordan!
Meng so impresses me. I feel she must have had a sparse beginning, but got her educational break early on - I'd be curious of her life story. She is a gem of personality & enthusiasm & her birth-graced brilliancy potential must have become visible early on in her education. Amazing & lucky to have teachers like her whose work bears the fruits of her visions!!!
That was wonderful! Made me tear up at the end. I would love to see another interview with her in a year. Make her a regular! Her comment about graphite and battery demand was the most juicy tidbit for me. It's so true. We're just getting started with electrification and will continue to be battery constrained with no end in sight.
I was really happy to show another side of battery research(ers). More of a human side. It helped so much that she was easy to interview. In due time, will do another interview.
You're a naturally good interviewer but there's something else --you KNOW and freaking LOVE the topic. These two factors provided great synergy between you two. There is absolutely NO way a "pro journalist" (turns head and expectorates in total disgust) could ever have made a video these worthy and detailed. This video was simply FANTASTIC.
Dude! Great job getting an interview with Professor Meng. Please Please ask her back for another interview. I think your channel's deep dive into state-of the-art battery technology helped clarify that there is so much more room for EVs to gain a significant competitive advantage over ICE vehicles. I hope you can get her back to discuss battery research optimized for grid base storage. Keep up the wonderful work! Wow - $65/kW-hr means a 200 mile range compact car with a 50 kW-hr pack can cost less than a Toyota Corolla!
Sure thing! I think she's up for another interview. Just to clarify, I think she meant $65/kwh at the cell level, which is $100/kwh at the pack level. I'm guessing below $70kwh at the pack level will be Tesla's next target though. 😀
A simply terrific interview. Superb questions. Shirley is a top leader in this industry and wonderful to hear from her directly. Thank you both for doing this first class interview.
What a fantastic video. Thank you both. The exciting part for me was having validation that Nano Silicon is the answer because HPQ SILICON has developed a cost efficient way to produce spherical nano silicon and they said they can tailor the size to suit the client. This is exciting because from what I understand cost has always been the limiting factor for not using nano silicon. It will be exciting to see what Tesla can do with it!
Love these videos! Thanks for uploading deep dives into hard to compile/understand topics. RUclips is often surface level and sensational. This is very informative.
Simple. Understated respect. LOTS of research. An exceptional (Imo) ability to understand and describe the concepts in "words of one syllable" (or as near as possible). Jordan, you may 🤭, but it's what I see.
This is absolutely amazing! I don’t know how your viewer demographic is, but as a mechanical engineering postgrad, this sort of content is exactly what im looking for.
As someone with a masters in creative writing, I'm barely hanging on through most of Jordan's videos, haha. But I'm willing to bet there are many other viewers for whom this challenging new information, and not just review. One of Jordan's greatest strengths is making things more understandable.
@@adrianfortmoviereviewsbook9821 You are not alone 😂. I've tried watching videos from a few months back to relearn things that had slipped. I had to rewind and replay a few times.
Dang!! One of the best interviews ever on battery technology. I love how you react on the passionate expose of professor Meng with a stoic ‘very exiting’. You rock man!
First thoughts. (Started taking notes at 20:00) 1) WOW! 2) 21:20.... $65!! (Even beat *my* "optimistic" prediction!) 3) 25:40.... Lithium Sulphur 2021 (lab? Production testing?) 4) 37:00 ... Batt/ Cap hybrid (larger vehicles)..... Skeleton interview??? 5) 38:09 .... Confirmed targets 400/500 Wh/kg 6) 39:15.... High Lithium cathode = 400Wh/kg 7) 41:00 .... *Get a message to Elon! Shirley on battery day* !! 8) 42:15... *Nice Compliment* ! Don't let it go to your head!! 😁 ...... Don't know about Tesla, but *Your* stock just went up! 😁🤭 You do know this is going to be plagiarized all over YT!?
HAHAHA! My head shall get no bigger than it already is, lol. She was throwing so much into the conversation that I didn't get to clarify the bounds of that $65 dollar figure. It might be the cell level for Roadrunner? Sulfur is a ways out. However, if they can show any progress on par with what they are doing with Lithium Metal, it will be huge. Lithium Metal with Sulfur would be beast mode! 🤔 For large vehicles, a hybrid system makes more sense! Hmmm, or would that be the other way around. I'm not sure. It sounds like 400 is in the bag for 2025 Tesla vehicles (3-4 years plus Elon time). If so....holy sheeet. Yeah, I hope all the email she gets won't dissuade her from future interviews, lol.
@@thelimitingfactor I was hoping for $85 at cell level. It would reinforce my belief that Roadrunner will be the primary cell for automotive applications......? Sulphur, I agree. The combination? 👍 "400"? Still expect 300+ soon. As long as one of the emails she gets is from Elon.....😁
Best interview i have seen in quite some time. Look forward to re watching this video a few times over as there was soo much great content to absorb. Shirley is awesome.
I feel like this interview you really have improved your scheduling and question asking. I got so much information out of this interview, and it felt like it went smoothly. You gave Dr. Meng tons of time to really talk, and asked really helpful questions. I understand the scope of battery tech a lot better thanks to this interview. You're awesome! And also, big thanks to Dr. Meng for doing this interview for us!
Thanks man! Nothing really changed on my end - it all has to do with the chemistry between the interviewer and interviewee and the subject matter and even how each of our days is going. This is what makes interviewing so interesting but also so variable.
The best takeaway: ‘if you are an optimistic person: we have 30 years of time. If you are a pessimistic person: we have 20 years of time’ There’s a huge portion of us watching this video that will be alive during the point-of-no-return tipping point. Amazing and frightening at the same time
Man good job, I have seen Shirley Meng's name pop up quite a few times but haven't seen her talk. Very informative interview to say the least, thanks for having her on.
I watch all your video’s. Having Shirley Meng on was outa this world. She had my complete attention and her enthusiasm is contagious. Knowing she’s waiting for Battery day too gives me hope for some great news. Thanks for this
What a wonderful video/interview! I not only really loved all the insights and perspectives she shared, but also her energy! Dedicating her life to making the world a better place. People like her should be the ones we should support and consider the true celebrities of our societies.
Well done Jordan, obviously a great coup to get an interview with Dr Meng but also on your interview skills which have definitely improved over this series of videos. I appreciate that I know a lot more about what I don’t know now, thank you.
Fantastic you got Shirley, so jealous. Somehow I missed this and just found it now. An amazing woman! I have met and studied with a few exceptional women in engineering and I feel it’s always a pity more high school ladies don’t feel it’s something great to get into.
Amazing talk, I hope that her ideas would soon turned into a real commercial high energy density anode. Because it’s working and I’ve designed a composite anode which was believed to be impossible but finally worked. Every task can be achieved if someone is persistent and patient.
Great interview and chock full of new insights that I had not even considered previously. Truly mind blowing and inspring!. Her comments about driving down hill and linking the loss of regenerative power because the batteries could not store all the spike of power quickly enough struck a responsive chord in me. I had stumbled across another video recently that suggested as well that regenerative braking feeding ultra capacitors which in turn could then feed into the battery system seems like a possible idea. Not sure about cost/benefits though. One other thing she mentioned, which is of interest to me as a Tesla stockholder, is that Elon may already be at or belong $65/kwh. Wow!
I did not understand the explanation. Of course what carries the charge is still the lithium. But if the accepting matrix were 10x more effective in silicon, then that portion of the battery can be made that much smaller... no?
@@earnmyturns6305 Think of it this way. There are 6 parts to the internals of a battery (cathode, anode, electrolyte, Al foil, copper foil, shell). In order to get 10x energy density, all of those parts would each have to be 10x more energy dense. Making only one of them 10x only doubles or triples energy density. But, in reality, it doesn't actually double or triple because there are even more factors. I've done other videos that explain why Si loses energy density...like the moonshot video.
GREAT interview. This helped answer a lot of questions I had as well as the future for Graphite as there seems to be some views that it's not something that will be around very long. MYTH....great to see it's in the future. Keep up the great work, very much appreciated!
I learned about her through your video before I realized she's a professor in my department lol. A year later, I just finished taking her thermodynamics class
Fabulous interview! Once again great work. She seemed to enjoy speaking with you and saw high quality questions and acknowledged the high quality of your previous content. Thanks for producing it. My wife and I are of course fans.
I think one of the obstacles to a pure lithium anode is the constant re-plating which inevitably leads to dendrites,this problem must be solved and is a fundamental limitation to the system because plating will always selectively plate on the sharpest point and there by increase the length of the point hence the dendrite problem but there is a solution and that is to go with it rather than stop it and the way to do that is to have millions of sharp points on the anode so the inevitable dendrites will be so small they will hardly exist.
🤔 🧐 lots of sandbagging and under promising!!! Her excitement is quite obvious and hard to contain 😍 My gut feeling tells me we are in for a treat at battery day 🥰 Thank you Jordan for your efforts and for sharing this awesome interview 🙏 really appreciated
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Wow you got Shirley Meng. I’ve heard her name so often and never heard seen or heard her this is a treat for me. Thank you
Shirley Meng has several great RUclips videos about batteries, well worth watching!
Sunny Chu Thank you I had no idea cheers
Shirley Meng - a hero working to save the planet with energy storage! More power to you Shirley!
39:25 Shirley Meng: My goal in life: EV exceeding range of ICE vehicles, with 400Wh/kg.
Ding ding ding! Thank you Shirley 🙏 You’ve got this ✊
Two weeks before Battery Day ... and you score an extremely rare interview with Shirley Meng! You sir, truly, are a friggin' Rock Star!!!
hehehe
I was thinking more like James Taylor than Robert Plant....?
😁
@@rogerstarkey5390 LOL ... hey, who said "up on the roof" doesn't make you a rock star?
What a wonderful interview. I enjoy the passion she has for the future.
We must not let her defect to the CCP
@@charlech Duh She would only be going home
Superb guest professor. Almost all female engineers in America are foreign born. America culture just kills the science bug in our native born females, ..... just shameful.
raniera stevens: That’s what I thought as soon as I saw that “defection” comment. As with almost all female engineers in America, she is foreign born. In America, our native born women DO NOT PERFORM in science. How shameful!
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Shirley made everything she said crystal clear. She is a very good speaker. Thank you for interviewing her. Lots to be exited about.
It's amazing how quickly you have gone from a tiny upstart channel to the go to place for everything batteries! Great job!
Shirley Meng is a treasure and an inspiration...!!!
Oooh shiiiii you got Shirley! Well this is now the best channel on RUclips right now.
That was a great interview with a real battery expert. Very exciting.
I like her mix of professionalism, enthusiasm, and friendly demeanor.
This is a great channel. The only channel I subscribe to, and the one I understand the least.
I especially enjoyed the end. Very inspiring. And as well as being very knowledgeable, Dr. Meng is very cool. A great interview. Thanks!
Thanks Paul, I appreciate the support. Yeah, she was cool 😀. Very easy to talk to and full of ideas.
More to the point, a"tiny upstart" who "knew nothing about batteries" to way beyond the average comprehension (and I suspect beyond many high level students)
That's such a great combination of super-smart lady and positive thinking about her role in the grand scheme. I hope Shirley gets great students and together they can accomplish their goals. Thank you for conducting the interview, and for the thought-provoking content Jordan.
Loved this so much! Thanks for this interview both of you. It opened my eyes a lot!
Shirly..... I don't know if you will read this but thank you for making the brilliant choices you've made... The efforts of you and your colleagues are very ,much appreciated!!
So amazing that a world class scientist, like Shirley Meng, is also such a pleasant person.
Your viewers and her students are very lucky!
Love Shirley’s enthusiasm for grid storage. When you think about it at the base level, the sun bombards earth in humongous levels and so much gets radiated away into space that if we could store just a few percent more we would all be richer. Until now most of that storage has been in crops and food, we now have a path to so much more potential.
Maybe if we can store enough energy on the sunny side and store it then use it on the dark side, we might even be able to influence global warming a tiny bit!
Shirley Meng is a full of enthusiasm, and hearing her speak about an optimistic future whilst showing restraint (cautious against over promising), makes me excited for the hope of our planet
I can't even express how delighted I am to see Jordan getting guests like this. The caliber of research he's done warrants it, but that's not always enough to get experts like this to share their insight with this series of tubes, or truck if you will, of the interwebs.
😀 I've been biting my tongue for the last 10 days, lol. REALLY wanted to tell everyone.
What a pleasure listening to Professor Meng and her Optimistic hope for the future. I’m in her corner!
One of the best interviews! Shirley is such a smart, positive, and likable woman! 20 years time to save our planet, not more!
I am a student from Pakistan, researching ways to develop a new material for battery anodes. With limited experience and knowledge, I’ve faced many challenges along the way. I decided to dope cerium in zinc sulfide, synthesized the material, and completed its XRD analysis. Now, just days before submitting my thesis and graduating, I came across this channel. I am both thrilled and deeply inspired by Shirley Meng’s work, yet saddened by the reality of a technological gap-almost like a 200-year divide-between our work here and what is happening in developed countries. While I’m uncertain about my own contributions to this field, I have faith that, with visionaries like her and the relentless efforts of dedicated individuals in battery research, truly miraculous achievements lie ahead.
✊♥
Thanks for the comment man!
It's really frsutrating when you don't have the resources or the environment to really show your potential. It took me 20 years before I managed to find my path, lol.
I wish you all the best, and just try to enjoy creating!
Great interview Jordan! I have come across Shirley on some webinars so ....what a scoop! Congrats!
You keep taking ur interviews and content to the next level each time! And we're the better for it!
Thanks! 🔥🤜🤛
She speaks with such passion, I'm impressed, her eye light up like Elon's
It was surprising to me that most of the benefits of silicon already come with adding 10-20% to the anode, while transitioning to 100% silicon seems way too challenging in relation to the then smaller reward. Thanks for getting this kind of information out there Jordan!
I suspect this is due to to big cathode footprint, and would become more important with a metal cathode.
I love this channel so much! I probably understand like 10% of what is being said but its so cool!
It's okay, that's probably about how much I understand when I'm talking to researchers, lol.
Meng so impresses me. I feel she must have had a sparse beginning, but got her educational break early on - I'd be curious of her life story. She is a gem of personality & enthusiasm & her birth-graced brilliancy potential must have become visible early on in her education. Amazing & lucky to have teachers like her whose work bears the fruits of her visions!!!
Great interview. Enjoyed the conversation too... wasn’t just Q&A. Loved Shirley’s answer to the last question.
Blown away... again... just 2 days after Sila's Future of Energy whitepaper, everything the content, Shirley, the timing, blown away
It's coming thick and fast! I have to update my Battery Day script every day, lol.
@@thelimitingfactor Love it man, absolutely love it we need more of you in the space
That was wonderful! Made me tear up at the end. I would love to see another interview with her in a year. Make her a regular!
Her comment about graphite and battery demand was the most juicy tidbit for me. It's so true. We're just getting started with electrification and will continue to be battery constrained with no end in sight.
I was really happy to show another side of battery research(ers). More of a human side. It helped so much that she was easy to interview. In due time, will do another interview.
You're a naturally good interviewer but there's something else --you KNOW and freaking LOVE the topic. These two factors provided great synergy between you two. There is absolutely NO way a "pro journalist" (turns head and expectorates in total disgust) could ever have made a video these worthy and detailed. This video was simply FANTASTIC.
Thanks man! 🔥
Great Jordan. Thank you Shirley.
Sixteen months after this interview it is still very useful to review and deepen my understanding of the development of battery technology.
Incredibly insightful interview and responses by Jordan and Shirley!
😊
Dude! Great job getting an interview with Professor Meng. Please Please ask her back for another interview. I think your channel's deep dive into state-of the-art battery technology helped clarify that there is so much more room for EVs to gain a significant competitive advantage over ICE vehicles. I hope you can get her back to discuss battery research optimized for grid base storage. Keep up the wonderful work! Wow - $65/kW-hr means a 200 mile range compact car with a 50 kW-hr pack can cost less than a Toyota Corolla!
Sure thing! I think she's up for another interview. Just to clarify, I think she meant $65/kwh at the cell level, which is $100/kwh at the pack level. I'm guessing below $70kwh at the pack level will be Tesla's next target though. 😀
A simply terrific interview. Superb questions. Shirley is a top leader in this industry and wonderful to hear from her directly. Thank you both for doing this first class interview.
Professor Meng is such a lovely person. And so intelligent as well. A delightful interview. Thank you.
What a fantastic video. Thank you both. The exciting part for me was having validation that Nano Silicon is the answer because HPQ SILICON has developed a cost efficient way to produce spherical nano silicon and they said they can tailor the size to suit the client. This is exciting because from what I understand cost has always been the limiting factor for not using nano silicon. It will be exciting to see what Tesla can do with it!
Love these videos! Thanks for uploading deep dives into hard to compile/understand topics. RUclips is often surface level and sensational. This is very informative.
It was a real honor interviewing her and it was really nice to see the community enjoy it!
Great interview congratulations in being persistant and accurate and getting the interview with Prof Meng
Top interview, how do you get these guys, they are the knowledge holders. Well done.
Simple.
Understated respect.
LOTS of research.
An exceptional (Imo) ability to understand and describe the concepts in "words of one syllable" (or as near as possible).
Jordan, you may 🤭, but it's what I see.
This is absolutely amazing! I don’t know how your viewer demographic is, but as a mechanical engineering postgrad, this sort of content is exactly what im looking for.
Mostly engineers I think, lol
As someone with a masters in creative writing, I'm barely hanging on through most of Jordan's videos, haha. But I'm willing to bet there are many other viewers for whom this challenging new information, and not just review. One of Jordan's greatest strengths is making things more understandable.
@@adrianfortmoviereviewsbook9821 You are not alone 😂. I've tried watching videos from a few months back to relearn things that had slipped. I had to rewind and replay a few times.
@@thelimitingfactor
Regarding "replays"
That makes me feel much better!
Or, at least, "less inadequate"...😁
The Limiting Factor does a computer engineer count?
Dang!! One of the best interviews ever on battery technology. I love how you react on the passionate expose of professor Meng with a stoic ‘very exiting’. You rock man!
Very exciting content! Can’t wait for the future! Thanks Shirley!! Thanks Jordan!
First thoughts.
(Started taking notes at 20:00)
1) WOW!
2) 21:20.... $65!! (Even beat *my* "optimistic" prediction!)
3) 25:40.... Lithium Sulphur 2021 (lab? Production testing?)
4) 37:00 ... Batt/ Cap hybrid (larger vehicles)..... Skeleton interview???
5) 38:09 .... Confirmed targets 400/500 Wh/kg
6) 39:15.... High Lithium cathode = 400Wh/kg
7) 41:00 .... *Get a message to Elon! Shirley on battery day* !!
8) 42:15... *Nice Compliment* !
Don't let it go to your head!! 😁
......
Don't know about Tesla, but *Your* stock just went up!
😁🤭
You do know this is going to be plagiarized all over YT!?
HAHAHA! My head shall get no bigger than it already is, lol.
She was throwing so much into the conversation that I didn't get to clarify the bounds of that $65 dollar figure. It might be the cell level for Roadrunner?
Sulfur is a ways out. However, if they can show any progress on par with what they are doing with Lithium Metal, it will be huge. Lithium Metal with Sulfur would be beast mode!
🤔 For large vehicles, a hybrid system makes more sense! Hmmm, or would that be the other way around. I'm not sure.
It sounds like 400 is in the bag for 2025 Tesla vehicles (3-4 years plus Elon time). If so....holy sheeet.
Yeah, I hope all the email she gets won't dissuade her from future interviews, lol.
@@thelimitingfactor
I was hoping for $85 at cell level.
It would reinforce my belief that Roadrunner will be the primary cell for automotive applications......?
Sulphur, I agree.
The combination? 👍
"400"?
Still expect 300+ soon.
As long as one of the emails she gets is from Elon.....😁
@@thelimitingfactor $65!!!! Great I was speculating $75 or lower based on Semi prices. Note to self. Get more $TSLA.
@@srikanna4597
I hope you timed it right! (TSLA)
@@rogerstarkey5390 Doesn't really matter in the long run, but yeah. $382
Best interview i have seen in quite some time. Look forward to re watching this video a few times over as there was soo much great content to absorb. Shirley is awesome.
Fantastic interview. And what an uplifting personality. Her optimism and enthusiasm is infectious.
Shirley is such an inspirational yet humble leader in battery research! This is amazing! Thank you for making this happen!
Graphite curiosity brought me here. So glad I found this priceless interview. Sincere thanks to both of you.
Thanks for the great interview, Professor Shirley explains the complex ideas very well and makes them a lot more understandable.
Jordan, what a "scoop"! An incredibly informative interview, with a world class expert, who is a wonderful communicator. An honour - thank you, Eamon
Thanks for the support Eamon!
I feel like this interview you really have improved your scheduling and question asking. I got so much information out of this interview, and it felt like it went smoothly. You gave Dr. Meng tons of time to really talk, and asked really helpful questions. I understand the scope of battery tech a lot better thanks to this interview. You're awesome! And also, big thanks to Dr. Meng for doing this interview for us!
Thanks man! Nothing really changed on my end - it all has to do with the chemistry between the interviewer and interviewee and the subject matter and even how each of our days is going. This is what makes interviewing so interesting but also so variable.
The best takeaway: ‘if you are an optimistic person: we have 30 years of time. If you are a pessimistic person: we have 20 years of time’
There’s a huge portion of us watching this video that will be alive during the point-of-no-return tipping point. Amazing and frightening at the same time
What an insightful and interesting interview. Thank you so much for your efforts in bringing this more into the mainstream.
VERY informative. The intellectual joy you felt speaking with Shirley was obvious. Your best interview to date.
Man good job, I have seen Shirley Meng's name pop up quite a few times but haven't seen her talk. Very informative interview to say the least, thanks for having her on.
Apart from being a leading researcher, she's such a nice person! I'm impressed.
I watch all your video’s. Having Shirley Meng on was outa this world. She had my complete attention and her enthusiasm is contagious. Knowing she’s waiting for Battery day too gives me hope for some great news. Thanks for this
What a wonderful video/interview! I not only really loved all the insights and perspectives she shared, but also her energy! Dedicating her life to making the world a better place. People like her should be the ones we should support and consider the true celebrities of our societies.
Amen to that! These are the people at the front of the train. The locamotives.
Well done Jordan, obviously a great coup to get an interview with Dr Meng but also on your interview skills which have definitely improved over this series of videos. I appreciate that I know a lot more about what I don’t know now, thank you.
Fantastic you got Shirley, so jealous. Somehow I missed this and just found it now. An amazing woman! I have met and studied with a few exceptional women in engineering and I feel it’s always a pity more high school ladies don’t feel it’s something great to get into.
Thanks for setting up this interview. Shirley Meng is great; I would love to be a 20 year old who stumbled into her 101 class.
Great bubbly inflection she has, nice how excited she is when communicating.
Thank you very much for getting us that interview with Shirley
You're most welcome!
That was great. It felt like a mini battery class. It really gave me some valuable insight into the state of battery tech. Thank you both.
Amazing talk, I hope that her ideas would soon turned into a real commercial high energy density anode. Because it’s working and I’ve designed a composite anode which was believed to be impossible but finally worked. Every task can be achieved if someone is persistent and patient.
Wow she's awesome ! I can listen to her for hours explaining batteries :)
Thank you! you both are so passionate into battery tech, and Shirley add so much clear information both hollistic and in-depth key points.
Great interview and chock full of new insights that I had not even considered previously. Truly mind blowing and inspring!.
Her comments about driving down hill and linking the loss of regenerative power because the batteries could not store all the spike of power quickly enough struck a responsive chord in me. I had stumbled across another video recently that suggested as well that regenerative braking feeding ultra capacitors which in turn could then feed into the battery system seems like a possible idea. Not sure about cost/benefits though. One other thing she mentioned, which is of interest to me as a Tesla stockholder, is that Elon may already be at or belong $65/kwh. Wow!
This was amazing 🙌 Thank you Jordan & Shirley
You killed it as usual Jordan! Shirley has fantastic insights as a leader in the field. Great stuff you two!
🤜🤛🔥
SCOOP!!
(Demonstrates your growing reputation!)
hehehehe 😁
What a coup to get Shirley. And great interview - your style puts your guests at ease.
🙏😀
Finally, the hype of “ten times increase in energy density” deflated with simple basic chemistry at the very beginning. Thank you.
Yeah, it gets frustrating doesn't it!
I did not understand the explanation. Of course what carries the charge is still the lithium. But if the accepting matrix were 10x more effective in silicon, then that portion of the battery can be made that much smaller... no?
@@earnmyturns6305 Think of it this way. There are 6 parts to the internals of a battery (cathode, anode, electrolyte, Al foil, copper foil, shell). In order to get 10x energy density, all of those parts would each have to be 10x more energy dense.
Making only one of them 10x only doubles or triples energy density. But, in reality, it doesn't actually double or triple because there are even more factors. I've done other videos that explain why Si loses energy density...like the moonshot video.
GREAT interview. This helped answer a lot of questions I had as well as the future for Graphite as there seems to be some views that it's not something that will be around very long. MYTH....great to see it's in the future. Keep up the great work, very much appreciated!
This lady deserves a Nobel prize!
Great interview. It's always interesting listening to an expert in the field. Thanks!
Big score getting such a qualified guest.
Best interview on RUclips. So insightful and exciting. Thanks both
Prof. Shirley Meng is truly inspiring. Thank you for this interview 🙂
Great to see a Professor talking about stuff that is likely to be commercialized, not just lab samples.
Outstanding interview, Shirley Meng was awesome! Well done!
Jordan , one of your best.A very good interview. Thanks.
Another great video/interview Jordan (and Shirley)! Thanks for doing this and all your videos.
Sure thing David! I always appreciate your support.
Shirley Meng is my new hero. So great!
Super great interview!! Great questions! Loved it really! Thank you very much, the both off you! Feeling the excitement!!!
I learned about her through your video before I realized she's a professor in my department lol. A year later, I just finished taking her thermodynamics class
Really good stuff here. I learned a lot and am excited about silicon anodes!
Fantastic, for me, to finally see an interview with this very important person. Thank you.
Fabulous interview! Once again great work. She seemed to enjoy speaking with you and saw high quality questions and acknowledged the high quality of your previous content. Thanks for producing it. My wife and I are of course fans.
You're most welcome Paul, and thanks for your support!
OMG WOW! Literally one of THE researchers on the planet at the cutting edge of battery research! Fantastic!
I think one of the obstacles to a pure lithium anode is the constant re-plating which inevitably leads to dendrites,this problem must be solved and is a fundamental limitation to the system because plating will always selectively plate on the sharpest point and there by increase the length of the point hence the dendrite problem but there is a solution and that is to go with it rather than stop it and the way to do that is to have millions of sharp points on the anode so the inevitable dendrites will be so small they will hardly exist.
wow that was outstanding!
Thank you both for your time and insight
🤔 🧐 lots of sandbagging and under promising!!!
Her excitement is quite obvious and hard to contain 😍
My gut feeling tells me we are in for a treat at battery day 🥰
Thank you Jordan for your efforts and for sharing this awesome interview 🙏 really appreciated
Sure thing! Thanks for the support! 🤜🤛🔥
So much rich information here. Thank Ya'll!!!
Another great interview. Makes me want to get back into engineering again.
You are producing incredible content, just wanted to say thank you. This was a great interview. 👍
Sure thing Eric! And thanks
Excellent video, thanks again Jordan.