Extreme Electrochemistry for a Sustainable Future - Ep155: Prof Donald Sadoway
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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2024
- Michael returns to talk with legendary educator and inventor, Donald Sadoway, Professor Emeritus of Materials Chemistry at MIT. After earning his PhD in chemical metallurgy in 1977 at the University of Toronto, he joined the faculty at MIT where he spent 44 years. For 16 of those, he taught 3.091 (Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry)-and his animated lectures, peppered with references to music, art, and literature-doubtless contributed to the subject’s popularity. Among the many accolades bestowed on Professor Sadoway in his 44 years as a teacher and researcher at MIT was a compliment by Bill Gates: “best chemistry lessons anywhere. Unbelievable.” In 2012, for the invention of the liquid metal battery, he was named by Time magazine one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.” He has founded several hard tech startups, including Ambri, Avanti Battery Company, Pure Lithium and Boston Metal.
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Review Donald's 2012 TED talk, "The Missing Link to Renewable Energy" here: www.ted.com/talks/donald_sado...
Explore Avanti Battery Company's tech here: avanti.energy
Explore Ambri's tech here: ambri.com
Explore Pure Lithium's tech here: www.purelithium.io
Explore Boston Metal's tech here: www.bostonmetal.com
Explore Sadoway Labs' research here: sadowaylabs.org
Take Prof Sadoway's course, 3.091 - Introduction to Solid State Chemistry - here: ocw.mit.edu/courses/3-091sc-i...
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Consistently good and informative shows! Thank you, Michael.
Dear Michael, it was such a good episode! Sad to see it had to end with some low level EV disinformation. Is your guest not aware that petrol cars are so inefficient that: yes, an EV powered with fossil gas electricity is cleaner (both for the climate and for local air pollution) than a petrol equivalent. I was really expecting you would point this out! 💚⚡️
I had to pay that go - we were already one hour in. I did maths the point that I didn't agree. Otherwise it was a fabulous conversation, I thought.
Great content. No surprise about Form even before you talk hydrogen byproduct management.
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Great. To get more constant power for these electrical chemistry processes, do we need to install some street heat networks with large scale heat storage to use the more intermittent fraction of renewable electricity supply? @AndyFrewX
If the processes generate waste heat, yes, it would be good to find some way of using it. But they kind of have to work reliably first :-)
I want to know what Ambri is doing right now.
When will these batteries get tested in a commercial environment.
Where are they being tested today and how are they performing?
Enough waffling around.