Charles Musgrave

@CoryMSimon @DOGE_NSF Optimize how you run your finances as a PI. Get enough grants to pay your summer salary or spread academic year salary over 12 months. Working with a PhD student every day is probably not best way to prepare them for an independent career. Spend that time writing. proposals.

the uni charges tuition over the summer when the student isn't taking any courses, meanwhile I am not getting paid by the uni, despite working every day, with the PhD student. I don't think the tuition money is going to me. also, my salary is the same to first-order, whether I have zero or ten PhD students. (did get a teaching release though for having more grant $, which is nice. but it's from a ridiculous course load to a standard course load.)

🚀my suggestions to boost American STEM to @DOGE_NSF: * scientific publications open-access; cap on cost/paper to mitigate excessive extraction from scientific publishers. * research proposals 3-5 pages, not 15 pages. (researchers spend too much time writing proposals rather than doing research.) * simplify proposal requirements; the proposal and award policies and procedures guide is absurdly 215 pages. * try to distinguish training from research. this might re-allocate $ to more permanent researchers rather than fresh-start PhD students who only work on a problem for five years while distracted by courses and exams. * reduce excessive overhead and tuition charged (even when students are not taking courses) by universities. * remove broader impacts requirement for every proposal, which ~requires outreach. some profs. are specialized, skilled, and excited about this, some are not. have special, optional supplement grants for these activities. * a cap on proposals per PI. * eliminate the awful NSF SciEnv to format our CV. * yearly reporting burden could be reduced and simplified.

@CoryMSimon @Andrew_S_Rosen @DOGE_NSF Also uploaded bio sketch and C&P to FastLane before SciEnv but now SciEnv creates the docs. I look at both bio sketch and Google Scholar to see relevant background and productivity.

fair, SciENcv is an equalizer and standardizer for the CV. just think it would spare us some time and frustration fiddling with the clunky and buggy interface if they just said 'upload a 2 page CV'. wonder if reviewers look at the bio-sketch anyway, or just look at our website/Google Scholar. 🤷‍♂️

@Andrew_S_Rosen @CoryMSimon @DOGE_NSF Me too. Awful, but not as awful as reformatting your bio sketch and C&P every other proposal.

@CoryMSimon @DOGE_NSF I kind of like ScienCV because it's so quick and while the output is awful, at least everyone's is equally awful. 😂

@Wangchem @PolymChem Congrats Chen, Caleb and Grant - nice work!

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@LimitingThe @RandyWKirk1 What about TerraPower's reactor in Kemmerer?

I just checked out the article I agree it may have a place, but as it stands today, there are zero nuclear reactors under construction in the U.S. And, the last one took 10 years to build (Vogtle) That is, it's going to be a small part of the overall equation in the next decade.

When I script my videos, the process is similar to building a court case. My goal is to build an argument around an idea and see how it holds up to scrutiny. Today I'm researching nuclear power and its relationship to renewables and batteries. Some people argue that batteries and nuclear are somehow in competition with eachother, but they actually appear to be complimentary. That's because nuclear is capital intensive and needs to run constantly to be economic. So when demand is low, it's best to keep the utilisation rate of the nuclear plant high by shunting the energy to a storage system. Then, the energy can be sold at peak demand. That is, batteries will be needed for the major 'zero emissions' technologies: Solar, Wind, and Nuclear.

Honored to call Ed Catmull, co-founder of @Pixar, one of our @UtahCoE alumni. The @uofu and our college played a key role in shaping his extraordinary career. Excited to teach the next generation of engineers inspired by Ed’s legacy and movies!

@Wangchem Great work! So close to being corny though. 🤣

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@ZevCyber @sobieski902 @SawyerMerritt Better comparison is miles of range added per minute. Charging a larger battery takes longer. How big is your Kia battery compared to your Tesla battery? Also, Kia could be accepting higher degradation to allow faster charging.

@Chasmusg @sobieski902 @SawyerMerritt It would be in the consumers' interest if Tesla switched to pouch or prismatic cells so we could have faster charging. My EV6 can charge 40-80% in 11 minutes. Takes 50% longer in my 3 LR AWD. The best charging Tesla is the BYD blade equipped pack in the Y from Berlin.

Here's why, if Tesla can produce dry cathode batteries at scale, it will be a big deal: • Will help Tesla reduce their own costs between 15%-30% (if they can scale), saving a ton of money. • The dry method takes up a lot less space than the wet method that Tesla (and others) have used for years, allowing Tesla to build smaller and more efficient factories. Dry coating process requires fewer preparation steps and equipment, and could result in a 10x smaller factory footprint reduction, and a 10x energy reduction. • Could result in higher density batteries, and potentially more range, but that remains to be seen. • Better for the environment. Figuring out how to produce dry electrode batteries has been one of the toughest problems Tesla has ever worked on, but it appears they made some massive progress recently with the first prototype Cybertruck with in-house dry cathode 4680 cells. If they can figure out how to scale it, and with good yields, it will be a game changer. Last thing I'll note is that various battery companies have been working on the dry method for a while, but all of them have only achieved it at lab or pilot scale (at best). It appears that Tesla feels confident that they can scale this. LG Energy Solution is aiming to commercialize the dry method by 2028, so Tesla could be at scale before anybody else. Time will tell.

@ZevCyber @sobieski902 @SawyerMerritt It helps for all rolled cells but helps more for longer and taller sheets.

@Chasmusg @sobieski902 @SawyerMerritt This is only required due to the larger cell size.

@sobieski902 @ZevCyber @SawyerMerritt Tabless shortens the average conduction path length from anode to cathode, which reduces resistive losses that heat the battery on charging. Also makes a more reliable battery, e.g., better cap-tab contact, not having to flow current through the tab bottleneck, etc.

@ZevCyber @SawyerMerritt Charging performance should increase as the tables design prevents thermal problem (Drew talked about that on battery day). My assumption is that they needs sufficient amount of data linked to these cells which will unlock higher dis-/charging rates via OTA (as seen in the past)

@ZevCyber @SawyerMerritt From Tesla’s pricing/margin strategy over the past 2 years it is clear they are passing on a lot of their cost reductions.

@SawyerMerritt As I have said since battery day, this all benefits Tesla, but doesn't really affect the end consumer. This is good overall and keeps costs in control, but I am more interested in what they can do to boost charging performance from these cells.

@ZevCyber @OnceNotion @SawyerMerritt The dry cathode can be used with LFP or other cathode chemistries.

@OnceNotion @SawyerMerritt Input prices aren't necessarily linked to output prices. Yes, it could reduce price of car, but most likely ends in higher margins for Tesla. The benefit is mostly Tesla here. I suspect LFP cells, for example, are equally as cheap.

@denverbitcoin @BoostedBoiKyle @elonmusk The energy has to be dissipated. The energy is stiffness times the distance of the deformation. So, stiffer means less deformation, and lower probability of intrusion into the passenger compartment.

@BoostedBoiKyle @elonmusk Not sure that rigidity is a good thing….the force from impact has to go somewhere, maybe to the people inside? Cars crumpling and absorbing insane amount of force is a good thing.

I think I’m the first person to get ahold of a totaled cybertruck. It was t-boned by a ford edge. @elonmusk these things can take a hit!

@splosives @denverbitcoin @BoostedBoiKyle @elonmusk 💯

@denverbitcoin @BoostedBoiKyle @elonmusk Not for side impacts, the material (space to decelerate) isn’t there. Stop intrusion above all else.

@denverbitcoin @BoostedBoiKyle @elonmusk Not in a side impact collision. If you have a large crumple zone when hit in the side, you get penetration into the passenger compartment and direct impact to passengers.

@jamesdouma @MxJ61 Garbage bins? Ransack mine once or twice a year in Colorado.

@MxJ61 This is Los Angeles. Some fruit trees but no berries or rivers. Lots of oak trees so maybe acorns? The deer are definitely into the acorns.

It is an absolute mystery to me where these guys find enough food to keep up their weight.

@MRC_SLC @AcksOfSyn @slcpd @slcmoves @slcmayor @slcCouncil And deserved. Handled yourself well!

@AcksOfSyn @slcpd @slcmoves @slcmayor @slcCouncil Apology accepted.

This is what bicyclists have to endure every day in Salt Lake City! @slcpd @slcmoves @slcmayor @slcCouncil

@TeslaBoomerMama Welcome, Alexandra!

@loganemitchell @CityCastSLC Will do and looking forward to it!

@Chasmusg @CityCastSLC Happy to chat! Look me up at Utah Clean Energy and send me an email.

Utah's energy policy is off track, leaning into coal while costs skyrocket. We're in for a recking & now Rocky Mtn Power proposes +30% increase in electricity rates, partly due to climate-fueled wildfire costs. I explained this on @CityCastSLC last week: twitter.com/loganemitchell…