The International Energy Agency’s bombshell new report on renewables has incredibly good news. For example, solar is undergoing a mega boom & may surpass coal by 2027 Below is a 🧵 on genuinely good news on green energy from the IEA & beyond (1/22) Cc: Noah Smith 🐇 Jesse D. Jenkins Ramez Naam David Wallace-Wells

The car on the left has a gas engine and gets 20 MPG. It has 21 miles of electric range. It gets a $7,500 EV Tax Credit. The car on the right is ELECTRIC ONLY and gets 113 MPEe. It has 330 miles of range. IT DOES NOT GET A $7,500 EV TAX CREDIT.

Tesla reported 18% QoQ delivery growth, but some consider this a miss because Wall Street expected ~22% QoQ growth. YoY growth was 40% and would have been 48% if Shanghai wasn't shut down in Q2 due to Covid losing ~70K of production - close to guidance of 50% CAGR. Elon Musk

A full tank of gas weighs ~100 lbs on average, and an average car will use over 50,000 lbs of gas over its lifetime. Ni, Cu, Co and Li are not minerals... and are all highly recyclable.

Maybe should add the ~10 kg of lead that is in an average ICE car?

Excellent and useful review of computational thermodynamics if materials.

I had a very similar letter. Same school, degree and department. But stipend was about 1/3rd of this and letter was from the last century!

My take - "next gen" Tesla model that uses parallel convergent manufacturing and other advanced manufacturing processes will start production this year. It's called "cyber truck". Sandy Munro

So tragic to lose such a promising young man like this. Stopped by where he was hit today and said a prayer for Magnus’s family.

Another example of linear extrapolation to forecast an exponentially increasing market.

The U has broken ground for the new John and Marcia Price Computing and Engineering Building. The Price Computing and Engineering Building will house the Kahlert School of Computing and programs ranging from artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. bit.ly/4aoUaPW

In this work, we show that a network polymer can be made soil compostable when it contains compostable linkages in the backbone. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

This is great! I wonder what it looks like for those who earn engineering degrees.

This is the way.

Musgrave group photo from our party🎉yesterday. Last group gathering at our home in Colorado. Thank you 🙏 to all the Colorado Musgrave group PhD students and postdocs over the past 16 years - it's been my privilege to associate with such wonderful people. 🩷

Honored to call Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, one of our John and Marcia Price College of Engineering 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!