Amprius: Cutting-Edge Battery Technology for Electric Vehicles and Utility-Scale Energy Storage
In the video I’ve linked, the young CEO of a high-tech start-up called Amprius, Chinese-born Yi Cui, talking about his background (Ph.D. from Harvard, currently a professor at Stanford), but, more importantly, providing a summary of his passion: batteries built around nanotechnology and other concepts in cutting-edge materials science. His command of English is imperfect, but I don’t think anyone can say that about his insight into what’s to come, when he smiles and tells us, “After you get renewable energy, you have to store it. It’s about the potential for society.”
Last week, ex-U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (photo above) joined the board of directors at Amprius, a move that should have us all thinking carefully about the future of energy. Great things are happening all around us.
And, once in a while, good things happen for me as well. At a conference I attended with Dr. Chu about a year ago, I happened to remark on a certain position the main speaker had made. Chu stood up immediately thereafter and said, “The speaker immediately before me has a point.” I couldn’t have been more flattered. He didn’t even say it was a “good point.” But he implied it, didn’t he? 🙂
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I had a pleasant surprise earlier this afternoon that I thought I’d mention. A docent who was leading a small group of us through an exhibition of contemporary art and concepts in modern architecture happened to mention that a certain designer’s works were aimed at minimizing energy in the heating and cooling of our buildings. Better yet, the artist/architect had been trained as a biologist, and had gotten her ideas from the way grasshoppers cool themselves in the hot summer afternoons. 
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Last evening, I had an interesting conversation with a reader that I’d thought I’d share. She asked two good questions:
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