Lipsa Nag
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Shining light on climate deeptech | Science @MarbleClimate
Joined August 2021
True climate innovation starts with people, not ideas. With 2023 about to become the hottest year on record, and uncertainty overshadowing COP28, it’s clear we need solutions now more than ever. 🧵
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NEW: The #COP28 presidency has launched an "Oil and Gas Charter" signed by oil-and-gas companies representing 40% of global production They pledge to 🔥End gas flaring by 2030 🏭"Zero-out" methane emissions 0⃣"align" with net-zero by 2050 But... (see next tweet!)
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The results from @BloombergNEF's 2023 lithium-ion battery price survey are out. Battery prices are back to their declining trajectory, after an unprecedented year of increases in 2022. Average pack prices reached a new record-low of $139/kWh, a 14% decline from last year.⬇️
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Not the type of climate I usually post about, but equally important!
A survey of thousands of US academics has found that the number one reason that women leave faculty positions is poor “workplace climate”, which can encompass discrimination, dysfunctional leadership, a feeling of not fitting in and other problems. More: https://t.co/U27agAZ14z
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Look forward to seeing the new batch of @Breakthrough Energy Fellows!
📣 @Breakthrough Energy Fellows applications for its 2024 cohort! And congrats 🥳 to all new and past innovation & business fellows! How does the programme work?
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⛏️ Copper. Lithium. Graphite. Rare Earths. Nickel. Cobalt. Critical minerals can unlock a shift from consumable fossil fuels to an energy system based on durable metals. Problem:
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"Like the sirens who called Odysseus onto the rocks, the irresistible treasure of waste heat is like a beacon that lures many startups into a shipwreck" -@MichaelEWebber, in an EIP Slack
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It's time to increase the supply of critical minerals. Current pipelines cannot meet the growth of renewables, batteries and the power grid that the world needs for net zero. Which is why ...
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So excited for attophysics winning this year’s Nobel prize!!! Look forward to atto second spectroscopy becoming mainstream too 🔦
2023 physics laureate Pierre Agostini succeeded in producing and investigating a series of consecutive light pulses, in which each pulse lasted just 250 attoseconds. At the same time, his 2023 co-laureate Ferenc Krausz was working with another type of experiment, one that made it
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Cool post by @rrhoover on the venture studio model featuring the one and only - @MarbleClimate ! 🙏
More firms are incubating companies as early-stage valuations rise. A few successes: • Snowflake ($49B mrkt cap) by Sutter Hill Ventures • Affirm ($6B mrkt cap) by HVF Labs • Hims & Hers ($1.3B mrkt cap) by Atomic Our latest Signature Block essay is on venture studios...
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Looking for a chemical engineer to work alongside our incredible team at @MarbleClimate to hardware that solves hard climate problems! Cc @ChEnected if you know anyone? 🫣
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We’re building a super low-energy DAC system. Capturing Gts never looked better!!
#DirectAirCapture is too energy intensive. It will never reach gigaton scale. How many times did you hear that? Well ...
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My experience has repeatedly proven this Paul Graham quote to be true. Three implications: 1. Writing cultures tend to learn faster than those that use slides, dashboards, or other mediums. 2. They learn faster because they present denser information to readers, but even more
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Woke up today, in a world of gray, Numbers on my mind, equations lead the way.🎶🎶
Taylor Swift as math functions, for all the Swifties. A thread. y = -x
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To achieve the world’s climate goals, we need all the tools in the tool kit. Direct Air Capture (DAC) is one of those critical tools, making today’s DOE announcement a major milestone. This piece by @AndreasenJack from @Breakthrough is a great explainer on DAC and why we’ll need
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Last year I wrote Cheaper Energy, Pricier Wires about the relatively unknown and rapidly growing cost of delivering, not generating, electricity. Since then I've received hundreds of emails asking for a deeper dive into the data and its implications.
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1) DOE launched a historic carbon removal purchasing program. This is unprecedented (!!) innovation policy. The gov is going to create a first market for CDR and in the process, set standards for what high-quality carbon removal looks like.
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Professors should not serve as punchbags for the university admins. A story from this article: - Tolu Odumosu submitted for tenure after 5 years at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville). His application was highly supported by the department, but the school rejected it.
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