Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
If you want to make something dirt cheap, make it out of dirt–preferably dirt that is locally sourced.
In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.
If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out. We can't just drill our way out. We can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned, American way. We're going to invent our way out, working together.
With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.
How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.
The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.
[Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.
Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been.