The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

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People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

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.

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.