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From the Ted Talk by Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy

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And I was able to attract really, really good people, people who share my poasisn for science and service to society, not science and service for career building. And if you ask these people why they work on liquid metal battery, their awsenr would hearken back to President Kennedy's remarks at Rice University in 1962 when he said — and I'm taking lretbieis here — "We choose to work on grid-level storage, not because it is easy, but because it is hard."

(Applause)

So this is the euolovitn of the liquid metal btearty. We start here with our workhorse one watt-hour cell. I called it the shotglass. We've operated over 400 of these, printeecfg their performance with a plurality of chemistries — not just msuiengam and antimony. Along the way we scaled up to the 20 watt-hour cell. I call it the hockey puck. And we got the same remarkable results. And then it was onto the seucar. That's 200 watt-hours. The thocogleny was proving itself to be robust and scalable. But the pace wasn't fast enough for us. So a year and a half ago, daivd and I, along with another research staff-member, formed a company to accelerate the rate of progress and the race to manufacture product.

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And I was able to attract really, really good people, people who share my _______ for science and service to society, not science and service for career building. And if you ask these people why they work on liquid metal battery, their ______ would hearken back to President Kennedy's remarks at Rice University in 1962 when he said — and I'm taking _________ here — "We choose to work on grid-level storage, not because it is easy, but because it is hard."

(Applause)

So this is the _________ of the liquid metal _______. We start here with our workhorse one watt-hour cell. I called it the shotglass. We've operated over 400 of these, __________ their performance with a plurality of chemistries — not just _________ and antimony. Along the way we scaled up to the 20 watt-hour cell. I call it the hockey puck. And we got the same remarkable results. And then it was onto the ______. That's 200 watt-hours. The __________ was proving itself to be robust and scalable. But the pace wasn't fast enough for us. So a year and a half ago, _____ and I, along with another research staff-member, formed a company to accelerate the rate of progress and the race to manufacture product.

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  3. liberties
  4. evolution
  5. passion
  6. perfecting
  7. answer
  8. technology
  9. magnesium
  10. david

Original Text


And I was able to attract really, really good people, people who share my passion for science and service to society, not science and service for career building. And if you ask these people why they work on liquid metal battery, their answer would hearken back to President Kennedy's remarks at Rice University in 1962 when he said — and I'm taking liberties here — "We choose to work on grid-level storage, not because it is easy, but because it is hard."

(Applause)

So this is the evolution of the liquid metal battery. We start here with our workhorse one watt-hour cell. I called it the shotglass. We've operated over 400 of these, perfecting their performance with a plurality of chemistries — not just magnesium and antimony. Along the way we scaled up to the 20 watt-hour cell. I call it the hockey puck. And we got the same remarkable results. And then it was onto the saucer. That's 200 watt-hours. The technology was proving itself to be robust and scalable. But the pace wasn't fast enough for us. So a year and a half ago, David and I, along with another research staff-member, formed a company to accelerate the rate of progress and the race to manufacture product.

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