Charles Musgrave

Quantum mechanic, chemical engineer, materials scientist, renewable energy, researcher, educator, cyclist. Dean of Price College of Engineering Univ of Utah

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@CoryMSimon @DOGE_NSF Optimize how you run your finances as a PI. Get enough grants to pay your summer salary or spread academic year salary over 12 months. Working with a PhD student every day is probably not best way to prepare them for an independent career. Spend that time writing. proposals.

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@CoryMSimon @Andrew_S_Rosen @DOGE_NSF Also uploaded bio sketch and C&P to FastLane before SciEnv but now SciEnv creates the docs. I look at both bio sketch and Google Scholar to see relevant background and productivity.

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@Andrew_S_Rosen @CoryMSimon @DOGE_NSF Me too. Awful, but not as awful as reformatting your bio sketch and C&P every other proposal.

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@Wangchem @PolymChem Congrats Chen, Caleb and Grant - nice work!

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@LimitingThe @RandyWKirk1 What about TerraPower's reactor in Kemmerer?

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

Honored to call Ed Catmull, co-founder of @Pixar, one of our @UtahCoE alumni. The @uofu and our college played a key role in shaping his extraordinary career. Excited to teach the next generation of engineers inspired by Ed’s legacy and movies!

[Taylor Randall, UofU President @PresidentUofU]

‘It was amazing’: How the University of Utah shaped Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull’s career. https://t.co/4eZ1pKp7C0

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@Wangchem Great work! So close to being corny though. 🤣

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@ZevCyber @sobieski902 @SawyerMerritt Better comparison is miles of range added per minute. Charging a larger battery takes longer. How big is your Kia battery compared to your Tesla battery? Also, Kia could be accepting higher degradation to allow faster charging.

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@ZevCyber @sobieski902 @SawyerMerritt It helps for all rolled cells but helps more for longer and taller sheets.

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@sobieski902 @ZevCyber @SawyerMerritt Tabless shortens the average conduction path length from anode to cathode, which reduces resistive losses that heat the battery on charging. Also makes a more reliable battery, e.g., better cap-tab contact, not having to flow current through the tab bottleneck, etc.

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@ZevCyber @SawyerMerritt From Tesla’s pricing/margin strategy over the past 2 years it is clear they are passing on a lot of their cost reductions.

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@ZevCyber @OnceNotion @SawyerMerritt The dry cathode can be used with LFP or other cathode chemistries.

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@denverbitcoin @BoostedBoiKyle @elonmusk The energy has to be dissipated. The energy is stiffness times the distance of the deformation. So, stiffer means less deformation, and lower probability of intrusion into the passenger compartment.

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@splosives @denverbitcoin @BoostedBoiKyle @elonmusk 💯

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@denverbitcoin @BoostedBoiKyle @elonmusk Not in a side impact collision. If you have a large crumple zone when hit in the side, you get penetration into the passenger compartment and direct impact to passengers.

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@jamesdouma @MxJ61 Garbage bins? Ransack mine once or twice a year in Colorado.

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@MRC_SLC @AcksOfSyn @slcpd @slcmoves @slcmayor @slcCouncil And deserved. Handled yourself well!

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@TeslaBoomerMama Welcome, Alexandra!

[Charles Musgrave @Chasmusg]

@loganemitchell @CityCastSLC Will do and looking forward to it!