Lipsa Nag

Shining light on climate deeptech | Science @MarbleClimate

[INVESTMENT HULK @INVESTMENTSHULK]

NVIDIA IS JUST TAYLOR SWIFT FOR DUDES.

[Lipsa Nag @lipsascience]

@siddharth3 Feel like he was already out of consideration for this job after the New Yorker piece

[Lipsa Nag @lipsascience]

@DhruvComplex @drmtgr Adding this to my reading list @DhruvComplex . Thanks for the rec!

[Lipsa Nag @lipsascience]

@MarbleClimate Love this fam!

[marble @MarbleClimate]

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.

🧵

[Daisy Dunne @daisydunnesci]

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!)

[Lipsa Nag @lipsascience]

@DhruvComplex @geoffnegiar Mimi Ramen is amazing @geoffnegiar ! It’s on Rue decartes

[Evelina Stoikou @EvelinaStoikou]

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.⬇️

[Lipsa Nag @lipsascience]

Not the type of climate I usually post about, but equally important!

[nature @Nature]

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

[Lipsa Nag @lipsascience]

Look forward to seeing the new batch of @Breakthrough Energy Fellows!

[marble @MarbleClimate]

📣 @Breakthrough Energy Fellows applications for its 2024 cohort!

And congrats 🥳 to all new and past innovation & business fellows!

How does the programme work?

[Benjamin Tincq @btincq]

⛏️ 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:

[Shayle Kann @shaylekann]

"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

[marble @MarbleClimate]

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 ...

[Lipsa Nag @lipsascience]

So excited for attophysics winning this year’s Nobel prize!!! Look forward to atto second spectroscopy becoming mainstream too 🔦

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

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 possible to isolate a single light pulse that lasted 650 attoseconds.

#NobelPrize

[Lipsa Nag @lipsascience]

Cool post by @rrhoover on the venture studio model featuring the one and only - @MarbleClimate ! 🙏

[Ryan Hoover @rrhoover]

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...

[Alex Klotz @AlexanderRKlotz]

Everything, Everywhere, All On One Plot

[Lipsa Nag @lipsascience]

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? 🫣

[marble @MarbleClimate]

Chemical Engineers and Electrochemists will save the world.

[Lipsa Nag @lipsascience]

We’re building a super low-energy DAC system. Capturing Gts never looked better!!

[marble @MarbleClimate]

#DirectAirCapture is too energy intensive. It will never reach gigaton scale. How many times did you hear that?

Well ...

[Dan Hockenmaier @danhockenmaier]

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 importantly because they help writers think more clearly.

3. As you become more senior, it is very dangerous to only review work from other people. You must keep writing yourself.

[Lipsa Nag @lipsascience]

Woke up today, in a world of gray,
Numbers on my mind, equations lead the way.🎶🎶

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

Taylor Swift as math functions, for all the Swifties. A thread.

y = -x