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Chiang: Room-temperature aqueous electrolysis can reduce iron oxide to solid iron
“We have iron oxide in an alkaline electrolyte. If we bring that in contact with a metal electrode, we can reduce solid iron oxide to solid Iron metal. And that that then, you know, brings down the thermal load tremendously.”
Chiang: Chemist intuition has discovered more battery cathodes than AI models
“If you were to look at the number of, for example, lithium-ion battery cathodes that have been discovered, truly discovered through this process, compared to those that were still developed by a You know, good solid state chemist's intuition. I think that that…”
Chiang: Four electron volts equals 4,000 to 6,500 Kelvin in thermal energy
“And it turns out that four electron volts is an absolutely enormous amount of energy. If we were to compare it to, for example the heat of vaporization of water, it's about 10 times that, right? If we were to compare it to just Temperature terms. Thermal energ…”