And I looked around, and I found the closest thing to that, which is at Argonne National Lab. Argonne National Lab, it's one of the 17 national labs. It's outside Chicago. This is the first one.
to be first to make the super battery, as a battery war. Argonne, his team, was at war with China, and he was at war with Wan Gang. And I went to Wan Gang.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. But argonauts still have shells.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. Because argonauts, the octopus can actually come all the way out of the shell, unlike a nautilus, which is like a snail.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. And argonauts do a similar thing.
"Hermes" is powered by ion engines. They throw argon out the back of the ship really fast to get a tiny amount of acceleration. The thing is it doesn't take much reactant mass.
The thing is it doesn't take much reactant mass. So a little argon and a nuclear reactor to power things let us accelerate constantly the whole way there. You'd be amazed how fast you can get going with a tiny acceleration over a long time.
and we can get to that doubling number. Source at Argonne National Lab and others really helped us unravel the protein structure of the virus within--
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. And she would take argonauts that fisherman would catch for her, and she would occasionally catch herself, and she'd place them in these observation chambers.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. New things about argonauts, recently, one guy in Australia found some live ones and discovered that they actually
it's a good thing because in the U.S. we could have a significant impact on energy independence and on carbon footprint. What is one of the major challenges, and this is where Argonne spends a lot of its time, is how to store energy in compact spaces? This is really a chart to give just meant to give you a sense of where we are today and where we need to be.
But the investments and the encouragements and the activities that we've done to those companies-- for instance, like SpaceX, Blue Origin-- that now have rockets that can get up It has trace gases of methane and argon and a whole bunch of other stuff.
And those happen to be volcanic ashes. And those volcanic ashes lend themselves to argon dating. So we can tell, in a precise way, how old these geological strata are by doing potassium argon or argon argon analysis.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. Or other scientist claim to have seen argonauts using their arms to row themselves along, again, on the surface of the sea.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. They see a raft of argonauts drifting past.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. So this debate went on about do argonauts make their shells, or do they steal them?
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. You have to do things like break argonaut shells and see if they can fix them.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. But I'm so obsessed with argonauts when I was writing this chapter.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. All I could see were argonauts.
It's mostly a nuclear lab, but they had-- around the world, there are 12, 20 certified, recognized battery geniuses, and two of them are at Argonne. Their stuff is in the Chevy Volt.
research. Also home of the famous white deer. Dr. Isaacs is professor of the University of Physics in Chicago and he comes from storied career both with Bell Labs and the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne. And so he's going to review for us today some of the basic scientific research and the game-changing energy breakthroughs that are happening right now at Argonne with the goal of finding revolutions in the energy sector, whether that's
Some of the details about the dating of the discoveries. It was done in modern times using the potassium argon method and analyzing the plant and animal fossils found in those layers of rock. These discoveries were originally reported to the scientific world by Doctor JD Whitney, who was the chief government geologist of California.
According to the report, above the skeleton was a thick layer of slate rock that was unbroken. reliable-- radiocarbon dating, potassium argon dating, uranium series dating, zircon fission-track dating--
own range of applications, that investing in good-quality identity and authentication is really important, because that's the only way we will convince people that it's okay And it happened when I went to the -- a laboratory -- Argon National Laboratory.
Welcome, everyone. Today we introduce Dr. Kaizhong Gao from Argonne National Lab. He's currently a principal scientist and group leader in Argonne National Lab, and a senior fellow at Northwestern University, and previous CTO in IBT, which is International Business Technology service.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. He was really keen to figure out whether argonauts were shell makers or basically pirates that stole shells from other creatures.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. who you finally cracked this question of the truth about how argonauts.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. And it will comes down to this picture of an argonaut.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. It was around the time I was writing the argonaut chapter that my publisher at Bloomsbury said that I really had to decide what I what I was going to call the book,
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. So I wanted to call the book "Flight of the Argonauts." Especially with this discovery of how they use air to help them swim under water.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. So I'm now hunting around online for pictures of argonauts, and I found this one.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. And I was still pushing for "Flight of the Argonauts." So we were like, go and do us some argonauts.
to undertake one big task. And one of these Bell Lablets ends up established at Argonne. And the book then takes you inside as they go about, as these scientists starting from scratch at the fundamental level, they discover that they don't even understand the lithium ion
the carbon produced comes from automobiles, you save about 25% of the carbon we produce. So both really good things. We did this. We actually have what we call life cycle analysis at Argonne. We did this for the country. We've also done it for China. So if we did it for the United States, we reduce the carbon footprint by 25%. You could ask the same thing about China.
She was apparently given a Chevrolet wagon as her kind of fish listening station. Went down to the aquarium with his son to go see the argonaut octopus that was washing up-- kind of down-- not the Long Beach Aquarium,
Mollusks range from slugs and snails and squid and octopus. And two slightly stranger things you might not have heard are things like argonauts and sea butterflies and chitons, and weird little things called gastros that live in bottom of the sea, and frankly just look like worms, but they are still mollusks.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. And there's a couple of reasons why I do genuinely think that argonauts are brilliant, brilliant mollusks.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. Victorian times, about the truth behind argonauts and whether or not they make their own shells or whether they steal them from some other animal
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. I think he started it all off actually by claiming to have seen argonauts using their shells as little boats.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. And the other reason why I really wanted to tell the story of argonauts and why they're brilliant is because of this lady
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. And she slowly built up this picture that really did convincingly show that argonauts, yes, they do make their own shells.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. And I was really just so keen to have "Flight of the Argonauts," and argonauts on the front cover.
there's something about s rechargeable battery that turns people into liars. I sat in that lab, Argonne, for two years, finished all that research. I had written 2/3 of the book, embarked on writing the last part.
Cliff: All right. Good afternoon, everyone. We're very pleased to welcome Dr. Eric Isaacs from the Argonne National Laboratory. He's joining us for a green at Google presentation on energy policy and the latest breakthroughs and research to come out of Argonne lab. In case you're not familiar which all of us probably are given our technical backgrounds, Argonne is one of the world's foremost centers physics and materials
Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne. And so he's going to review for us today some of the basic scientific research and the game-changing energy breakthroughs that are happening right now at Argonne with the goal of finding revolutions in the energy sector, whether that's through Thorium or the batteries for the Chevy volts.
these alternative energies? We talk about them; we'd love to see them happen but they're far away from happening yet. So one of the places where we're thinking a lot about this and Cliff introduced me as being the director of Argonne National Labs. I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about national labs, but I just want to tell you how we're different from academia and how we're different from industry in what when he do.
I think we've all made that happen. And now, the challenge is, How do you provide relevance to that information? How do you connect people, community, and Two national labs, Fermi and Argonne. So a lot of tech gets created, but probably more in the invention area rather than in the innovation area.
The only way for them to get there would be to travel through the rest of the circuit. And the circuit was intentionally designed so that electrons would have to cross a glass tube filled with a non conducting gas like argon or xenon. On their own they would not have the energy to get through that gas.
This is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And then you put a little bit, a little bit of something like argon or neon gas inside.
almost four million years ago. The footprints were found in layers of solidified volcanic ash that were dated using the potassium argon method as being 3,700,000 years old. I presented evidence on this case at a meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists