Learning how to write better from a professor is… like learning how to catch fish from a grizzly bear. The steps require 10s of instruction, and then the fact that at the end of the day they have a pile of fish and you are just wet and tired… you clearly aren’t doing it the […]
Establishing practical estimates for city-integrated solar PV and wind
Lee’s Synopsis: Huge void remains between what different academic experts estimate for city-scale solar PV and wind power generation rates In response to our previous eLetter [blog, journal], experts from UC Berkeley and Stanford replied with this. Below is our response. Our goal was to illustrate how what could be attained from one rooftop PV […]
Stated estimates for city-integrated wind and solar PV are too high (Letter in Science)
Synopsis: Recently published estimates in Science are orders-of-magnitude too large. In response to this review article in Science, we describe why the noted generation rate estimates for wind power and solar PV are too large. For wind, the atmospheric dissipation rate of ~2 W/m² limits wind power generation to much less than the 30 W/m² stated, which is supported […]
Science = bad teeth (sample size ~30)
Science = bad teeth (sample size ~11 postdocs and professors) My sample size of a few suggests that there are probably a lot more scientists out there than me with bad teeth. Mt. Dew was my accelerant of choice when I was in my early 20s doing my masters, and I carried this over into […]
Cover letter for a professor position
My education didn’t teach me how the academic hiring process works. I spent years sending out sh*t applications, until one day a close friend described the process from the hiring side. Not only could I see what I had been doing wrong, but I saw how to fix it. If you are a PhD student […]