I joked at the end, post streaming, that of all the meetings someone could have stood up and walked out of because it wasn’t what they realised it was, this one would have been socially acceptable to do so as we would have been completely understood by the audience 😆
Either way, it was worthwhile 😊

Was all good though, we got to talk, tell stories about what’s happening and what can be done or what progress is needed in work (which is arguably quite good as it stands, to be fair). Overall starting to bring knowledge, experiences and understanding to a wider audience!

And is only going to keep getting better as both more renewables come online, and EV tech progresses. I saw EV Platforms review of the ID.Buzz this week and they were averaging under 20kWh/100km in city-ish driving. That puts that at 42.8gCO2/km, half a PHEV small city car for a 7 seater van!! 😋

a result of 6420gCO2/100kms, or 64.2gCO2/km

A Toyota Yaris PHEV claims 91gCO2/km in its best case scenario. A van, almost double the number of seats and over double the boot space is nearly 30% lower. Hybrids have gotten better, but electrification, even done badly is just better!

#EVSky #electric

For those wondering, this was the original post to show that the bridge is closed to vehicle traffic.

Also, I’ve no photos, but went to the Killaloe market on the far side of the river and picked up some gluten free bits and had a wander around the stalls!

But yes, there’s a lot of people who do things that no one knows about, and the impact of some of them is huge! And it’s like, ok cool, didn’t know that 😳

Remember kids, science is cool, stay in school 🤣🤣

Wouldn’t mind but my knowledge isn’t even to the depth of those involved in this sort of advancement day-to-day. I’m a Digital Physical Design engineer + Dig design a small bit, I’m doing the bit before manuf steps in, so I’ve lost a bit of knowledge from not using it either myself!

The article you have there talks about the cutting and edge effects, feature size being reduced can help there, as it’s less susceptible to the impact of cutting (where it appears it’s sort of cut off the flat plane of devices vs a nice known edge, which seems strange, but ok??)

And to the thicker bars vs the thinner features we see now; that’s from smaller more advanced technology nodes. So old wafers were probably on 180nm or larger processes, they work well. Even step to 90nm, and now you can control things with higher speed and accuracy.

But thinner wafers also increase performance vs temp stresses, so solar PV gets hot and we see the negative coefficient of their performance as temp increases. Thinner wafers help control thermal stress & performance (plus some smart approaches in manuf doping levels) to stop this.

I.e a solid thud of your VW/Audi door vs the tinny one in an old Nissan Primera 🤣

Thinner wafers then improve performance and efficiency, and means slightly lighter doping might be required to control ground planes, but really it’s about the fact that thinner wafers + manuf controls like wafer grinding can improve device feature quality,

It would be hard to quantify a figure, but it’s beyond just costs!
Thinner wafers increases yield from the silicon ingot, so more wafers per ingot is the first thing. The 80% quoted there is literally pure profit, or pure cost savings, the later in this case.

All in to say, I’m going to bed with a bit of a grin on my face, as this is huge! We are really starting to make significant progress this year for #EVcharging and it is not slowing down at all!

And with ZEVI phase 3 announced this week, chargers are going into local areas and not just major routes

Also I’m working on a presentation for #GEVA and I did a video of the Infrastructure updates on the @ievasso.bsky.social site. It’s a 50 sec video to scroll through what’s there, and it’s sort of hard to capture sites/names/no of connectors in the video.

There’s a huge increase yet to come as well!