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fantrollology-bios · 2 years ago

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these fluids got me feelin fluid gimme somethin imma do it

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Your name is PJ NOGOVA. You enjoy the DAYLIFE. Trolls can find you anywhere from the club down the street to the AFTERPARTIES AFTERPARTY, blizted out of your mind sitting on some huge seadwellers lap. While you love your little town, you graviate towards more HIGH CLASS EVENTS. It’s where all the good stuff is after all: clothes, drama, drugs. You wiggle your way in through your extensive web of connections, which you further through even more SOCIAL EVENTS, DATING APPS, and BUSINESS VENTURES. You make soap for a living. Well, a part of your living. Your little shopfront SWEET CYNAPIUM makes a fraction of what your online retail store, GLOOP, does, despite that one selling actual products, rather than useless polished STONES and worthless SCENTED OILS that promise health and beauty to highbloods. But hey, that’s where the money is! And you need MONEY. You’re supporting not only yourself and your LAVISH LIFESTYLE, but your HIVEMATES. IO doesn’t work, and you don’t want to make her. You tell her that her company is compensation enough.

— basics —

Name: Pajama “PJ” Nogova Pronouns: He/him

Orientation: Homosexual

Age: ~11 Sweeps

Height: 5'11"”

Location: Townhouse apartment above a soap shop on Alternia

Occupation: owns Sweet Cynapium (Bath, Body, and Apothecary), additionally runs the online shop Gloop which sells overpriced shit to highbloods

— alternia —

Caste: Rust, #A53A22

Lusus: Dove with some reptile attributes

Weapon of Choice: ?????

Abilities: None(?)

— personality —

Sign: NOT SURE YET

Likes: Good smells, herbalism, making soaps, partying, recreational drug use, scamming highbloods, dating apps, setting up Io to embarrass herself just the right amount

Dislikes: When former hookups keep bothering him, when people make fun of Io

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Current Status: Manning the register & scrolling thru troll Tinder

Goals: ???????

Open Hooks:

● If you have a big guy he can have hooked up w him in the past.

● He’s a big partier! If your character is often at clubs for whatever reason (recreational or is a bartender) they can know each other. I’d actually love for him to have a rap with an employee of a club.

Past plotlines: ● Taking in Io - No content yet!

— relationships —

Romantic:

♥ Matesprit Name - #None - [N/A]

♦ Ionyll Ordave - #Scams R Us - She was on the streets performing shitty dark magic for change when you found her. You didn’t hesitate to offer her a place to stay, and now she’s been here for several sweeps. She puts her foot in her mouth constantly, has repeatedly screwed you out of social events, eats all your snacks, and is incapable of doing an ounce of work. And you love her. You love her more than anything in the world. And you’ll keep her safe.

♠ Kismesis Name - #None - [N/A]

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Playlist ● Character Tag ● Art

Interest Tag ● Asks

#pajama #pj

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technato · 6 years ago

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Bill Joy, Silicon Valley Visionary, on the Future of Batteries, Electric Airplanes, and the “Internet of Energy”

He says solid-state batteries will be cheaper than today’s lithium-ion batteries and help move the grid to 100 percent renewables

Photo: Ionic Materials

According to Silicon Valley visionary and Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy, much about the future of energy and climate change hinges on a simple question: How soon can the world’s electric grid get its battery pack?

As a partner in the Menlo Park, Calif. venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers from 2005 to 2014, Joy says he focused on what they called the “big hard aggressive goals” or BHAGs. And from climate to water desalination to electric grid stability, the real challenges of BHAGs often circled back to cheap, safe, scalable, and reliable grid-scale energy storage.

Last month, Joy was in Woburn, Mass. for the ribbon cutting of new facilities for a solid state battery company he’s an advisor to and investor in, Ionic Materials. Ionic Materials has developed a plastic electrolyte—the medium in a battery through which energy-storing ions flow between cathode and anode and back again. This specially designed plastic conducts ions like a metal conducts electrons. And switching from today’s flammable liquid electrolytes to flame-retardant solid electrolytes, the company says, could bring about a new generation of lighter, more powerful, non-flammable rechargeable devices.

Joy sat down with IEEE Spectrum for a conversation about the promise of solid-state lithium (and rechargeable alkaline) batteries, the ��internet of energy,” and the coming electrification of airplanes.

IEEE Spectrum: As you have said, the English language doesn’t have a single word for the kind of battery breakthrough that’s needed — a solid conductor of ions, a solid electrolyte.

Joy: There’s this evolution of language. Like we had telephone, and then we had the touch-tone phone. And then the phones that weren’t touch-tone suddenly were rotary phones. And then you called on cellphones. But now when you say “phone” you mean a mobile phone, and if you want to talk about the other phone you need to say “landline.”

Now here’s this thing we’ve never had a name for. It’s like when you apply for a patent at the Patent Office, and they say, “No prior art.” It’s really a rare thing.

IEEE Spectrum: You called this new kind of solid electrolyte an “ionyl.”

Joy: I’m just trying to say that it could be like “metal.” I mean, you can have a liquid metal. But “metal” normally means a solid.

IEEE Spectrum: One battery expert I spoke with said that you can make all kinds of new materials, but what really matters is making the battery—proving that your new materials really work as the basis for a new generation of battery technology.

Joy: Making batteries has [traditionally] been hard, because they had liquid in them. Especially if the liquid needs to have no water in it, and there’s moisture in the air. To make something at scale involves a lot of investment in manufacturing equipment, and batteries made with our polymer require less capital equipment. But Ionic [Materials] is not building a battery factory. We can make batteries in the building. But the truth is for the high volume of manufacturing, we’re working with a bunch of different companies. And the different companies will have different techniques they want to use, different materials they want to use. We’re not a battery company. We’re a materials company and an IP company.

IEEE Spectrum: You’ve done some spreadsheet calculations that finds a plastic “ionyl” battery is cheaper than today’s lithium-ion batteries.

Joy: If you look at just the active materials in a battery, we can imagine getting down to the order of $10 per kilowatt-hour. That’s not the battery cost, that’s the cost of the ingredients… If I look at a lithium-ion battery, that would be graphite plus a separator plus a cathode plus the liquid electrolyte. So you’d need all four of those. And that’s about $100 per kilowatt-hour or more, depending on the current cost of cobalt. But we can make things that are as cheap as or cheaper than the stuff you can get in an alkaline battery at a hardware store. Because it’s basically zinc and manganese, which are way cheaper.

The other thing is I also found [energy storage in “ionyl” batteries would cost] less than a penny per kilowatt-hour. Which is a different measure, because that imagines putting the batteries on the grid. So for example if the batteries cost $10 per kilowatt-hour, to get to a penny, they’d have to do a thousand cycles. Because $10 is a thousand cents… So I just need to have a cycle life that’s a couple thousand, and I can imagine getting that cost of just the battery component down. But we’re not there today, because that’s high volume that we haven’t fully commercialized yet. But that’s where we are aiming to get to with our technology. And that gets… the grid to 100 percent renewables. Because wind and solar, if paired with inexpensive solid state grid storage, would be cheaper than [fossil] fuels. And they no longer have the variability, they would be dispatchable. All you have to do is buy the wind turbine or the solar panels and batteries. You don’t have the variable fuel cost.

IEEE Spectrum: You had referenced the cycling of these “ionyl” batteries. Are there any indications of how well they’ll run after 100 or 1,000 or more cycles?

Joy: It’s not generally the electrolyte that’s the problem. Think of it this way: I give you some anode powder and cathode powder, and I put them in a liquid. And they’re not completely pure. Anything that’s junk might be soluble in the liquid. It’s in solution now. And it might bump into something else that’s floating around. And they might stick together due to electrostatic charge. You can end up with dendrites, which look like stalactites or stalagmites… In other words, in the real world, the ingredients aren’t pure, and in a liquid [electrolyte] you get all kinds of other things going on. But if you take your powder and instead of soaking it in a liquid, you disperse it in a polymer, it’s still in dry form. If there’s some impurity in there, it’s not mobile. It’s not an ion, it’s not an electron.

The polymer helps remove some of the accidental chemical reactions… But say there’s silicon [in the cathode or electrode] that’s shrinking and expanding and falling to bits. Every time, that’s a stress-strain. It’s like taking a paper clip and bending it enough times that it eventually falls apart. If there are some of those breakdown kind of things going on either chemically or electrically, those will be cycle-limiting. But if you can knock those down, you can get thousands of cycles.

So for example, if you could get 5,000 cycles, and you do one cycle per day, that’s 10 to 15 years. We have other things in our lives that are solid polymers, and there are still limitations to their lifetimes. But it’s much, much easier to achieve long lifetime with a solid polymer than without it.

IEEE Spectrum: Technologies that are transformative—not incremental—sometimes spawn entirely new industries and applications that no one ever anticipated. Have you speculated whether these solid polymer electrolytes are like that? And if so, what do you think those new industries and applications are?

Joy: We’ve done some prototypes—we’ve just done it enough to know that it works. And it could always be the case that there’s something that makes it hard. But as far as we know there’s [a battery “ionyl” electrolytes could make more possible] called lithium-sulfur. And lithium-sulfur is really light. So you can see a huge step forward toward electric air transportation. Now the thing is I don’t know how to do electric jets. Jets are based on burning a gas and transferring that heat to pressure. What I have is electricity, which can turn an electric motor. That’s more like a turboprop. So, someone smarter than me might have a way to do an equivalent of a 747 that’s electric. I don’t know how to do that. But I think regional jets and commuter jets and drones will be radically improved by it.

And then for the grid, the major thing is [considering ] if the cost of storing and retrieving a kilowatt-hour are less than a penny. Then if I have wind at two cents… the question is how often do I need to store it? Some percentage of it will be used immediately. That won’t need to be stored. Some if it I can send the electricity to go around a congestion bottleneck in the transmission grid. I can move it at night. I can take an asset that was idle and would have been wasted—it’s like an empty airplane seat—and it’s still valuable to move energy around. So if by moving it at night, in a place where there would otherwise have been congestion, I avoid the need to build and depreciate a new grid.

Really cheap storage causes you to not have a power grid but an energy grid. And an energy grid is just not the same as a power grid. It’s totally amazing. Because you can buy and sell energy and use it later. I can warehouse energy and sell it back to people.

The third one would be if I could make batteries for $10 and I can sell them for $20 [per kilowatt hour]. In an electric car you have, say, 50 kilowatt-hours. That’s $1,000 for the batteries. That’s less than the cost of the engine by a lot. The cost of ownership of that battery is way less than the cost of ownership of the engine. But I don’t really need 50 kilowatt-hours of batteries for most places around the world. In most places I might need 15. So now you’re talking $300 for the batteries for a car. That’s mature prices, because in the end I have to buy zinc and aluminum. I have to buy things that there’s a mining cost. … So I don’t expect the cost of zinc or aluminum to come down. But, really, I do have the advantage that I’m not going to run out of them.

Bill Joy, Silicon Valley Visionary, on the Future of Batteries, Electric Airplanes, and the “Internet of Energy” syndicated from https://jiohowweb.blogspot.com

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fantrollology · 1 year ago

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quick shoddy lil io doodle i did to figure out the basics of csp

ty @byrdstrolls for jelp

#doodles #ionyll art #io art

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fantrollology-bios · 2 years ago

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ashes to ashes, dust to dust, the guys are fuckboys, the girls are sluts

Last Updated 4/6/2023

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— intro —

Your name is IONYLL ORDAVE.

You are a member of the LUCID, an interdimensional society granting its followers gifts like THE ENERGY OF THE DYNASTIC, PANSOPHICAL VISION, and IMMORTALITY as aids in their everlasting quest to, uh, what was it again? Whatever, blah blah blah! The most important thing is that you escaped the stupid cold and boring grub caverns and now you wield MAGIC. The real shit, too. Forget lowblood psionics (lame) or highblood durability (yawn)! And what, all it cost you was your LEFT EYE? Oh yeah, and a bit of your SOUL. Whatever the fuck that really means. All you have to do is recruit more beneath you and you rake in even more fantastical abilities; though TBH, you’re pretty cool with what you’ve got.

Getting out of the ground had its struggles but you’ve landed yourself a pretty sweet deal. You live with your moirail, PJ, in his hivestem situated above his little soap shop. He doesn’t even make you pay rent! Probably just because you are so fucking awesome. Plus, he rakes in enough cash scamming richies anyways.

In your free time you work on your abilities, attend whatever social events you get so much of a whiff of, and doll yourself the fuck up. You’re pretty fond of cosmetics, though you’re not the best at them, and love watching tutorials and following all of the hilarious internet drama in the community. You’re not, like, invested, but if NYXELF MACOPI doesn’t release an apology for killing SEPHOR AULTAA’s auspice within the next week you’re unfollowing. So unnecessary.

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Name: Ionyll (Io) Ordave Pronouns: She/her

Orientation: Bisexual, tends to crush more on guys

Age: ~11 Sweeps

Height: 5'4"”

Location: Townhouse apartment above a soap shop on Alternia

Occupation: Unemployed

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Caste: Jade, #004C34

Lusus: None, grew up in the caverns.

Weapon of Choice: Magic

Abilities: Various dark magic abilities

— personality —

Sign: ♊ Gemini

Likes: Makeup, her magic, boring men who make her feel special, partying, doodling her eye on stuff, pampering herself, The Bellhop

Dislikes: Criticism, people who are prettier than her, ‘24 hour lipsticks’ that are NOT 24 hours, cult obligations

— plot —

Current Status: Smoking weed in her underwear

Goals: Sexy and free

Open Hooks:

● Her backstory has a lot of pieces but I’d love to flesh out the details. If you have a Jadeblood cavern that she could be a former member of, let me know :-)

● Even better if you have jadebloods from that cavern who would have known her ● Not directly associated, but if you’d like to have your character be a member of the Lucid I am open to that! Let me know :D

Past plotlines: ● Leaving the Caverns & Joining the Lucid - No content yet!

— relationships —

Romantic:

♥ Matesprit Name - #None - [N/A]

♦ PJ - #Scams R Us - You don’t like mentioning it, and neither does he, but PJ kind of scraped you up off the sidewalk. You question a lot what exactly about you charmed him, but he really makes it seem like it’s everything. It’s super lame, but you don’t know where you’d be without him. It’s nice to have someone you can be completely yourself around, even if you don’t really know who that is.

♠ Kismesis Name - #None - [N/A]

Platonic:

● The Bellhop - ????? - ?????

● Bealxi J - #None - Fellow party girl and one of your besties. If PJ won’t take you somewhere, you can count on Bea!

— links —

Playlist ● Character Tag ● Art

Interest Tag ● Asks

#io

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