Meet The MIT Professor With Eight Climate Startups And $2.5 Billion In Funding

Yet-Ming Chiang’s research on materials science might seem esoteric. But he’s used it to build an array of companies in areas like batteries, green cement and critical minerals that could really help mitigate the climate crisis.

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[danm_]

People like him should be the heros of our time. Not meaningless influencers, actors or actresses, musicians.. etc. who do nothing but encourage the materialistic, consumption based, capitalistic, superficial and unhealthy economy

[learkingofalbion]

MIT is an ideal place to study inputs to climate models, especially in winter when most of the heat is off in Boston, visible across the Charles River from the MIT academic quad and/or on cloudy days when the lights are also off.

[AdvantestInc]

The shift from catching lobster to mahi mahi in New England really highlights how climate change impacts local ecosystems. Chang’s firsthand observations make the urgency for sustainable innovation all the more clear.

[fabrifibraa]

Lobster to mahi mahi comparison was genius.

[kgoodwin]

Probably doing as much as Elon for the environment without all the drama and hype.

[vadimsirbu]

Given all that as for Today we've got the most Polluted climate ever !!

[conormcmenemie]

IF THIS DUDE IS SO SMART he would have questioned why the ocean currents from the equitorial Atlantic were warner! Yeah/ Easy Did he do this? I can get 12 year olds to to format the Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature data [UK Met Office dataset: HadSST1]. This would show irefutably that the ocean warming which caused him so much consern is caused by a reduction in marine stratocumulus cloud, allowing for more solar energy to heat the ocean A feature which can be backtracted to the Ethiopian Highlands to the Kiremt storms there, which eveolded into the African Easterly Waves which ultimatly created these clouds over the equitorial Atlantic. Now question what it was that humans did to reduce the frequency of these AEWs. Research written by an individual who has recievied not one penny for the work, yet others making billions on hocus pocus nonsence