Hopefully I'll recall Mr. Goodenough now when I see the technology. My standing association is Scott's Tots.
Remembering lithium-ion battery pioneer John Goodenough
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nikola Teslas contributions are generally vastly exaggerated. Saying he “invented the twentieth century” is certainly way over the top. Aside from Westinghouse ans Edison, I think Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky‘s contributions are arguably way more important for the modern elecric grid than anything Tesla did. Since three phase AC power was the key invention unlocking its potential, and he set up the first long distance…
One might also imagine a constant current DC power distribution system with all houses in series that could have been deployed in the 20th century. The power company provides 1 amp constant current, and if you don't want to use any power, you short it out. If you want to run a lightbulb, you put your 1 amp through a lightbulb. If you want to run two bulbs, you put the current through 1 bulb and then the next in serie…
Imagine the world where every house has a substantial DC potential relative to their local earth (and the plumbing), and where switching any inductive loads causes significant arcing. What fun could be had!
I am excited that POE has finally provided us a way to run DC power in walls, but that is only approaching useful now that many loads in houses are DC at the endpoints.
Re: Remembering lithium-ion battery pioneer John Goodenough
#53It's still the most unbelievably ironic name for a pioneer/inventor.
Random, does anyone know how this name is actually pronounced (or, rather, how he pronounced it)? I think it would be awesome if it were actually "good enough". Did some searching online but all the results seemed of dubious quality.
As I've seen and heard it, it's pronounced "Goodnow"
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the contrary, innovation is often about being great at doing things "good enough" so that you can rapidly advance to the frontiers. Innovators must be pragmatic, and so they leave perfectionists in the dust.
Perhaps he meant to write "iconic" but misspelled, there's even a song in his name featured in Back To The Future.
What song ?
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#56Nikola Tesla was known as "The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century" John B. Goodenough would be The Man Who Invented the 21th Century
Goodenough I guess.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was wondering if it might be pronounced “good-in-ow”.
If that'd be so, it might come from a "make it sound and spell English" Goodenowe, Godunov, Gudanowski etc. Lo-and-behold John Goodenough is from Thuringia, Germany, born to Jewish parents, father Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough. So quite likely the name was transcribed at some point in history, even if not documented in Wikipedia et. al. very publicly, we can see that his father in turn seems to come from said "Goodenows"…
Just speculating, but -enau is a common town name ending in German, a person from that place might be name -enauer (see Adenauer). There is a Gudenau Castle in west Germany. Gudenauer would have been an excellent candidate for Ellis Island-fication
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Looper
Especially this bit: > In Los Angeles County, a candidate by the name of John "Lower Taxes" Loew has run in every election for county assessor between 2000 and 2018. He explained that he changed his name in order to send a message about his political positions.[30] [31] In 2000, Loew received less than 1% of the vote[32] in the special election to fill a vacancy in the office. In 2002 and 2006, Loew lost the election…
I stand corrected
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#60It's still the most unbelievably ironic name for a pioneer/inventor.
There's a computer architect with the surname Lowe-Power https://cs.ucdavis.edu/directory/jason-lowe-power
There is also the Japanese computer scientist named Eiichi Goto. Among other things he invented the parametron, which tops my list of coolest logic circuit names and which may or may not eventally make a comeback in reversible quantum computing.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichi_Goto