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Zhigang Suo Steam engines are a relict of the past. Turbines are not! Stationary gas turbines are becoming a thing of the past as we speak. Stationary steam and aviation gas turbines are a different story. Pumped hydro power can be one of the large backbones to our power grid.

Victory Garden Way, Independence Day

In the evening of July 3, I bought 10 books for $20 at town library. “Too many good books,” I said to a librarian. “That’s a good problem to have,” she said. “We’ll close tomorrow, but open on Saturday. Come back for more.” I walked home with the books. It was drizzling.

The Stone Age did not end because the world ran out of stones. I heard of this quote years ago, and looked up its origin today. quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/07/sto…

Alessio Zaccone 🇺🇦 Juan R. González Álvarez Ludovico Cademartiri In teaching the undergraduate course, I state the basic algorithm of thermodynamics in terms of isolated systems. The algorithm is then used to analyze thermal systems, closed systems, and open systems.

Shreenivas Doddapaneni Zhigang Suo Nanshu Lu @ UT-Austin Xuanhe Zhao Ruobing Bai Elon Musk Thanks for thinking of us in Texas! The flooding of the last weekend has affected many in Central Texas including Austin area. I drove through heavy rain on Saturday and arrived safely at Port A for the weekend.

The science of crack growth has developed an approach not commonly taught in thermodynamics: the driving force for localized irreversible processes.

Potatoman, Hindi Shwa Enjoyer Heat transfer is an irreversible process. In teaching heat transfer, do we teach any localized irreversible processes? It is interesting to see if heat transfer has an analogue of energy release rate. Any suggestion?

Sunset at Victory Garden Way, Monday

⁠So proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming

AI will not end the pleasure of writing, just as automobiles did not end the pleasure of walking.

A report on our recent paper New Tires Could End Up Ten Times Tougher With Harvard's Crack-Resistant Rubber Guodong Nian Zheqi Chen Xianyang Bao MWM_Tan Yakov Kutsovsky jalopnik.com/1896687/new-ti… jalopnik.com/1896687/new-ti…

If Ozempic is a cure for a disease in the age of automobiles, what will be a cure for a disease in the age of AI?

If an inactive body results in obesity, what will an inactive brain result in?

BYD (Build Your Dreams) sells its cheapest electric vehicles in China for under $10,000, a third of the price of the cheapest electric vehicles available in the U.S. Would Milton Friedman roll in his grave? nytimes.com/2025/07/08/opi…