Please read the website carefully and use the website to apply. Please don't use email since your application might get lost and it is a lot of extra work for us. But you can ask me/us questions using email (see site).
NEON research accelerates the energy transition with a focus on solar, wind, electric mobility, MAAS and smart grids and using a team with many different competencies that will work closely together with each other and with companies and governments. neonresearch.nl/solutions/
Every Friday we come together in Eindhoven (virtually for now) to learn from each other and motivate each other. We end the week / start the weekend with music and drinks.
But of course people of the 20 partner companies are also welcome and every month the Friday is a mini-conference with presentation to and from partners.
The idea is also to use these presentations to eventually create a global transition course. neonresearch.nl/partners/
Every year we produce a report and (more importantly) an online model that shows cost effective pathways to a renewable future. At the kick-off a member of the Dutch parliament already indicated that he and his colleagues would LOVE to use that.
Let's not exaggerate: a lot of the practical work within NEON will still be writing papers that are primarily relevant for a specific domain or discipline. But the explicit purpose is that the PhDs together create societally relevant pathways that accelerate the transition.
That's the kind of "purpose driven movement" you would become part of when you get a PhD position within NEON. And we aim to grow further so we can make a BIG difference! Please apply when that appeals to you!
And usually I don't spam on Twitter but it is *really* important that we find the smartest and most motivated people for NEON.
So I would like the tagged & following people to consider a retweet. (You can simply mute this discussion if you don't want to see notifications!)
GEOTHERMAL
Just saw a fascinating webinar and you should too if geothermal interests you.
It explains how techniques from fracking are creating a game-changer in the last few years that can reduce the cost of energy systems without fossil fuels.
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The webinar by prof. Roland Horne from @Stanford is about Enhanced Geothermal Systems or EGS that he defines as using fracking to make the area between the infusion and extraction well permeable for water.
He focuses on @fervoenergy, a company founded by two @Stanford alumni (one from his program) that has for the first time in history used the horizontal boring technique from fracking in geothermal.
This eviscerates the last credibility of @Toyota regarding EVs.
They (esp. Gill Pratt) have been pushing the story we should buy their hybrids instead of full EVs because lithium batteries are and will stay the bottleneck