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• iamcurious 12y ago
  https://www.iop.org/careers/working-life/profiles/page_57723.html https://www.iop.org/careers/working-life/profiles/page_57723... How did your career progress from there? I was offered a place at Stanford University to do postgraduate research into high-energy-density capacitors. But then the Internet came along, and I wanted a piece of the action.
  • jeremyrwelch 12y ago
    thanks! added it to the post
• vonklaus 12y ago
  Most of his talks he mentions this. He was doing a PHD to study ultra-capacitors, or at least, was accepted to UPENN with that intention. He left to start zip2. He has also mentioned that a part of the reason he didn't proceed was that his research was very theoretical and it would've been able to find (or disprove) of a method after years pf study. He mentions some of the other breakthroughs on iltra-capacitors having the efficiency of a lead battery, but, while extremely efficient, the prototype used an extremely rare material that only was mined in a few tonnes a year. Thus the solution could never scale.
• the_rosentotter 12y ago
  Musk has been known to embellish his academic record, it was detailed during the court case against Tesla's original founder Martin Eberhard: http://evworld.com/pdf/eberhardvmusk.pdf http://evworld.com/pdf/eberhardvmusk.pdf According to court documents he has never had any association with Stanford university, and, contrary to public statements, among them SEC filings, has no degrees beyond a Bachelor of Science in Economics from PennU.
  • peterfirefly 12y ago
    Do we know if we can trust Eberhard on this?