Materials matter. This decade will be an incredible time to build. — This article was originally published at tsungxu.com. Over eighty years ago, the rise of synthetic polymers led to one of the most successful original products ever. This product used nothing that we would consider to be technology today. That’s how long it’s been since there have been any material breakthroughs at scale. Few people seem to question why we’ve not seen much progress in materials. It’s easy today to…

I’m now writing about the energy transition, how we got here, and where we might be headed at tsungxu.com. My first piece is here. It’s long, but the introduction and key takeaways are there to summarize it. This thread is another way to look at the article: