Friggin' Europe, back at it again with the micromobility.
Bicycle lockers are a game changer. First time using one. Love not having to take off my lights, bags, pump, and other widgets. #BikeTooter
Kirk Smith, PhD
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🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis).
⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing.
🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri)
📍 Drôme, FR
🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid
🏴 In the lower left of the political compass
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Mar 31, 2026
Lab Notebook Entry #12
30 cycles, 133 hours, and now a UPS! Which has already saved my butt. And easier-to-read plots.
https://dualpower.supply/posts/lab-notebook-12/
#academia #OpenScience #Quarto #batteries #EnergyStorage #energy #science #electrochemistry
30 cycles, 133 hours, and now a UPS! Which has already saved my butt. And easier-to-read plots.
https://dualpower.supply/posts/lab-notebook-12/
#academia #OpenScience #Quarto #batteries #EnergyStorage #energy #science #electrochemistry
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Mar 24, 2026
I made a sub-5-minute video of myself building a flow battery and starting a test!
It's on PeerTube, ofc:
https://spectra.video/w/dxjsd8AR2uAvnA6UMnnb8G
It's on PeerTube, ofc:
https://spectra.video/w/dxjsd8AR2uAvnA6UMnnb8G
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Mar 22, 2026
Lab Notebook Entry #7
Back to wet lab, a crappy experiment to get the cobwebs off
https://dualpower.supply/posts/lab-notebook-7/
#academia #OpenScience #Quarto #batteries #EnergyStorage #research #electrochemistry
Back to wet lab, a crappy experiment to get the cobwebs off
https://dualpower.supply/posts/lab-notebook-7/
#academia #OpenScience #Quarto #batteries #EnergyStorage #research #electrochemistry
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Mar 20, 2026
@kris @oshwassociation I will try to bring a dev kit and prototype large-format cell with me to walk around with and show ! It will be "dry" ie. no liquid electrolyte (makes traveling difficult!).
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
social.coop
Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Mar 20, 2026
finally back to doing an ACTUAL EXPERIMENT woo (a standard ZnI flow cell test but still)
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
social.coop
Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Mar 18, 2026
Working on improving hardware documentation for our open-source battery project made in @freecad and hosted by @Codeberg
https://dualpower.supply/posts/lab-notebook-6/
#OpenSourceHardware #FreeCAD #documentation
https://dualpower.supply/posts/lab-notebook-6/
#OpenSourceHardware #FreeCAD #documentation
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
social.coop
Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
social.coop
Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Feb 13, 2026
RE: https://chemisting.com/2026/02/13/could-we-create-a-zn-br-flow-battery-using-nicotinamide/
For the chemists and electrochemists! A proposed system by my colleague #chemistry #electrochemistry #EnergyStorage
For the chemists and electrochemists! A proposed system by my colleague #chemistry #electrochemistry #EnergyStorage
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Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
social.coop
Kirk Smith, PhD
@kirk@social.coop
🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis). ⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing. 🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri) 📍 Drôme, FR 🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid 🏴 In the lower left of the political compass he/him EN/FR
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Feb 10, 2024
#introduction for @SocialCoop - hello, all!
I'm Kirk, an engineer researching the conversion/storage of clean energy: batteries, converting CO₂ into useful chemicals, etc. I'm from St. Louis, USA, did my PhD in UK, now living in France. I'm a lot of things but anticapitalist and antiauthoritarian are good catch-alls.
I plan to transition away from academia and start a worker-owned enterprise around these technologies, with open-source at the core. Here to learn from others and find community.
I'm Kirk, an engineer researching the conversion/storage of clean energy: batteries, converting CO₂ into useful chemicals, etc. I'm from St. Louis, USA, did my PhD in UK, now living in France. I'm a lot of things but anticapitalist and antiauthoritarian are good catch-alls.
I plan to transition away from academia and start a worker-owned enterprise around these technologies, with open-source at the core. Here to learn from others and find community.
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