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The Battery That Will Finally Unlock Massless Energy Storage
https://www.popularmechanics.com ^ | MAR 22, 2021 | BY CAROLINE DELBERT

Posted on 03/31/2021 9:27:40 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: DuncanWaring

Just making the battery weigh less AND be a part of the structural integrity is a huge bonus for transportation vehicles, land, sea, or air.


41 posted on 03/31/2021 10:34:43 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: rigelkentaurus
Believe this is the 114th monthly announcement that revolutionary battery technology breakthroughs have been made! Batteries are now free, very tiny, massless, and have unlimited storage.

I believe it is the 241st monthly announcement. This goes along with practical fusion electrical generation being just ten years away, but they only announce that annually.

42 posted on 03/31/2021 10:46:41 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: toast
make the battery the structural frame of the car

So instead of changing the battery when it inevitably goes bad you throw away the car?

43 posted on 03/31/2021 10:48:40 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Red Badger

44 posted on 03/31/2021 10:50:21 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: Lazamataz; Red Badger
This is actually an impressive and interesting development.

24 Whr/kg for this battery as opposed to 10615 Whr/for gasoline. Y'all can be impressed for me. I'll save being impressed until the energy density gets to be a whole lot greater then 0.22% of fossil fuel

45 posted on 03/31/2021 11:02:57 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: from occupied ga

Naw, ya jus replace the hood and bonnet cover. Might need to replace one or two of the alternators at the drive train, but that’s not much.


46 posted on 03/31/2021 11:21:09 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Lazamataz

What happens if your structure, house or cat, gets crunched carrying a full charge?


47 posted on 03/31/2021 11:24:23 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.)
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To: heartwood

Car. Not cat.


48 posted on 03/31/2021 11:26:21 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.)
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To: outofsalt

was that a scene from the attack of the killer tomatoes?


49 posted on 03/31/2021 11:38:59 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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To: Red Badger

As an engineer this sounds like total bull crap

This is what I always say to the charlatans

OK you have a new revolutionary technology do you?

1- Send me a sample of your product

2- Do you have underwriter laboratories and other certifications?

3- What is the price point and availability of your product in the commercial marketplace?

Most charlatans can’t even get past step one

Example: nano solar technology

These clowns got $100 million in 2005 and we’re going to “revolutionize” the solar industry

They were fraud from the get-go are still frauds now and I’m still running into charlatans that are bilking out investors based on this bull crap

I got an argument with one of these charlatans in front of a rich guy and I said send me a sample of your product!

If you’re technology is so great if you’re going to take over the market be like any other solar panel company and send me a sample of your product

That’s simple enough right?

Just remember most everything you read is bull crap in the energy world

These are researchers looking for research grants ; they’re never going to produce any worthwhile products to humanity

When the “free energy” seminar guys used to come around and get people to pay to watch their seminar I would go up on stage and say the two following

1- Please state for me the second law of thermodynamics

2- I’ve got a 1 hp motor here - can I plug that into your free energy device?

It’s producing free energy right?


50 posted on 03/31/2021 11:45:43 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (Fraud !!! Now we’re off the TRUMP TRAIN and on the Swamp express to communist hell !! TRUTH! )
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“I fully admit to not having read the piece, and I don’t intend to. It just doesn’t interest me that much. However the first thing that came to my mind was if the battery is part of the structure of the vehicle what happens when the battery wears out? I would also wonder what the repercussions of getting in a serious accident would be. People do wreck cars all the time”

For someone that didn’t read the article you asked good obvious questions.

We increasingly live in a disposable society. One option to the first question is to trash the device when the battery wears out.

Not sure about the 2nd question but I am sure one option is to just sue someone. :-)


51 posted on 03/31/2021 11:58:48 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Red Badger

re: “The Battery That Will Finally Unlock Massless Energy Storage”

NOT a primary energy source, unlike Brilliant Light Power’s SunCell Hydrino-producing reaction process ...

On the order of 1 gallon of gasoline would power a car across America using the Hydrogen to Hydrino ‘reaction’.


52 posted on 03/31/2021 12:07:31 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: minnesota_bound

I once believed the hype several decades ago that fuel cells in every home were just around the corner.


53 posted on 03/31/2021 12:42:57 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: Truthoverpower

You reminded me of the “free energy” clowns that put induction coils under high power transmission lines.


54 posted on 03/31/2021 12:55:27 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: Organic Panic

I wish everyone had electrical/electronics knowledge so that they could understand your brilliant statement.


55 posted on 03/31/2021 1:03:11 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: Red Badger

Has ANYTHING Popular Mechanics has touted as the next big thing or as a breakthrough in the past EVER actually turned into any workable, usable commercial product. I’m still waiting for the flying cars.


56 posted on 03/31/2021 1:53:06 PM PDT by hadit2here ("If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." )
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To: Red Badger

Sounds good.

So you have a car or truck with the frame battery and you have a wreck that bends or breaks the frame....a common occurrence in a wreck.

Now you have a dead short and a dead short with batteries of that size means you have something similar to an electric welder out of control.

Fire, electrocution?

There are advantages to electric drives, but there are also problems.

In the beginning I hope that batteries are in a more protected area.


57 posted on 03/31/2021 2:32:13 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: Red Badger
"studs in your home were all batteries"


Hmm.. Are they the living kind (as in never-stop), or do the batteries have to physically be replaced every once in awhile?
I guess, either way, the women would never leave home again >.<
58 posted on 03/31/2021 3:25:38 PM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: Red Badger

Whatever.

I prefer fusion...

Know where I can get a Delorean?

5.56mm


59 posted on 03/31/2021 3:28:46 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: Organic Panic

“I will be rich when I finish my AC battery and monopole magnets.”

I’ll be rich when I figure out how Tesla managed to tap into and utilize the electromagnetic forces in our atmosphere or dead shortly thereafter.


60 posted on 03/31/2021 3:51:54 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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