[catnipman]

I love miracle battery stories because they work so well to provide balance for the slow-news-day semiannual “disaster” stories such as “the coffee crop is failing”, “the chocolate crop is failing”, “the food crops will fail because all the bees are dying”, “killer sunspots will destroy the world as we know it”, and “killer computer viruses will destroy the world as we know it”.

All “miracle battery” stories follow the same trajectory: 1.) miracle lab results widely publicized in the popular press, 2.) foundation of a new company (using lots of other people’s money) to make the miracle batteries, 3.) announcements for a couple of years that “we’re working out manufacturing issues”, and then 4.) either a fade away into oblivion for small companies, or a spectacular public bankruptcy (and the dregs purchased by the Chinese) for the big companies funded with hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer debt.

[Gideon7]

All “miracle battery” stories follow the same trajectory: 1.) miracle lab results widely publicized in the popular press, 2.) foundation of a new company (using lots of other people’s money) to make the miracle batteries, 3.) announcements for a couple of years that “we’re working out manufacturing issues”, and then 4.) either a fade away into oblivion for small companies, or a spectacular public bankruptcy

Sounds a lot like Rossi's "Cold Fusion" LENR bull stuff.

[smokingfrog]

What? The coffee crop is failing?

Guess I better go out and stock up. See y’all later.

[Moonman62]

I love miracle battery stories

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I wish I had a dollar for every one I’ve read and never came true.