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1 posted on 04/09/2021 9:33:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Hopefully, this will prove to be successful.

Then we can go to lots of electric cars.

Oops, that’s after we improve our grid.

And get reliable generating capacity (e.g., NOT solar & wind).

And harden the grid against solar (and Chinese) EMP.

Hmmmm, too bad we don’t have a government containing any folks who are actually capable of understanding science instead of screaming that we should ‘follow it’.


2 posted on 04/09/2021 9:37:28 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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LOL - new battery. I’m positive that this announcement has been issued monthly for decades.


3 posted on 04/09/2021 9:40:05 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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While many of these stories oversell and under-deliver on the promised technology, it is all but certain that we will see a huge leap in battery technology in the next few years. It is now one of the most studied fields of science because whomever finds the next great formula will reap the benefit.

It will be a game changer.


4 posted on 04/09/2021 9:41:07 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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6 posted on 04/09/2021 9:44:03 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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9 posted on 04/09/2021 9:52:00 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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Will it cost 20x a regular battery?


15 posted on 04/09/2021 10:04:13 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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Enough already with these “super fantastic” battery breakthroughs. Been reading these regularly for years and years and yet never see anything hit the market.


16 posted on 04/09/2021 10:21:36 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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“Hmmmm, too bad we don’t have a government containing any folks who are actually capable of understanding science instead of screaming that we should ‘follow it’.”

That seems to be the problem with this admin. Everything can be corrected with an EO, but outside of that they know no more than just to write the EO and things will form like magic! All these “woke” people have not a clue about real life.


22 posted on 04/09/2021 10:46:50 AM PDT by Shery (Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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How do these batteries help reduce our carbon footprint if their using carbon to help stabilize the battery?


23 posted on 04/09/2021 10:51:52 AM PDT by shotgun
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I’ll chime in as an engineer here with about 40 years in the energy alternative energy arenas

First of all I’m gonna break things down into two parts : science and engineering

When you see articles like this that is science

Scientists get free money to work in government labs and come up with promising ideas

Scientist get paid to write white papers and go present tgese ideas

That being said something that can be done in a laboratory setting may never ever happen in the real world

Engineering is where the rubber hits the road

If you can take a scientific discovery and turn it into a useful product that can be put out in the real world and help human beings- then you’ve really done something

That’s my opinion -but of course I’m an engineer

My final caveat is - beware scientific bull crap

There are many charlatans in this world that will use peoples lack of understanding of laws of thermodynamics for example to forget I’m into investing into Follies - they never produce anything

Everybody has heard of Solyndra I called him out right in the very beginning in 2007 when they made the big splash headlines in Fremont California with their million square-foot plant right on the 880

What was their product?

Line focus 40 sun tracking concentrators for photovoltaic system that they were supposedly going to put on commercial roofs all over the place

I said very simply at the time “ they’re never going to produce any useful product this is a complete and utter nonsense boondoggle”.

And of course it became a very famous one

Now here’s another one in 2004 there was something that came out called “Nano’s solar technology”

It’s complete another bull crap easily provable so but they have sucked up billions and billions of dollars from people who have that kind of money to throw away and waste based on absolutely no science absolutely no engineering and in 17 years now they’ve never produced ANY product

Hi just being who I am have gone in and Fattys people showing up in a suit challenge them on the stage in front of a big investor group and had them basically have security remove me from the room

I would say something along the lines of “I’ve been in the industry 15 years now can I please have a sample of your product to test?”

The same principles of skepticism apply to absolutely everything in the world if you can become a smart person

In short , don’t believe anything!!


25 posted on 04/09/2021 11:23:40 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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There has to be a parallel universe out there where everything is exactly the same as in this universe except that the cell phones are still running on triple-A batteries.


28 posted on 04/09/2021 11:48:18 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Why Does Joe Biden Always Look Like He Is Smelling Something Bad?)
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How long does it hold the charge?


29 posted on 04/09/2021 12:52:37 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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33 posted on 04/09/2021 2:52:46 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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BS fakenews


35 posted on 04/09/2021 4:45:49 PM PDT by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth.)
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And how much of the critical parts are made with rare earth stuff China controls?


41 posted on 04/10/2021 9:23:38 AM PDT by GOPJ (We need a better class of 'elites' - the ones we have now are more like vile white trash...)
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