[Terpfen]

Every few months we get a story about new battery or battery replacement technology and it never goes anywhere.

Zzzzz.

[truthguy]

Every few months we get a story about new battery or battery replacement technology and it never goes anywhere.
Zzzzz

My thoughts exactly. You beat me to it.

These newspapers (if I can still use the word paper) get their stories from the scientific and technical journals and most of the people at the news organizations are scientifically and technically illiterate. They don't read the fine print and find that many of these are advances are in the infancy stages and they rarely pan out.

The research universities have a policy where their professors must publish material so they can stay on the faculty and get research money. So they publish a lot of wishful thinking. I've been reading these studies for 20 or more years and 99% of them are bunk. If I had a nickle for every over exaggerated story about energy breakthroughs I've read I could go for early retirement. If on the extremely rare occasion I'm wrong and this is significant, then I'll be the happiest guy around. I'm just getting tire of all the wolf calls.

[edzo4]

I’m not impressed nature makes electricity(lightning) by mixing warm air and cold air, if they ever come up with a way to do that, then Ill be impressed

[dangus]

Really? You’re putting coppertops in your cell phone?

[catnipman]

Every few months we get a story about new battery or battery replacement technology and it never goes anywhere.

Zzzzz.

So you've noticed that too, hey? Indeed, these wunderbat announcements have been going on for at least 20 years now. If you bother to follow any of these initial announcements, the companies always crash and burn because "we're still working out the problems of commercial production". This happens every time! After multiple rounds of investment financing, the investments eventually dry up and the company goes out of business, presumably with the principals considerably richer in some fashion or other.

At this point, I think the whole wonderbat thing is just a very popular scam to fleece investors.