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[–] [email protected] 79 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Oohhh, experimental groundbreaking paradigm shifting revolutionary battery design article #3646263859!

Let's see if this one isn't total bullshit like the 3646263841 ones before it!

Seriously this is getting ridiculous, I've seen these some literally 40 years ago, 99.99% is bullshit, and now I'm seeing literally over 5 new articles per week.

ITS BULLSHIT.

Call me when there is an actual battery based off peer reviewed research that has been successfully tested in production systems by at least 5 major companies. Until then, BULLSHIT.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The main problem is just that getting a product from a one-off in a lab to a cost-competitive mass-market product is hard and can take a lot of time, to say the least.

For example, Don Sadoway initially published about a molten metal battery in 2009. He gave a Ted talk in 2012. They've run into assorted setbacks along the way and are apparently just starting to deploy the first commercial test systems this year.

It's less that these breakthroughs are bullshit, and more that commercializing these things is hard. The articles about the breakthroughs are often bullshit, though, or at least way too rosy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I wonder if novelty products can be made with the one-off batteries. Imagine a $3000 flagship phone but it had 3x the battery capacity of the normal flagship phone while having the same weight and volume. I'd bet some people would pay for that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

A few years ago I completely checked out of all the future tech hype. A million videos and articles about the next big thing and nothing ever comes to fruition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Fuck future tech news, accept current news, praise analytical news based on historic data.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

#3646263859

3646263841

so there were 17 (18 if this one is good as well) successful designs, good to know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Ladies and gentlemen we got him

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

it's more of continuing series of AI hype

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

its all about getting your masters thesis and 🎓

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The article says they were searching for new solid electrolytes... which are meant to be incredibly thin, so they contribute a negligible amount to the total lithium need. It's far more important to look for ones with a high conductivity to compete with liquid electrolytes.