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longship

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7. Battery tech is very difficult

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Apr 5, 2012, 01:27 PM

Apr 2012

Advances are, so far, incremental. Revolutions are rare and dependent on breakthroughs which take decades of hard work and, most importantly, advances in the science which may not yet be achieved.

That's the regrettable situation right now.

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Shocking! Battery Tech From MIT (an awesome presentation) [View all] Playinghardball Apr 2012 OP

1 battery you can actually buy > 1,000,000 Ted talks. n/t PoliticAverse Apr 2012 #1

Storing electrons in batteries is not the real issue it's the cost of doing so, hopefully this guys uponit7771 Apr 2012 #2

Or each house can have a battery. CJCRANE Apr 2012 #3

Not even close. A forklift battery pack will give 48 hrs if used frugally. TheMadMonk Apr 2012 #8

Fair enough CJCRANE Apr 2012 #11

When or if electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids penetrate the market enough, IDemo Apr 2012 #4

We've never lacked ideas. If the Best and the Brightest ran this country.... Junkdrawer Apr 2012 #5

And that is why huge corporations, and the people that run them are Egalitarian Thug Apr 2012 #10

Friend, you said a mouthful... Junkdrawer Apr 2012 #12

The sweet spot should be a system designed for home installation. Old and In the Way Apr 2012 #6

Battery tech is very difficult longship Apr 2012 #7

Back in the early 1970s, that's about 40 years ago aint_no_life_nowhere Apr 2012 #9