• Dr. Dabbles
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    21 year ago

    There are many applications for batteries where size and weight are not primary considerations.

    Yes, there are. But there are significantly less expensive, higher capacity, vastly better cycle life technologies already on the market right now. Like, we don’t run the electric grid on lead-acid batteries for a reason, even though they’re extremely inexpensive and nearly 100% recyclable.

    Irrelevant to the conversation.

    It’s not at all irrelevant. I get that you read a neat-o blog about yet another a vaporware battery and you fell for it one more time, but these foolish pieces are a dime a dozen. Go google for “battery breakthrough” and see just how much of the crap is churned out.

    I choose to be optimistic

    It’s naivete, not being optimistic. You’re being conned, these people are con artists. If you were optimistic about potential, you’d probably be talking about alternative metal group elements in batteries, or richer sources of lithium. This is, indeed, worthless.

    This is how science works.

    Fluff pieces in blogs isn’t how science works. Calling bullshit bullshit is actually exactly how science works. You might be looking for the futurism community. They’re much more excited about nonsense.

    • rhythmisaprancer
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      01 year ago

      Maybe you don’t like the mouthpiece, but it is just regurgitating information from a journal. You can find similar research reported in other journals. You clearly don’t like it, but that doesn’t make it bullshit.

      Optimism and naivety are not too far apart. Often it is just from one’s point of view.

      • Dr. Dabbles
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        11 year ago

        Yes, we’ve had similar nonsense copied from a published corporate “paper” for years now. It’s garbage. Not even hot garbage. Because it’s bullshit.

        You do know that bullshit gets published constantly, right? And that the rate of published bullshit in the greenwashing spaces has increased massively so these companies can grift people that aren’t critical enough to see it for the BS it is?

        • rhythmisaprancer
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          11 year ago

          I’m aware there are issues with science journals, but even ones ostensibly more trustworthy cover this type of battery more recently than 10 years ago. And being critical can be hard for anyone (such as me) who is objectively not a scientist and is not an expert in this field. I, and probably nearly all people here, can benefit from discourse in this setting. There is essentially nobody doing that tho.