• Obi@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    Eh let’s not pretend battery tech isn’t advancing rapidly. Yes the over-hyped headlines are annoying but battery tech is moving forward at breakneck speeds.

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      5 months ago

      The Internet is terrible at understanding R&D timelines. We’re operating on timelines that can be 10-20 years from R&D to a consumer products. It’s been this way forever. NASA’s tech advancements were a great example of this.

      If you want check on the progress of big scientific advancements, you can’t be looking back at the papers published last year, you need to look back at the papers published a decade ago.

      And that all being said, this specific tech is at the end of R&D pipeline. It’s going into scaled manufacturing. It’s going to be a thing you can buy soon.

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      4 months ago

      There’s been a toxic positivity in battery development news. It comes so often, and the results seemingly never appearing, that people wave off every advancement.

      I’ve seen people argue that there is no advancement at all (there certainly has been), or that sodium batteries won’t happen (you can already buy them). This is completely ignorant, but there’s a reason people feel it’s correct.

      Leaks over to renewable tech, too. Saw one guy argue we’d run out of pervskovites for solar panels.