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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (345062)7/31/2007 6:21:02 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1576882
 
"Taking a lot of time... the first autos were electric."

Battery technology has always been the limiting factor. Even in the early days. And there was, as best, incremental improvement until very recently. It really wasn't until notebook computers started to be used regularly that things really started to change. A lot of the early notebooks used gel cell lead-acid batteries. But, they were extremely unsuited for notebooks and NiCads weren't a lot better. NiMH were better, and the market pull meant there was a lot of investment put into LiION batteries to make them practical.

And despite LiIONs packing enough energy to make them a fire and/or explosion hazard, it still isn't enough. Which is why if EEStor can get their idea off the ground, things will change pretty quickly. If they can really get the energy densities they are talking about, and produce them reliably, it will be a revolutionary product.

But, there are a lot of 'ifs' there....
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