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[–] 49 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Meanwhile, Tump fired the entire national science board

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Revolutionary new battery idea that will overtake lithium ion huh? Throw it on the pile

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I've seen this article every two weeks for the last 15 years.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Ehh I follow the battery news well enough to know it's different this time.

    The way you can tell is that it isn't coming from the MIT press release department.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, it's a good time for batteries and solar panels.

    I think we're just going to let out current infrastructure rot out from under us and while house generators run on gas.

    I mean, we could modernize our infrastructure, but we can barely keep bridges standing and I'm not sure if utilities are communism or not. I suspect that they are.

    The lithium iron phosphate is already pretty impressive, just a bit pricey.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Anything "flow" is going to be game changing to an extent I think let readers really barely understand. It turns energy storage into something as boring and understood as the refrigeration cycle. Flow means storage at scale becomes trivial.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Meanwhile the US has a president who doesn't understand how magnets work.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago

    The actual story buried at the end of a Sino #1 article-

    In the United States, companies like Oregon-based ESS Tech Inc. are already deploying iron flow systems for tech giants like Google.

    However, some of these existing designs could struggle with “dendrites” — tiny, needle-like crystals that can short-circuit the battery. The Chinese team believes they have leapfrogged these hurdles by using an alkaline-based chemistry and their new molecular “shield.”

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    By the way, what happens with redox-flow battery technology?

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  • [+] -8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Ooohhhh revolutionary battery article #15592508

    I'm sure this one won't be bullshit and will come into production tomorrow, right?

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    This is just a shallow, cynical, anti-intellectual remark.

    Sodium ion batteries are already hitting production.

    Iron flow and vanadium redox batteries also already exist in the real world.

    Grid and residential battery installations are happening at a rapidly accelerating pace.

    Lithium ion battery prices have dropped something like 90% over the last 15 years.

    Battery technology is improving at dramatic rate, both lithium ion and non lithium ion solutions.

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  • [+] -11 points 4 months ago (4 children)
  • [+] -16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Spamoflage

    I'm starting to see that China may have a large presence on lemmy. It would make sense with the .ml groups. You can see a lot of pro China stuff here plus lemmy is a generator against things like AI which benefits China.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If people who enjoy futuristic tech and hate AI slop are now on the side of China, sign my ass up

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I think they are. I think tech forums are essentially places to convince people to hate tech. Hate progress. Meanwhile other countries embrace these new technologies and develop, build and iterate.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If you don't want to see so much China and Russia-glazing, just block yogthos and jackeroni, that should cut it down about 40%. I personally don't mind agendaposting because I can tell from the get-go who it's coming from. There are prolific anti-China agendaposters too, for example from an account named Scotty.

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