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Honestly, it doesn't matter to most of us right now. Goodenough's original breakthrough didn't hit the mass market for 20 years. Turning breakthroughs into /pro
by jpm_sd 10y ago
Honestly, it doesn't matter to most of us right now. Goodenough's original breakthrough didn't hit the mass market for 20 years. Turning breakthroughs into /products/ is still really, really hard.
- mrob 10y agoBetter battery technology increases demand for batteries. Lithium ion technology made batteries good enough to be common but not good enough for everything we want to do with them. There's so much battery dependent technology now that another breakthrough could be even more profitable. There's strong incentive to get it to market quicker than 20 years.
- ralfd 10y agoThat is true, BUT: In the 1980s A) far fewer mobile devices were around and B) such devices ran happily on Mignon batteries (think the Walkman). There is a vastly bigger hunger now for batteries (also as storage devices/electric cars) and I bet inventions/innovations will be faster implemented.