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My litmus test for battery/solar stories is: can you buy it? If not, consider it bullshit. At least these guys are announcing production.
by legohead 3y ago
My litmus test for battery/solar stories is: can you buy it? If not, consider it bullshit.
At least these guys are announcing production.
- justin_oaks 3y agoThis is why I generally skip over any "breakthrough" science/tech stories on HN. News articles on breakthrough discoveries are mostly bullshit and even when they aren't, most of the time they don't affect my life in the slightest because the tech is impractical or expensive. It may be interesting to read about science discoveries, but I don't want to take the time to sort out the bullshit from what's real just to find out that the breakthrough is irrelevant to me and society at large.
- lanstin 3y agowhat is your time horizon? not commercialized today == bullshit? i like these sorts of stories because they have prepared me a bit for some of amazing technology changes i have seen over past decades. by the time i can by an iphone i was at least expecting it. when email hacking stories started appearing in politics, i already knew the details. the first time i bought an electric car was not the first time i had thought about the issues of range and charge speed and so on. surely not everything that looks promising becomes popular, but that is also useful information, to me, a person whose job is building/helping to build novel systems.
- elihu 3y agoThere's also kind of a grey zone in there of "no, I can't buy it, but if I was a major car manufacturer I could." I wish we had access to all the good stuff as retail customers, but that's just not how it is. (This is especially frustrating on the EV conversion front, since the best parts are usually unobtainable except from salvage vehicles. The products specifically made for EV conversion are usually rather underwhelming compared to what the OEMs can get.)