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[Recy]

Definitive statements. Who am I to argue with such...

 

[flecc]

Definitive statements. Who am I to argue with such...

Just answer this Recy. Since business is not going to keep a money making idea secret, who is hiding this battery technology, governments?
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[Danidl]

We're talking batteries here though. 'gene manipulation' & 'radioactive sources' dangers are irrelevant.
Straightforward batteries, extremely powerful, safe enough and way beyond what can be conceived of on an obscure little forum populated by ebike enthusiasts (however knowledgeable etc) - will be in use, it's safe to say, right now around the world. Just not for us.
And 'trickle down' frequently does not apply as often as we might think or want - otherwise there would be no hunger, no thirst, no extreme and degrading dehumanising poverty etc.
Some things are just not allowed to happen for the masses.
Power = power.
We simply don't have it in the way that those that do have - whatever the need or benefit.
For even a 'fit for public knowledge' example of what's on the tables right now take a wee look at the DARPA wiki linked. It reads like science fiction fantasies. Can you or I begin to even imagine what's not fit for public knowledge?
And everything has to be powered, often in the field, discretely.

Just saying....

... The laws of physics , chemistry are well understood, the bonding energies and the electro chemical series are long established. So we know how much voltage difference can be achieved between different materials. We know the masses and densities of materials, so it is possible to estimate the power density of different combinations.
There is a hope that aluminium will make a good material and there may well be batteries constructed with it at present ...
There are plenty of products available to DARPA, which don't appear in commercial products eg high speed discharge capacitors used to trigger nuclear devices etc. ( If spy stories are to be believed).....

 

[appreviewcity]

That's was the great edition.