It's noteworthy that you can't actually provide any *evidence*
that someone's made a 100x breakthrough - though no doubt some
have tried to extract money from sucker investors with such
rabid claims.
Dont have to provide any evidence, if you dont accept my figure
that variants of lithium ion approach the storage of petrol then
thats your problem however, think about this:-
10 years ago NiMH acheived 100Watt Hours per Kg in pilot prod. and have
been on the market for a few years now. You can buy 900mA AAA cells
which weigh around 11gms, do the sums.
BTW, I did change the units to WH/Kg, instead of WH/l; 100WH/Kg is
240WH/l in this technology. So you only need a 37x (!) breakthough.
Get real, how likely is *that* though?
Lets look at another example,
So a 37x improvement in clock rate over 12 years doesnt seem possible
does it but, did it happen for some processors... ?
Or how about ram chip storage densities etc etc
10 years ago, Lithium Ion was just starting out in pilot prod also,
I will leave it up to you to work out the energy density from then till
now - so your 37x breakthrough is looking a bit more realisable when
it drops to around 10x and that is approaching petrol - like I said
I'm afraid chemical storage is with us for the forseeable. The
person who finds a way to make money using nuclear electricity
or some other source to synthesize alcohols (or other cleanish
liquid fuel) will be the next energy trillionaire.
There are a whole range of material technologies far beyond the
scope of this group and many are not and will not be published on
the net for some time to come, especially if they are near pilot
production stage along with concomittent commercial issues etc
Suggest you not be so narrow when it comes to chemical storage,
you wouldnt exclude petrol or other liquid fuels that store
chemical potential energy. 9000 Watt hours for petrol, there are
others which are almost as safe and they are at 20,000 watt hours,
suffice it to say they dont directly produce electricity but then
you'd agree any storage technology faces downline conversions to
other forms or at the least regulation issues and that means the
reliance to focus solely on electrical misses the overal point
of energy management, delivery and amortisation...
I dont have to prove a thing, you need to exercise patience in
context with various other breakthroughs that routinely surround
you for the last 10 to 15 years <shrug>
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Mike
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