Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles

WhisperingEye@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  NIckel Iron is fantastic without any revolutionary improvements. Batteries made 100 years ago still work today. They are large and heavy so are only of use for home power.

  The big “down side” which is the reason it isn’t commercially developed at large scale is that they last forever. No investors are going to give billions to a business that can’t generate revenue forever with a product that needs replacing every 3 years.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The government would for the military.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They are large and heavy. They are only useful for their virtually infinite life. If the military needed it for a few of their bases, they’d contract it out, a few hundred would be built and that’s it.

      For example a few thousand ISDN adapters were built for the government military. But it lacked corporate support because the Telcos didn’t want it cutting into their profits. So ISDN barely existed for consumers. Consumers suffered with 56k modems for 5-10 years until broadband- which telcos sold for more than a phone line, were immune from all the competition requirements of regular phone lines, plus got TV programming profit.

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