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And yet we have somehow gone from rechargeable phone batteries that were about 3 times bigger than the phone I’m typing this on and had a capacity of about 500 mAh to where we are now with the battery that powers my phone being some small part of it and having a capacity of 3000 may, with only two major technology changes on the way. Meanwhile, we’ve been using the same technology for over a decade and the capability keeps getting better. I wonder why that is?

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SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Those while are great are just pushing the tech in tiny increments. It’s still the same tech. Kinda like how ICE vehicles got better and better, but they still use non-renewable energy.

This tech we need, is the leap from ICE to electric vehicles…vs an old model T to a modern Corolla.

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- GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  An order of magnitude more power in the same form factor in 30 years isn’t a tiny increment. It was certainly a number of tiny increments to get there. And for those big leaps you’re so desperately looking for, it isn’t one little group sitting down together thinking how they’re going to do something. There are decades of research building out a number of tiny discoveries, combined by a group at an opportune time to put it all together so everyone can talk about this momentous leap that they, from the outside perceived as something new that sprung out of nothing.
  
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  - SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yea that again, doesn’t negate what I’ve stated. Tiny increments throughout a technologies life is great, just like ICE vehicles, but it’s tech from the 70s and we need the next leap forward.
    
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    GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Fusion power is based on the aeolipile and work by Marie Curie. Just because you don’t see the all the incremental steps connecting those devices doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
    
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- GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well if you want to read about the many battery chemistries currently in use in EVs, there’s this article:
  
  insideevs.com/…/all-ev-battery-chemistries-explai…
  
  As the article explains, there are several chemistries that have already come and gone, and the current models being sold use a few competing chemistries with their tradeoffs. Some of the up and coming chemistries are also already being mass produced.
  
  So whatever it is you mean by “leap,” it sounds like it’s already been happening in the last 15-20 years.
  
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- nulluser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  This tech we need, is the leap from ICE to electric vehicles
  
  Great news! I heard a rumor that they’re going to start making electric vehicles next week.
  
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  - SpamTabulosa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Xn
    
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  - SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Perfect!
    
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