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Re:Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, r... by agumonkey on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:42PM (#18622005)
true but how far are we from chemical theoretic optimum ? manufacturing of cells is very suboptimal at the atomic level.
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Re:Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, r... by lolc on Friday December 07, 2018 @09:19AM (#18627823)
The trouble is making the cell chemically stable with a way to get current in and out. We can't know what configurations we'll find where this works. Maybe tomorrow a catalyst that changes everything will be found and our batteries suddenly have the energy density of TNT.
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