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Re:Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal batter... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @12:40AM (#20816842)
That's not the right analysis at all. Imagine if you did the same math for avgas in a world where some other fuel does 100 MJ/kg. You'd declare "We're not there yet to propel airplanes with avgas, not useful ones, anyway".

You don't have to outperform existing solutions to have a viable product. Price and other factors can easily swamp a particular performance stat. Different performance will lead to different use cases, but that is in no way the same as zero use cases.

Re:Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal batter... by close04 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @06:09AM (#20818339)
I guess we can sum it up as "it can't replace everything (yet)".