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Re:Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration ba... by musingsole on Saturday July 24, 2021 @07:32PM (#27945294)
But why is that? Have they not completed the science? Or is scaling up the controllable elements of a lab environment for fullscale production really so difficult?

I've seen the inside of some magical labs...Their actual setup when you stared real close and knew enough of how they were doing things was anything but.

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Re:Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration ba... by tuatoru on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:27PM (#27945863)
> Or is scaling up the controllable elements of a lab environment for fullscale production really so difficult?

It's even more difficult than that. :-)

Ideas have negative value; lab prototypes also have negative value; pilot plants are worth a small fraction of what they cost - scrap value.

You get value from full scale production, and every bit of that value is paid for in the engineering required to get to full scale.

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Re:Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration ba... by iseanstevens on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:02PM (#27946028)
I don’t think functional prototypes have negative value…
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Re:Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration ba... by tuatoru on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:58PM (#27946324)
The cost of the great number of prototypes that fail to scale far exceeds the value of the few that do go on to be workable technologies.
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