tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post4482127765417710652..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Sometimes the Jokes Just Write ThemselvesSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-42235622138508059992018-05-31T00:47:41.906-04:002018-05-31T00:47:41.906-04:00Energy density folks, it's all about energy de...Energy density folks, it's all about energy density. It is unlikely using any foreseeable combination of anode/cathode and electrolyte in a chemical battery that energy density equivalent to gasoline will ever be achieved. If an alternate fuel vehicle can't go 300 miles cross country, refuel or recharge in 5 minutes or so and then get back on the road for another 300 miles, most folks in flyover country won't buy it. If somehow, using unicorn farts you manage to build a battery that crams the energy of 15 gallons of gasoline into battery that fits into a car and then a collision shorts out the battery, there would be an earth shattering kaboom.Nuke Road Warriorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122662466990452477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-31708329350485552942018-05-26T23:08:53.247-04:002018-05-26T23:08:53.247-04:00File under: "Flying Car News".
This is ...File under: "Flying Car News".<br /><br />This is vaporware.<br /><br />Somebody's working on a better battery?<br /><i>Stop the presses!</i> Who knew?<br /><br />Oh wait, except for every company on the planet.<br /><br />It may work, someday.<br /><br />In the meantime, they'd be better off covering their bets by designing a vehicle with a retractable cord.<br />Being a vacuum maker, they should have some experience with that, too, and it's more likely to hit the market before their planned revolutionary breakthrough in material science.<br /><br />Funny thing about scientific breakthroughs: like housecats, they seldom come when called.<br /><br />-AesopAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-58148769287981773762018-05-26T09:54:18.811-04:002018-05-26T09:54:18.811-04:00There's no investor contact, so for now they&#...There's no investor contact, so for now they're still a cash incinerator. Ritchiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08075903551422300106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-69134041100143087002018-05-26T07:34:36.614-04:002018-05-26T07:34:36.614-04:00Now, now, now... Let's not get started with t...Now, now, now... Let's not get started with the Monica Lewinsky jokes this early on a Saturday morning. Nor the Barry Sotero ones, either...Mark Matisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-51971566941747767782018-05-26T07:18:50.840-04:002018-05-26T07:18:50.840-04:00Still waiting to see Heinlein's Shipstones in ...Still waiting to see Heinlein's Shipstones in the real world. <br />"things that suck" (childish giggling)John in Phillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196033252818387245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-13467309840328645432018-05-26T07:13:55.080-04:002018-05-26T07:13:55.080-04:00I like Dyson, the company. But I think that these ...I like Dyson, the company. But I think that these sorts of new tech efforts are risky from a consumer point of view. LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-61077809698514424152018-05-26T02:02:21.761-04:002018-05-26T02:02:21.761-04:00I'm still waiting for IBM? to get their batter...I'm still waiting for IBM? to get their battery/capacitor to market. They said 7 years to market. Might be 10 years, now. Carbon nanotube, IIRC. Cellphone batt would charge in seconds, a car batt in just minutes, they claimed. Worked in the lab, they just needed to figure out how to manufacture it.<br />Damn, it's been so long, I'm not sure of the company anymore.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-58404439627315826412018-05-26T01:16:17.834-04:002018-05-26T01:16:17.834-04:00Fuckety, the OGF (name redacted) does this stuff. ...Fuckety, the OGF (name redacted) does this stuff. We talk every couple years or so. Her summary on every new development 'it's fine, until it goes boom'. And then I tell her, 'anything reactive enough to generate energy has a boom potential'. Then she apologizes for not marrying me almost 40 years ago. Her husband just doesn't understand her, or basic physics and chemistry.JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02448124833598565813noreply@blogger.com