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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
My personal thinking is that battery technology is currently at the vacuum-tube level of technology and what's needed is a Bell Labs to DISCOVER the transistor equivalent...then maybe we can start to achieve a Moores law scenario to energy storage. It will be interesting to see what happens.
(maybe we really are at a transistor level of energy storage...it just feels like there needs to be a revolutionary breakthrough.)
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The big difference in battery storage is we have to put energy in, and take it back out at a rapid rate. The laws of thermodynamics show that produces heat, so cooling in needed.
One scientists watched the movie Terminator, and enjoyed it, but the energy pack and backup pack would produce so much heat it would take a huge cooling tower to prevent meltdown of the Terminator.
Heat, and controlling that heat is the biggest limiting factor.
No doubt, we (humans) will figure out more and more compact and efficient batteries, but controlling the heat is the biggest issue.