Battery development

[besilarius]

http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesignArticles/ArticleID/12312/Massive-800-MegaWatt-hour-Battery-to-Be-Deployed-in-China.aspx

Very interesting development in terms of power generation.
It's a long time frame, but fossil fuels do appear to be losing their dominance.

[Sir Slash]

Soon to be included in the new Samsung Galaxy phones. What could go wrong there?

[OJsDad]

You just have to change out the political dissidents every 12 hours to keep the tread mills running optimally. 

[Staggerwing]

Giant tank farms full of battery acid.

Hmmm... aught to do wonders for property values down hill from them.

[ghostryder]

Another pipe dream for the tree huggers. Here's a hint...if your new thing is in...CHINA then you know it's there because Xi Jiping said do it...not because it's actually finanially feasible in an open market place.

Crash course. Tech that's alive gets more powerful as it gets cheaper....mostly digital. Dead tech stands still. It only gets more expensive. As many times as they've rebranded the battery...the actual tech hasn't changed since it powered a U-Boat in 1938. What was in that '57 chevy is EXACTLY what's in that Lexus- only more expensive....

Electronics use capacitors for a reason, storing and releasing energy via a battery would assure their failure---they even moved away from electrolitic capacitors because...well the shelf life garanteed that PSU or motherboard would fail. Now they stamp "solid state" for a reason...to assure you...the buyer...it'll last.

They certainly do need a new form of energy storage to make solar and windmills practical....but they need NEW tech...not DEAD tech. A test tub still sells...ask any musician....he likes the sound...but he pays upwards of $200 every couple years for new ones for his amp.....back when we went to Walgreens to buy new ones for the T.V. they were like 89 cents or so. But it's still a test tub...

Sure Glad they didn't stick to the CRT like they do with batteries....

[Sir Slash]

This is just the first step. Wait until they build the flashlight to put that thing in. Or...... the GIANT Drum-Beating, Pink Rabbit of Death.  :o