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by venomsnake 3707 days ago
I am a bit cautious about that. While the researcher do insane amounts of high quality and ill compensated work, clean energy and battery storage feel as predictable as "our incredible journey" or "cured cancer/obesity in mice/petri dish" posts.

1st - we have "Researches made a break trough" 2nd - the new technology is below current / at par 3rd - more works needs to be done to get to acceptable parameter and market 4th - years have passed - there is no hint of commercialization

Meanwhile exiting tech has gotten couple of incremental improvements and economy of scale and makes the inroads of newcomers next to impossible.

If the next decade is going to be insane it will be on the shoulders of existing tech. The nature of the beast.