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by iamgopal
2954 days ago
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Just yesterday I was talking to my friend regarding this. The key idea is, humans are really good at driving the price down to bare material cost via agressive production line automation. For e.g. without all the automation including subpart a single phone with all the technology would easily cost upwards of billion. So comparing ANY technology regarding their future prospects, we can easily deduct that which ever can be made fully automatically in production line will thrive in the end. ( Compare solar cell with all other renewable technology. Sooner or later energy produced by solar cell will bypass all other combined by tenfold or more.) |
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I've noticed this with steel products and plastics.
Brings up one advantage batteries have, they are small. That you need to make a trillion of them works directly towards the cost being a small percentage over material and energy inputs.