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by dane-pgp 1690 days ago
If that all sounds too good to be true, it's worth reading what other battery experts have to say about these claims. For example:

> The ninth research paper in Braga and Goodenough's "glass battery" work regrettably shows many of the hallmarks of pathological science. ... ad hoc theory, violations of the laws of thermodynamics, basic mistakes, disregard for established knowledge, absent or invalid chemical characterisation and, when all is said and done, devices that don't work the way they're said to.

http://lacey.se/2020/03/13/braga-goodenough-glass-battery-pa...

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>If that all sounds too good to be true, it's worth reading what other battery experts have to say about these claims. For example:

I wouldn't say it 'sounds too good to be true' when a nobel laureate is the one publishing. The same guy who invented the battery everyone uses today. With work being confirmed by multiple countries and multiple universities.

Flipside, this guy has a bias as he's a direct commercial competitor.

and as a battery expert he's saying things like:

>This is, as best I can work out, how it goes:

So he's not a battery expert? He doesn't understand?

>I am not especially familiar with field-effect transistors, but I will touch on this briefly to try and put it in to some sort of context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-effect_transistor

A very simple and old tech that's in tons of tech today? I couldnt even tell you how many mosfets ive let the smoke out of.

>The electrolyte is almost certainly not a ferroelectric glass of extraordinary properties, it is a wet mush of different salts

This isn't an accurate representation at all.