[Gravityloss]

If you read any green tech blogs, there seems to be a constant stream of battery breakthroughs in the lab. But why do they not materialize in commercial batteries? Li-ion has been stuck at about the same level for more than ten years.

I was trying to find some meta research on what fails with the commercialization of these technologies. There's probably hundreds of breakthroughs per year, or at least that's the impression you get. You'd think at least some of them could be scaled up in a relatively straightforward way. Or maybe it's just press release hype and the research hasn't been going anywhere for fifteen years...

[tocomment]

I've always so defer the exact same thing. I always thought it would make an interesting blog; someone who just goes through the "breakthroughs" of five years ago and actually contacts the researchers and writes up what went wrong.

Who's with me?

[Gravityloss]

It could require a lot more effort as there's no glamorous press releases to just copy paste - you'd have to contact people who might not be so willing to advertise their failures, and there might be rules preventing them from saying much.

But oh how it would be interesting! Just aggregate some blogs with a five year delay so there should have been ample time to have developed something.

Or just even write a few longer investigative pieces on why technology X failed to materialize despite immense promises.

[ars]

If you write the blog I'll read it. Does that help?