Repeal the laws of physics. Who believed G-d set those up anyway?
Workers of the World, Unite! Defeat the Capitalist, Imperialist and Racist Laws of Thermodynamics!
If any intelligent company thought this was possible, they would have done it already.
$120M is nothing compared to the possible payback if it could work.
The fact that no company has tried effectively proves that it can’t be done for the price.
” Late last week,the Department of Energy announced plans to spend $120 million to establish a major battery research center at the Argonne National Lab outside of Chicago. The stated goal: to create a new “Manhattan Project” that will develop an EV battery in the next five years that lasts five times as long and costs one-fifth as much as current EV batteries.”
No batteries will be produced and the 120 million dollars will vanish into the pockets of obamas friends.
Ping, for your lists.
” Late last week,the Department of Energy announced plans to spend $120 million to establish a major battery research center at the Argonne National Lab outside of Chicago. The stated goal: to create a new “Manhattan Project” that will develop an EV battery in the next five years that lasts five times as long and costs one-fifth as much as current EV batteries.”
No batteries will be produced and the 120 million dollars will vanish into the pockets of obamas friends.
” Late last week,the Department of Energy announced plans to spend $120 million to establish a major battery research center at the Argonne National Lab outside of Chicago. The stated goal: to create a new “Manhattan Project” that will develop an EV battery in the next five years that lasts five times as long and costs one-fifth as much as current EV batteries.”
No batteries will be produced and the 120 million dollars will vanish into the pockets of obamas friends.
Even if they manage to build a better battery (which I doubt), it won’t take more than a nanosecond to transfer the tech to the People’s Liberation Army. Heck, I’m sure the research will be transferred as they go, since half the people they hire for the project will likely be Chinese nationals.
I’d like to learn about ways that might lead to more efficient yet safe batteries. What chemistry still has potential?
A great thing about gasoline is that it has very high energy per pound than batteries but by itself it is not dangerous — that is, it needs oxygen to release its energy.
Batteries on the other hand need nothing but a short circuit to release their energy in a rapid, dangerous manner. Today’s batteries have sufficiently low storage capacity that shorting one out isn’t like setting off a bomb. However, a battery with the energy density of gasoline would be like an undetonated bomb.
A friend of my parents was once in a meeting that included politicians to discuss ways of improving the effencicy of jet engines. A major limitation, it was said, was that the the best known material for turbine blades, inconel, had been pushed to its temperature limit. A politician suggesting making a law to raise the inconel melting point.
Whenever I see the cost of an electric car, I add the taxpayer subsidies, which we are all paying.
The instant I saw Chicago is the site for the “research” I knew that a max of $20 million would ever make it to the project, and most of that will be pizzed away on meaningless pipedream silliness. The $100 million will find it’s way to numerous Illinois politicians; and I’d bet dollars to doggie-doo that a good slug of it finds its way into some offshore account designated to BHO.....as did tons of $$$ of porkulu$ and Tarp and other sources. You don’t think the $40+ million for his new pad in Hawaii fell out of the sky.....or, for that matter, that it came out of his own pocket, do you? These are bigtime, teflon-coated wheeler dealers we’re talking about!