Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "NASA's solid state battery could change EVERYTHING" video.

  1. I will not only get excited, I will finally build my electric powered WIG hovercraft and not have to deal with a poison belching turbocharged boxer engine. If any craft could fly electric it's a WIG machine, once your on the bubble nothing is more efficient, not wheels, not tracks, not conventional wings, nothing.
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  2. Wasn't there one developed at Georga Tech a year or two ago that is presently in real commercial development? Can't remember the name.
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  3.  @timower5850  Who said it wouldn't? Though if NASA liscensed it, it could go a long way in paying their bills. I bet the Chinese will actually manufacture this tech as soon as if not before US companies, because we love their spies so much.
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  4.  @turtley8883  OH, I agree entirely, its the mining for coins that is possibly the stupidest thing ever devised. Coins could have as easily been allocated based on individual genetic codes or other schemes. But spending real resources for a fictional product that could easily be disseminated otherwise it so beyond stupid, not to mention environmentally negative.
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  5.  @turtley8883  No crypto bets for me: chips, EVs, batteries, they are not doing great either but I am an investor not a trader, so am mostly unconcerned with fleeting fluctuations.
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  6.  @MatthewDouglas805  Sounds right.
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  7. This reminds me of the questions in IQ tests "Which one of these things does not fit the set?" Let's see: battery development -- real resources expended for improvements in a real product, EV evolution -- real resources expended for improvements in a real product, genomic research -- real resources expended for improvements in a spectrum of products, crypto -- real resources expended in the pursuit of a fictional product. Hmmm, which one doesn't fit? Beats me.
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  8.  @turtley8883  maybe -- but ultimately the market may stop it. AS I understand it, most of the computing involved in mining is just busy-work. The government of Western Australia issues crypto backed by physical gold, I find that an intriguing issue, that never really got any play.
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  9. Sounds like all the breakthroughs that are right around the corner: far off.
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