Comments by "Diana Pennepacker" (@dianapennepacker6854) on "This Is Why Companies Are Hiding The Truth About Batteries" video.

  1. No. If someone developed a new leap in battery technology to hold us over until Lithium Air comes around? They would be disgustingly rich. Remember it isn't just one company striving for it. It is literally countries. America, China, all of Western Europe are researching it for not just civilian, but military uses. Solid State is coming out in 2024. I'm really hoping more break throughs on lithium air can. Therotically they have the best maximum potential, and can be made to draw air from the environment making them hold up to 12.7kw kg. Anyway technology moves to rapidly for old companies to try to stagnant a technology so important to civilization. Governments would get involved.
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  2. Batteries aren't fusion tech always twenty years away. Battery tech IS improving. A lot. Year in and out. It is insane. Maybe you're young and don't realize it. I am 40, and it is crazy how much they've come along in my life. We have solid state batteries now in production. We have batteries now that can last a million kilometers. We have energy storage batteries. Many new batteries ARE coming out of the lab. It just takes time to get into sufficient production. Some are simply too expensive at the moment for consumer stuff, but the price is going down tremendously. The potential for batteries isn't even touched. We can therotically have batteries ten to twenty times the current average in power density. This video has strawman. One, the main resources in batteries are not that rare. America has the most lithium deposites that can last us 1k years. No scientist agrees that we will run out of these resources anytime soon especially when we can now recycle 90% of our lithium ion batteries. Hell even the icean has lithium that some companies are trying right now to learn to refine. I think some test facilities are in the works. Mining is as dirty as the country it is stemming from. Those countries are notorious for dirty practices, and no environmental regulations. We let them mine it as why not? They can do it cheaper. People act like the oil industry isn't basically the biggest environmental disaster of the past century. Or act like the gas industry doesn't use rare metals in refining or usage. Look at what catalytic converters alone consume. Battery tech is awesome. I hope to see an actual exoskeleton before I die. Energy is holding that back. Future is bright. Electric motors are superior. Batteries just need to catch up.
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  3.  @duudsuufd  You are saying governments force designers and engineers to make things that don't last in order to get more taxes? Hah. Give me a source on that. There is literally zero evidence of such a claim. I know engineers. My grandpa was one. Things are more complicated now while requiring hire tolerances to function. If you want a simple thing that will last long you can have it, but it will never be good outside of that fact. Again if a new battery technology leap that was scalable happened today. People would be jumping on it ASAP. No conspiracy involved. Just ask the people who actually make it happen like I have.
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  4.  @MrEli768  Electric cars in the 1890s suck. Battery tech wasn't even close. Hell battery tech still isn't as good as good ol terrible fossil fuels. Why would anyone use anything with the exception of larger vehicles like trains or construction equipment on anything but gas? (Hybrids) Gas was cheap, plentiful, and has more power density than any battery can dream of. If it WASN'T for governments getting stricter, investing, and researching? We wouldn't have as many EVs. It took Tesla to show you can be profitable. Lithium Ion was invented in the 70s. Yet after the oil crisis it didn't make financial sense to invest more into it. It took electronics manufacturer Sony to see the value decades later. That is how technology works. No conspiracies. Well, the 1990s volt story is sketchy. Outside of that I stand by my statement. Whomever makes the next leap would patent that, and make billions in a heart beat.
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  5. Yeah. There is a reason some don't leave the lab. Cost is an issue. Yet saftey, charge rate, and charge cycles is the other. Who wants a battery that lasts a week, but takes half a week to charge then dies after 20 charge charge cycles. Wish lithium air would work! 20 times the energy density at HALF the maximum therotical density. That max is 12.3k. Wh/Kg. Nesrly as good as kerosene. It is the best therotical chemical battery science knows of.
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