Curtis Carlson - Founder of Siri - and Professor of Innovation - Worcester Polytechnic and northEastern University - points out that
the next big thing seems to find a battery to drive the growth of EV’s (electronic vehicles) - with VW and Gates soon launching Quantumscape after a $500m investment in a $4.3b battery startup.
Could this enable a 500 mile car with a 15 minute charge .... by significantly increasing the density of the battery and making it noncombustable and non flammable?
An effective chargeable battery will be a game changer - they say- enabling a mass market transformation -
Could this be like what LEDs did to lighting, microwave did to cooking or air travel did for globalisation ?
Then there are carbon nano tubes. Some think that has even more potential.
And then there are Small atomic plants (of both types — fission and fusion). They many end up being the most critical advances in human history.
Good or bad ?
Are these energy densities of batteries dangerous? Could these be bombs?
Is this an issue?
Could batteries address global warming?
Curtis Carlson suggests that the combination of an effective battery and atomic power would solve most energy issues in a clean way. Solar and wind are not good solutions in terms of land use and overall pollution. The so called Green New Deal would be a disaster.
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