ColeSloth

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I have no doubts it exists as a product. I have doubts about its battery. I'd like a big transportable battery backup device, but I wouldn't want to spend over $1,000 on such a thing if they battery is bad after 10 years. I can buy a gas generator for $500 and it will work fine for over 20 years without an issue. The battery just makes it much more convenient since there's no worry of running out of gas and it's silent and runs indoors.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A giant name like samsung and the auto makers they've teamed up with like Toyota aren't going to bullshit about the batteries being in production. There's no benefit to doing so. It's not like they're trying to raise investment capital.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 3 months ago

Actually, that music was based off of getting royalties and ad viewership. No one will pay for an ai to be exposed to an ad or pay royalties for an ai to hear a song. Or have an ai to hear a song for the chance of the ai buying merchandise or a concert ticket.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

Not very. There's a different sodium based battery being designed for home storage. Not nearly as energy dense, but will last a very long time, can be left outside the house, and uses cheap components (no lithium or other rare metals).

That's the battery you'll want.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I don't trust it. Off brand looking name. Has the high price, but then their upcharge for a few cheap looking solar panels is like a ridiculous $1400.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago (9 children)

True, as far as big leaps go there hasn't mean anything since the introduction of lithium based batteries to the market.

Until now. This is it and they have production working. Safer than lithium. Longer lasting, quicker charging, should perform fine in extreme cold, more energy dense, and solid state.

The next big thing is finally here.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But I really like satellite view.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

Back in the 1920's and earlier they were commonly just in a vacuum.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And what of the noble gas filled bulbs that were both brighter and longer lasting?

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not if you read/believe most of the info on the wiki. US government fined GE over it in 1949.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

100 years ago there was a meeting amongst lightbulb manufacturers that all collectively agreed to only design light bulbs to last about 1,000 hours. They were known as The Phoebus Cartel and Included Phillips and GE. Up until this agreement lighbulbs were typically lasting up to 2,500 hours. The manufacturers essentially created the concept of planned obsolescence because people weren't buying as many lighbulbs as they wanted and it was decided to stop making longer lasting bulbs with higher costs. The whole thing started falling apart (competition of non members that were making bulbs, but they were all small operations, as well as patent expirations that GE had) and the start of world War two pretty much broke it up, as the Cartel couldn't keep everything regulated and tested due to all the travel restrictions and such. But it still remains as the first global wide creation of planned obsolescence.

Extra fun fact: the common light socket screw design/size has remained the same since 1880.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's mighty hard of you to really claim, since EV's only started to become common about 12 years ago. It wasn't even until 2017 that the EV market broke 1% of vehicles on the road. Li-NMC batteries will eventually fail. They haven't been in EV's long enough to say they'll likely last 15 years. If they industry was really sure they would, the warranty period on them would be better than 8 years or 100,000 miles to provide 70% total capacity. If I only had barely over 2/3 of my battery capacity left after 100k miles I'd be pretty upset.

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