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rio517 · 2021-01-07 23:40:05+00:00

Annalists have been saying this for years. I'm skeptical. Along many other reasons, there aren't enough batteries to go around.

bagels | karma 6530 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2023-10-16 22:59:32

Cost of batteries is the limiting factor. They are expensive.

watwut | karma 13879 | avg karma 1.1 · | 2022-02-04 06:09:07

Realistically, it is pretty expensive and the batteries will run out soon.

exporectomy | karma 1484 | avg karma 1.53 · | 2021-04-24 07:29:54+00:00

If it's cheaper than batteries, adding batteries will just make it less economical.

bitoneill | karma 89 | avg karma 1.25 · | 2018-01-29 18:41:05+00:00

So I gather you don't believe batteries will succeed as a solution

Havoc | karma 16454 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2019-09-01 10:55:25

This to me suggests we need a hell of a lot more batteries in the system. Don't see anything else reacting fast enough.

mavhc | karma 3259 | avg karma 1.49 · | 2021-07-15 09:03:10

Only if they can buy enough batteries

fallingknife | karma 5335 | avg karma 2.24 · | 2021-03-04 23:09:20+00:00

No one is using batteries at a large scale at this point.

Arnt | karma 6341 | avg karma 1.66 · | 2020-05-23 11:13:01+00:00

Wouldn't that require about a hundred times better batteries than we have today?

Tostino | karma 2543 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2022-05-13 10:13:37

The applications where additional batteries are not preferable to this complicated system are vanishingly slim IMO. I've seen this proposed over the years over and over, with people designing similar systems, and i've always ended up disappointed in the objective performance characteristics of them.

ufo | karma 8588 | avg karma 2.91 · | 2014-12-06 15:10:59+00:00

Batteries are extremely expensive / inefficient for that.

Mrdarknezz | karma 93 | avg karma 1.15 · | 2020-08-31 13:54:50+00:00

Batteries are not feasible economically or capacity wise.

simonebrunozzi | karma 31854 | avg karma 3.55 · | 2015-02-16 15:36:49+00:00

Hi Chuck, that's a good point - but I guess we're still a few years away from cheap enough batteries. :)

ftth_finland | karma 189 | avg karma 0.93 · | 2023-06-01 09:54:59

Somehow having to thousands or millions of small batteries doesn’t sound like a better idea than having a few large ones.

bagels | karma 6530 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2023-10-16 21:20:51

Why ought it to be? Batteries are still expensive.

topbanana | karma 935 | avg karma 2.43 · | 2016-07-12 07:58:38

It's all about the batteries. That's what's holding us back

TeMPOraL | karma 106045 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2024-05-31 06:09:47

That's still 19 centuries too late. They had simple batteries in ancient times; they should've doubled down on that back then. /s

himinlomax | karma 2687 | avg karma 2.18 · | 2021-02-25 08:54:29+00:00

It's not even clear they were actually batteries. It's possible and plausible, but at the moment we have no way to confirm they were used as such, and may never do.

marcodiego | karma 25112 | avg karma 7.05 · | 2022-04-01 12:44:40

Hmmm... it is lacking batteries, right?

danuker | karma 6850 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2023-01-16 10:58:02

I think it remains to be seen, as batteries wear out. That could take years.