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Plan to commercialize supercapacitors in the next few years

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[โ€“] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just try this as an exercise. Keep a journal of how many world changing batteries are presented by the MIT PR department from today, through one year. Three years later, open the journal and see how many have found any meaningful application in the real world.

You gave a link to the MIT PR department. Like, yeah, that's my point. They are phenomenal at tooting their own horn. But the conversion rate to there actually being a there there is extremely low.

[โ€“] elbarto777@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Oh I see! Fair enough.