Great article - thanks very much for this! Batteries are now on their own Moore's Law exponential curve. This will help greatly in a few years when a home solar and battery installation costs half or a quarter as much as it does now. A hint: the electrical boxes for managing the power from panels, batteries, and the mains will be a next point of serious investment, especially when homeowners get the rights everywhere to sell power back to the local utilities.
Somewhere around 1990 my brother let me borrow his cell phone. It was the size of a small briefcase, and 90% of that was battery. My, how things have changed.
EV battery development will no doubt mimic that of cell phones. I have no doubt that as EV sales increase, more and more money will be available for battery R&D, which will make EVs progressively smaller, lighter, cheaper & more ubiquitous - just like cell phones. This is good, because the only thing that will wean capitalists away from their fossils is the opportunity to make even more money with electric vehicles.
Thanks for the good news, Bill. I'll gratefully take whatever I can get these days.
It's comforting to think that we have plenty of mineral resources for the entire energy transition. It means that we don't have to be in so much of a rush that we can't take the time to mine them responsibly. (Is it even possible to "mine responsibly"? I think if we tried, we could find a way to at least mitigate and minimize the damage environmentally, and maybe dispense with the child slavery. But that would mean taking market capitalism as the driving force in this effort out of the driver's seat) I encourage everyone to read "Cobalt Red" by Siddarth Kara.
Of course we must make this transition. We also must do it right.
Great article - thanks very much for this! Batteries are now on their own Moore's Law exponential curve. This will help greatly in a few years when a home solar and battery installation costs half or a quarter as much as it does now. A hint: the electrical boxes for managing the power from panels, batteries, and the mains will be a next point of serious investment, especially when homeowners get the rights everywhere to sell power back to the local utilities.
Somewhere around 1990 my brother let me borrow his cell phone. It was the size of a small briefcase, and 90% of that was battery. My, how things have changed.
EV battery development will no doubt mimic that of cell phones. I have no doubt that as EV sales increase, more and more money will be available for battery R&D, which will make EVs progressively smaller, lighter, cheaper & more ubiquitous - just like cell phones. This is good, because the only thing that will wean capitalists away from their fossils is the opportunity to make even more money with electric vehicles.
Thanks for the good news, Bill. I'll gratefully take whatever I can get these days.
It's comforting to think that we have plenty of mineral resources for the entire energy transition. It means that we don't have to be in so much of a rush that we can't take the time to mine them responsibly. (Is it even possible to "mine responsibly"? I think if we tried, we could find a way to at least mitigate and minimize the damage environmentally, and maybe dispense with the child slavery. But that would mean taking market capitalism as the driving force in this effort out of the driver's seat) I encourage everyone to read "Cobalt Red" by Siddarth Kara.
Of course we must make this transition. We also must do it right.
Carry on.
Thanks for this dose of enthusiasm, Bill!
Loved the beaver story. Thanks.