Well, I’m still waiting for the graphene solar panels, cold fusion, flying cars, drone deliveries, metal nanoparticle engines, healing nano bots and what not.
I wonder if we’re going to build a Dyson sphere before some of those other things become a reality.
Drone deliveries seemed promising with Amazon, but the core company is so toxic that any tangible product that didn’t come from Lab126 is doomed. Zipline actually has a shot and is actively operating at a massive scale in Rwanda.
The way to look at these is to not focus on any singular technology. Getting to the point where we have EVs that can go >300 miles on a charge was the combination of lots of breakthroughs over the previous 30 years. Some of what you hear are dead ends, but you only need a few to work out to push things to where they need.
Broadly speaking, grid storage is a somewhat easier problem to solve than EVs. They care less about mass, and more about cost per MWh.
Neat.
Remind me to check back in 5 years to see if this ever actually materializes.
Narrator: It didn’t.
No spoiler warnings?
Sorry, I thought we’d all already seen this dozens of times before.
Well, I’m still waiting for the graphene solar panels, cold fusion, flying cars, drone deliveries, metal nanoparticle engines, healing nano bots and what not.
I wonder if we’re going to build a Dyson sphere before some of those other things become a reality.
Drone deliveries seemed promising with Amazon, but the core company is so toxic that any tangible product that didn’t come from Lab126 is doomed. Zipline actually has a shot and is actively operating at a massive scale in Rwanda.
The way to look at these is to not focus on any singular technology. Getting to the point where we have EVs that can go >300 miles on a charge was the combination of lots of breakthroughs over the previous 30 years. Some of what you hear are dead ends, but you only need a few to work out to push things to where they need.
Broadly speaking, grid storage is a somewhat easier problem to solve than EVs. They care less about mass, and more about cost per MWh.