<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-09-21 3:47 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lkcl@lkcl.net" target="_blank">lkcl@lkcl.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">---<br>
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Paul Boddie <<a href="mailto:paul@boddie.org.uk">paul@boddie.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I don't really want to weigh in on a topic that I don't have any specific<br>
> interest or expertise in, but my impression was (Musk aside) that nobody<br>
> really expects battery technology to stick with lithium or "rare earths".<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Musk's take of the cut, drivers others to find alternatives.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">
> Here, progress in materials science appears to be driving development towards<br>
> more mundane materials.<br>
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</span> that just leaves copper.  if there existed a room-temperature<br>
flexible superconductor replacement we'd do okay.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We're getting there:</div><div><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Timeline_of_Superconductivity_from_1900_to_2015.svg">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Timeline_of_Superconductivity_from_1900_to_2015.svg</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://phys.org/news/2016-02-graphene-superconductiveelectrons-mass-resistance.html">http://phys.org/news/2016-02-graphene-superconductiveelectrons-mass-resistance.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>But it'll take a while before production. But the higher the demands on batteries and semiconductors. The harder the search for alternatives.</div><div><br></div><div>All semiconductor companies have serious trouble further miniaturizing silicon lithography. If we find ways to reduce resistance in the materials than the miniaturization becomes less of an issue.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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