Stimulus Could Kickstart US Battery Industry

Al sends along a Technology Review piece that begins "Provisions in the Congressional stimulus bill could help jump-start a new, multibillion-dollar industry in the US for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrids and electric vehicles and for storing energy from the electrical grid to enable the widespread use of renewable energy. The nearly $790 billion economic stimulus legislation contains tens of billions of dollars in loans, grants, and tax incentives for advanced battery research and manufacturing, as well as incentives for plug-in hybrids and improvements to the electrical grid, which could help create a market for these batteries. Significant advances in battery materials, including the development of new lithium-ion batteries, have been made in the US in the past few years; but advanced battery manufacturing is almost entirely overseas, particularly in Asia."

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and i want flying cars

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and i want jessica biel in my bed

in the meantime, reality unfortunately dictates you are stuck with batteries, the bus stop, and an empty bed

of course batteries suck. it is not good enough for you to want something better than what we all realize is an awful compromise

so stop stating the braindead obvious and go out and go out and make what you want real. you will find out what we all have found out already: current technology makes it incrediby difficult to do better than heavy weak slowly charging nasty batteries

your capacitors and flywheels, for instance: not as stable as batteries