2016-09-21 3:47 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net:
crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Paul Boddie paul@boddie.org.uk wrote:
I don't really want to weigh in on a topic that I don't have any specific interest or expertise in, but my impression was (Musk aside) that nobody really expects battery technology to stick with lithium or "rare earths".
Musk's take of the cut, drivers others to find alternatives.
Here, progress in materials science appears to be driving development
towards
more mundane materials.
that just leaves copper. if there existed a room-temperature flexible superconductor replacement we'd do okay.
We're getting there: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Timeline_of_Superconduct...
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-graphene-superconductiveelectrons-mass-resistan...
But it'll take a while before production. But the higher the demands on batteries and semiconductors. The harder the search for alternatives.
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.
l.
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