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too-legit-to-quit t1_j7kyay3 wrote

New battery tech is like cures for cancer.

Every day there's a new article about some bombshell new direction and none of them ever see the light of day in reality.

At least they're selling ads. Doing god's work.

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invent_or_die t1_j7kz8rt wrote

Baby steps are still steps.

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kidicarus89 t1_j7n0o7v wrote

No these guys want the kind of science that they know from movies, where a lone scientist tinkering in his basement stumbles upon a revolutionary invention purely through sheer determination and luck.

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Shoddy-Return-680 t1_j7nv33p wrote

I was employed at Tesla as a lower-level employee, I invented a technology that was a first review granted patent. I did it on my own in the field and at home under the Tesla umbrella. Sometimes it is a lone scientist in his basement, I don't have a basement though so it was more in the yard at home and on Walmart rooftops during the MC4/Helios H4 thermal event remediation.

"Drying Cartridge for Outdoor Electrical Components" Jonathan Vucic

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JCDU t1_j7l538c wrote

Mostly it's the journalists and/or university PR departments over-hyping it, usually the scientists are just releasing papers that get picked up & blown out of proportion.

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