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U.S. Battery Consortium Seeks $1B: Is It a Waste?

"There is no Moore’s Law for batteries, people. Get used to it. Semiconductors can double in performance every two years because engineers have found ways to steadily decrease the size of transistors. It’s a lucky combination of hard work and physics."

THANKS FOR STATING COMMON SENSE! Every new 'tech trend' tries to glom on to the 'moore's law' concept without understanding how and why it works. It works because you advance the lithography a bit and you can build 2X the transistors on the same area of silicon. You CANNOT ride moore's law to heaven in these other areas (it holds for solar PV too).

The best you can do is figure out how to get higher energy density per volume/cm^3 or weight/gram in the battery.

Research Consortia funding does help at some level, but the author is basically right. Given the fact that we will squander billions on a so-called 'stimulus' I think we could do worse than to help build up battery research, development and manufacturing here.