New Liquid Battery

What the heck is in the coffee at MIT? This is the third major energy research advancement in under a year. (The other two are the liquid metal battery and the high efficiency H2O electrolysis catalyst.)

Two months ago I was reading a Danish sustainable energy expert stating the once the US get rolling on sustainable energy, then watch out. Now I understand where he is coming from.

 

Powerful narcotics? Just a guess ...

 

Selenium.

 

Smirk snicker ...

 

MIT is like any other major research university... when the government is looking for a solution , they are willing to pay big bucks and you would be hard pressed to find anything higher than renewable clean energy technology right now.

AND, in this depressed economy i be willing to bet that even the vaunted alumni at MIT are getting bit shortchanged like the rest of us.

being first with major breakthrus, especially in the battery technology field will pretty much garantee MIT BILLIONS in funding from Uncle Sam

**edit**

where is the X prize for this anyway. we have one going for a 100 mpg car, we should be having one for battery tech or energy storage in general

 

It's not that simple. If you want to get funding, you have to present a smart idea to begin with. No amount of government funding can buy real smarts, that has to come from smart people to begin with. No doubt MIT get lots of funding, but the blizzard of really good ideas requires very special coffee.

No need for an X-prize. Properly executed, there is more money to be made than what an X-Prize offers.