I remember talking about lithium and sodium for rechargeable batteries in my junior high or high school chemistry class while covering electron affinity, maybe 1993:
As I get older, I see that innovation happens despite the tech industry, not because of it. Because so many ideas are obvious and straightforward to implement that only gatekeeping could work at a scale large enough to prevent them from manifesting.
I have not investigated the history of li-ion batteries at all, other than notable dates around the year 2000 that I quote for rants like this. But I would wager that the reason Goodenough's batteries took off is that he went through profitable channels so the military industrial complex and corporate competitors couldn't suppress them.
1979. So li-ion batteries were suppressed until Obama's reelection around 2012, when the writing was on the wall and car manufacturers were forced to release electric vehicles that weren't terrible. So a 33 year gap where batteries, photovoltaics, etc etc etc could have kept CO2 out of the atmosphere:
So today's 420 ppm minus 340 ppm around 1979 equals 80 ppm, where each ppm is 2.13 gigaton, so about 170 gigatons of CO2 leaked into the atmosphere to preserve the profits of the fossil fuel industry and other moneyed interests of the status quo.
Let this be a cautionary tale, but also inspiration for fellow inventors. The thing stopping you from success is probably not the thing itself, but the real-life hurdles conspiring against you. IMHO the best defense against that is each other.
https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoret...
As I get older, I see that innovation happens despite the tech industry, not because of it. Because so many ideas are obvious and straightforward to implement that only gatekeeping could work at a scale large enough to prevent them from manifesting.
I have not investigated the history of li-ion batteries at all, other than notable dates around the year 2000 that I quote for rants like this. But I would wager that the reason Goodenough's batteries took off is that he went through profitable channels so the military industrial complex and corporate competitors couldn't suppress them.
Actually I'm completely wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_lithium-ion_bat...
1979. So li-ion batteries were suppressed until Obama's reelection around 2012, when the writing was on the wall and car manufacturers were forced to release electric vehicles that weren't terrible. So a 33 year gap where batteries, photovoltaics, etc etc etc could have kept CO2 out of the atmosphere:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...
So today's 420 ppm minus 340 ppm around 1979 equals 80 ppm, where each ppm is 2.13 gigaton, so about 170 gigatons of CO2 leaked into the atmosphere to preserve the profits of the fossil fuel industry and other moneyed interests of the status quo.
Let this be a cautionary tale, but also inspiration for fellow inventors. The thing stopping you from success is probably not the thing itself, but the real-life hurdles conspiring against you. IMHO the best defense against that is each other.