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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: maleetronic on October 01, 2017, 11:51:00 am
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Just found this in my news today and thought someone maybe interested in to read this.
What you think when they will be ready to buy?
https://www.qut.edu.au/institute-for-future-environments/about/news/news?news-id=122958 (https://www.qut.edu.au/institute-for-future-environments/about/news/news?news-id=122958)
Mark
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As off the shelf product, probably never.
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I would love for something like that to gain traction in Australia ... but it would take some rare volume and price outcomes to achieve a viable commercial business (I hesitate to think about an industry.)
I wish them well.
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That article describes both the manufacturing process and the product itself as just another me too, without identifying a single thing that would allow them to muscle in against established players who are way down the learning curve. Unless they have something interesting up their sleeves, it sounds like a project designed to failed.
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What typically happens with good ideas out of Australia (and we've had some terrific ones) is that they have to move offshore for survival.
Really frustrating.
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Do the batteries require special circuitry to reverse the current flow when exported to the northern hemisphere or does the change in the Coriolis effect cause a self correction? ;D :-DD
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Nothing so exotic as the Coriolis effect.
When the batteries get tipped over, having crossed the equator, the electrons just fall out the other end.
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Nothing so exotic as the Coriolis effect.
When the batteries get tipped over, having crossed the equator, the electrons just fall out the other end.
:palm: Of course...