Welcome to Nintendo's future : Battery breakthrough in science

[DanneSandin]

happydolphin said:

DanneSandin said:
Holy shit, that's pretty awesome!! But I don't think we'll find this tech in the next gen Nintendo consoles... I think it's like at least 10 years away from being used by the public. But cool nonetheless!

You can use a household CD player to make the graphene sheets, I can't imagine it would take that long to pump these out in the mass. CD writers are already mass-produced. From the documentary it doesn't seem like there was much calibration done to the optical drive, but even if so, if they pulled it off I'm sure CD-recording machines could also be calibrated for this kind of application.

The graphite oxide composite is dispersed into a liquid solution (from what I understood here), and that solution can be used on plastic (like CD players) and once submitted to light (like the optical laser of the CD player), the graphene oxide sheet is created.

I found the raw material (Graphite oxide) sold on ali baba at US $1500-3300 / Metric Ton. That's then diluted into liquid form, imagine how much of that solution can be made with a metric ton, dissolved.

It might be easy to produce in the lab, but mass production is an entirely different matter. You gotta build the machines that does this all day every day, and they'll have to produce a shit ton of it all day every day. And then you have to interest other companies that this is the shit! Just imagine how all the oil companies (like BP and whatnot) will react if every car starts running on this - or how entire countries will react! Or all the battery manufactorers... There will be quite a few sad faces that will try and stop this. So 10 years from now is probably a bit optimistic... But I think Nintendo should get this material asap!!! But chances as Sony will try as well....