Welcome to Nintendo's future : Battery breakthrough in science

[DanneSandin]

happydolphin said:

DanneSandin said:

I don't think it's that easy... You can't simply use a CD-burner to mass produce these kind of things. You have to have the right shapes on these things and it has to be done fast in large quantities. The technology is there, yes, but right now we're a while away from seeing this on the market. And you more or less just skipped the rest of my argument...

The reason I skipped the rest of your argument is that batteries are ubiquitous, so oil companies have no say in the matter if foxconn needs them for their next ipad supply chain.

As for usng a CD-burner to mass produce them, how do you think CD's are recorder and distributed to retail outlets in massive quantities? You got it, there are machines for that, stacked burners that do all that the video showed in mass-production. They could be tweacked like the lab guy did with his recorder to perform the same purpose.

The challenge is after that: how to mangle the paper into a battery form so compact and automate it all. That's the real challenge. Making the graphene oxide massively is the easy part.

A lot of companies and even countries will be upset if their main source of income becomes obsolete in just a manor of a few years...

Yes, the technology more or less just needs to be tweaked, but as you said: there is more to it that simply making the material - they need to work on other things as well.