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OccasionalCortex says

It doesn't really. It just binds it to oxygen and energy is released from that. A form of chemical combustion like a fuel cell does with Oxygen and Hydrogen to make water + energy.
The electrolytes are the problem as far as damaging the aluminum is concerned.

These batteries are not rechargeable - you can't turn some form of Al2O3 which is the result of reaction back into Al easily. So, after you drive xx miles, you would need to remove Al2O3 from your car and stick another piece of aluminum into your battery. I do not think this battery is practical in anything other than devices which are used once, such as naval torpedoes etc.

jazz_music says

The internet was made by my generation, like the Apollo program,

The youngest Apollo astronaut was Charles Duke, he was born October 3, 1935. The Apollo program was on December 7-19, 1972. The oldest boomer was 1973-1945 = 28

jazz_music says

the integrated circuit,

The Integrated circuit was made around 1960.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit#First_integrated_circuits

The oldest baby boomer was 1960-1945 = 15.

jazz_music says

the Space Shuttle

Oh yeah, that thing that blew up 2 times, and had a (2/134) = 1.49% failure rate. Way to go!

jazz_music says

all that taxpayer funded work gets handed over to brutal capitalists for nothing, and then turned into weapons of war.

We did not restart the Cold War. The Silent Generation ended that, largely by luck and the incompetence of the USSR (not to mention it's corruption) - your generation is trying to restart it - but I expect incompetence will put an end to the US Federal government itself.

And good riddance. It's totally corrupted.

jazz_music says

And government is going to stay corrupt until we force them to be honest.

No, it's going to collapse. Force the government to be honest?

Let's see, George H Bush lied the nation into a war.

William Clinton sold out the nation to NAFTA and traded secrets with the Chinese with Loral. He opened up the country to H1B's and basically ruined what could have been a great relationship with Russia.

George W. Bush even more blatantly lied us into a war and frankly probably Afghanistan. Lot of suspicious crap about 9/11 but engh, no point in going there. BTW Michael Chertoff, that ghoul that ran "homeland" security, made a ton of money installing those radiation machines in airports also Dick Cheney setup Halliburton real well too. When the 2007 financial crisis came around, nothing happened, and it was expected the next administration would at least look at it.

Obama lied us into Iraq and Syria, refused to prosecute any banking criminals, and let the secretary of the state sell her office to the highest bidder, as Joe Biden was also selling his office in Ukraine and China. Clinton laundered information on an unsecured server, the DOJ refused to prosecute even though they caught her red handed on Title 18 violations (it's not she's SUSPECTED, she's guilty and they will not enforce the law), there's been a 2 1/2 year coup attempt to remove the president conducted by the intelligence agencies, and the remnants of our "news" media have dropped all pretense of producing anything that is true and will blatantly lie.

Last time it could be reformed was 8 years ago.

jazz_music says

Elect the one who will respond hopefully to the will of the people

Haha - it doesn't matter who you elect.

Do you believe we have a bureaucracy that determines what actually is policy and places pressure on lawmakers and other elected officials to do what they want collectively, as they act as a fat lazy mafia of communists? That's our deep state! You could elect God and it wouldn't change anything.

We're collapsing baby! I told you, the boomers screwed over their parents, then their kids using the government to transfer wealth to them. Who is going to keep the stockmarket up, and fund the 20 trillion dollar debt, the housing markets, and the credit markets? The MILLENNIALS? End of the line. Think they are going to pay for your Social Security, as you start to draw money out of the stockmarket? Either the Fed will just print money to buy stocks destroying the dollar, OR the stock market plummets - if it's the second a private central bank is going to own most of the stockmarket, and we'll end up in communism or fascism. I bet, again, the boomers will be ecstatic with that.

That National Debt doubles ever 8 years, on average, regardless of who is president and has since 1971. That started to break down toward the end of Obama's term. Do you think it's because we had a roaring economy, or now, it's necessary just to lie about it, so the US dollar doesn't go to 0 over night.

jazz_music says

No president will ever be your savior.

Oh I know that. It will either be military revolution, civil war, or just collapse - remember what happened to Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife?

I'm sorry, but people have been reasonable for a long time, a lot longer than it was reasonable to be reasonable.

The military is the most betrayed as well. Lot of kids signed up after 9/11 "to protect the nation" who are realizing they just got misused. They have a tremendously high suicide rate. I wouldn't be surprised to see a coup from the military - from the ground up.

jazz_music says

Inundation with lies robs truth and reality of their power. Even obvious lies are higher effective at shaping public opinion.

Yep, we saw that with Globalist backed Kavanaugh hearings, the Trump groped 1000 women in first class, and with the whistleblower nonsense. "Look at the number of weak claims with no evidence behind them made by people getting paid or linked to dem groups!"

NoCoupForYou says

the Trump groped 1000 women in first class

And a hell of a lot more than that on his private plane!

It all depends on the definition of "rich". Case in point: AMT was initially designed to tax 200 or so wealthiest families. We all know how that turned out.

Liberal_in_blackface says

It all depends on the definition of "rich". Case in point: AMT was initially designed to tax 200 or so wealthiest families. We all know how that turned out.

One of the best attributes of the "Trump" tax plan for me was the change to AMT. It's now much harder to get caught up in AMT.

jazz_music says

Now that we’ve been suckered into electing a far right wing messianic authoritarian

This is just mindless drivel.

Define "right wing"
Define "left wing"
Define "messianic"
Define "authoritarian".

When describing "right wing", the definition will have to fit all the way back to Nixon.
When describing "left wing", the definition will have to fit all the way back to Carter.

People just make these mindless accusations. You don't even know what left or right wing is. You just use it as a replacement for "Democrat" and "Republican", not realize those parties have no core principles, at all - because "left and right wing sound scary". No wonder so many people ignore you.

And Richwicks is likely a Russian Troll.

Chiromancer says

And Richwicks is likely a Russian Troll.

Hey Patrick, want to meet up? Beer or coffee? Also, Sunnyvale, Campbell, or Mountain View? I don't want to put up with Palo Alto.

I'd recommend Campbell - there's more variety there, the vibe is low key, and it's very dog friendly - although mine are gone, I do like to still meet them, although it's late in the year.

See if I'm a Rooskie!!!

Chiromancer - I'm not just a gullible dummy that swallows government loads of crap. You ought to be embarassed of how little skepticism you have. A democratic system requires a skeptical population, communists and fascists have total faith and trust in their "good government".

A passport was recovered on 9/11 after it went through a crash and a fireball that brought down buildings.

You have to ask, why would they plant a passport when it's so freaking unbelievable that one could survive?

Why not? They have complete contempt for you. They just don't care about making propaganda believable anymore.

richwicks says

Hey Patrick, want to meet up? Beer of coffee

Beer of coffee? Lol. Joking aside, thought Patrick was a wine guy.

richwicks says

See if I'm a Rooskie!!!

We have plenty of Rooskies, a.k.a 1st generation Russian-Americans, visa holders, & tourists, right here in Brighton MA.

Rin says

richwicks says

See if I'm a Rooskie!!!

We have plenty of Rooskies, a.k.a 1st generation Russian-Americans, visa holders, & tourists, right here in Brighton MA.

I was a Massahole for a period of time when I worked for Motorola in Mansfield.

There's a few Russians here in Silly-con Valley. I'm actually 1/2 3rd generation Pollack (and yea, that's the correct spelling for a Pole). That side of the family got out just before the Nazis came in, the Poland was abandoned to the USSR. Dumb idiot kids that think that communism is a good idea have literally no idea what it was like. My family used to send care packages in the 1980s to the other half of the family - half the stuff would be stolen before the family got it.

Think your government is filled with thieving fucks now? Wait until it's ONLY the government that exists, and there's absolutely no competition for ANY service.

jazz_music says

@truthhurts if all this says to you is TDS then you are indeed sick.

‘There is definite hanky-panky going on, to the world’s financial markets’ detriment. This is abysmal.’

That’s one longtime CME trader’s troubling assessment of what he views as stock-market manipulation the likes of which he hasn’t seen since al Qaeda cashed in before initiating the Sept. 11 attacks.

Omg did an unnamed source say ORANGE MAN BAD! This sounds serious!

Let me know when any investigation turns up any actual evidence that Trump was involved in any insider trading. Until then this is just another nothing burger story.

I understand that Trump is also the architect of all epoch destroying meteorite impacts for the next 10,000 years.

In these batteries you basically use aluminum as fuel - not too much different than burning gasoline although I suspect that internal combustion engine might be somewhat less efficient than electrical. The question then becomes, what is cost of aluminum relative to gasoline or heating fuel. I do not know which one is cheaper, but producing Al requires a lot of energy for the same reason that these batteries are efficient, that is aluminum- oxygen bonds are very strong.

6rdB says

I do not know which one is cheaper, but producing Al requires a lot of energy for the same reason that these batteries are efficient, that is aluminum- oxygen bonds are very strong.

Which more or less means that they need to be re-processed at some chemical plant than in someone's home which implies that there may not be a viable infrastructure to keep a resident supply of reconditioned batteries lying around for the mass markets.

Yes, and since Al2O3 is very common, it may be cheaper to cart spent batteries off to landfill.

Depends on the efficiency of the conversion to electricity, which I bet is low.

You pretty much start out with an Aluminum oxide when you pull it out of the ground. Then you put in a TON of energy (forget the named process), and you get aluminum. Basically, although the "battery" has good energy density, it's got crap for efficiency. News articles always produce this kind of bullshit periodically.

In the 1970s during the so-called "energy crisis", an inventor made an aluminum block interact with water to produce aluminum oxide as a power, and free hydrogen gas. I think it got something like a total of 300 miles before it ran out of fuel. What you ended up with was a bunch of white paste which was the aluminum oxide, which is at least supposedly inert.

The recycle this story every decade or so and it sounds great!! Until you know you realize it's unworkable. Basically, journalists aren't your friend, and they never tell you about an invention first.

Here, heard about the RISC-V architecture? There's a good chance it will be competing (and well) against both ARM and x86 within 3 years. You won't care though, it targets servers first and will probably still be in the alpha stage by 2021.

richwicks says

See if I'm a Rooskie

To paraphrase the Bard: The troll doth protest too much, me thinks. Da?

jazz_music says

richwicks says

You don't even know what left or right wing is. You just use it as a replacement for "Democrat" and "Republican", not realize those parties have no core principles, at all - because "left and right wing sound scary". No wonder so many people ignore you.

You know what, I had enough of your shit.

Goodbye sugarplum

You don't know what left and right is. Nobody does. It's just two terms people use without thinking.

There's no ideology or principles of EITHER. Generally "left" just means "change" and "right" means "don't change". What is left wing in one era is right wing in another.

What? End slavery, and abolish drinking, and let your wife have a job and vote? Good lord, what a left wing whacko - because it WAS. The terms are meaningless going back even 30 years ago.

jazz_music says

Even obvious lies are higher effective at shaping public opinion.

There are a few people on this forum that know this all too well.

Chiromancer says

richwicks says

See if I'm a Rooskie

To paraphrase the Bard: The troll doth protest too much, me thinks. Da?

Shit, I live right in the same area Patrick does. I don't have a trace of an accent, because... I'm not Russian.

Although I do know a few jokes. In the mid 1980's it was said of the two major Soviet Papers: Izvestia had no news and Pravda had no truth. The joke here is Izvestia is Russian for news, and Pravda is Russian for truth. So really the joke is "News has no news, and Truth has no truth".

That's our media today.

jazz_music says

OccasionalCortex says

And how is Trump involved in drone strikes the Iranians were behind?

READ THE LINK

Read the comment. He was addressing the quote from the article AF posted.

After reading the article, you can't help but just skip this line I suppose:

Are the people behind these trades incredibly lucky, or do they have access to information that other people don’t have about, say, Trump’s or Beijing’s latest thinking on the trade war or any other of a number of ways that Trump is able to move the markets through his tweeting or slips of the tongue?

Or this line:

One longtime CME trader who has been watching with disgust says he’s never seen anything quite like these trades, not at least since al-Qaida cashed in before initiating the September 11 attacks.

But hey, it could only be Trump that's involved. He IS "insider" trading. Never foreign manipulation, never... Is it illegal for a sitting President to talk about non-classified things with the public or other private citizens with regards to what is going on? They can investigate all they want and he WILL know someone involved in these trades. If you think there's something, I'm afraid you're massively mistaken.

The impeachment inquiry is going into the basement of the House of Reps. Why? Because it's dead and they know it. So what do they do? Stick their hand back in the toilet and grab more shit with this story. People need to wake up. You're nuts if you trust the entrenched political class. You used to hate them likely and now what they're doing is golden. Makes no sense.

Okay, so just checking. Still no actual evidence of insider trading? Yep. Okay thanks.

I always rely on vanityfair for financial news

komputodo says

I always rely on vanityfair for financial news

Lol. The headline is from the CME trader saying he thinks something fishy is going on. And the the author (or Vanityfair editors) places the blame on Trump. I would equally shoot this piece down if it was written about Obama. It's trash.

I wonder how actual, true journalistic pieces are manipulated by editors and headline writers? If there are any real journalist left, it has got to be tough as you know your work is going to be shredded to fit a narrative. You then sit there, WTF? That's not at all what I wrote.

Yes, some of the "news" articles have so many holes they would not even be good editorials.

TDS

If Trump is re-elected, I am going to drown myself in Pol Roger and Bollinger hopefully with female company.

He will get revenge on the assholes in the Obama administration who spied on him during the 2016 campaign.

He will get another supreme court justice in there when Ruth shuffles off her mortal coil or strokes out.

The stock market will continue to rock and make us investors more $$.

I'll believe it when I plug the thing in and it works as advertised

Fuckyouasshole says

I'll believe it when I plug the thing in and it works as advertised

There is nothing to plug in: it's a chemical non-rechargeable battery, like your average AA or D cell. When it's flat - you throw it away and buy a new one.

Don't hold your breath. Why complicate matters and try to power a car with them.........power a few dozen houses first......should be a lot easier......no size or weight restrictions..

Yah powering a house with this would be at cross purposes. You want a rechargeable battery for that. This would be best for mobile applications like drones or aircraft or automobiles.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

The guy is a laugh riot!

Read the memo!

Because this nitwit ^^^^ doesn't know what a link is, nor apparently a date, or an article, or a reference.

Quigley says

Yah powering a house with this would be at cross purposes. You want a rechargeable battery for that. This would be best for mobile applications like drones or aircraft or automobiles.

How about just to see that it works? Why complicate things.....See how long it lasts..

NYT trying to change Hillary's narrative to Republicans..

www.youtube.com/embed/tzTod38VS8c

komputodo says

See how long it lasts..

You don't have much faith in engineers, models, or predictions do you?

OccasionalCortex says

Most people are not thinking ahead. Specifically, I refer to what will happen if Trump wins re-election.

Specifically, I refer to what will happen WHEN Trump wins re-election.

richwicks says

komputodo says

See how long it lasts..

You don't have much faith in engineers, models, or predictions do you?

To fair, the tech writers of 8 years ago were certain of self driving cars and air taxis in common use by now.