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Originally Posted by teh603
Probably because there's too much money in replacing existing batteries and increasing humanity's landfill waste, and not enough real desire to change things for the better?
Everything's about profit these days, and a technology that could change the world is worth more being suppressed than it is being implemented.
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This assumes that the Big Battery Conglomeration is bigger and more powerful than the Big Technology Conglomeration. I assume that Apple, Samsung, and the rest would love to have better batteries to pump up sales. How many people would dump their version 1.0 device for a version 1.000000001 device in which the battery lasts twice as long between charges.
The other difficulty with suppressing advances is that in order to apply for a patent it becomes public information. Once the patent expires anyone can access the specs and build it.