No? Even if the new battery is 3x more expensive to build, and has 50 % of the capacity of a Li-ion battery, it can still have an advantage in large scale storage if it lasts for 10x as many cycles without degrading. At the end of the day, it’s a combination of parameters that determine which is the best for a given application, and high resistance to degradation can outweigh other parameters in many scenarios.

What did they get banned for??

Come on… I agree that it’s possible, maybe even plausible, that this was staged, but you can’t honestly claim to be sceptical if you think the most likely situation here was that this was staged when you have no hard evidence at all. I’m not saying it wasn’t staged, I’m saying that the sceptical approach is to recognise that anything coming out of the White House is a half-truth at best, that there is exists a motive for staging this, and that it could be staged. At this point we have nowhere near enough evidence to conclude either way.

Besides, there are plenty of people that want trump dead. I don’t see it as unlikely that one of them decided to give it a shot here.

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Palantíri

How Are so many people so ignorant and confident at the same time? You’re all acting like you know what you’re talking about…

I have no idea what you’re talking about… humans are around 1-2m tall, weigh about 40-80kg, have a body temperature of about 37 C, and need to drink a couple litres of water per day. How are these units not the proper order of magnitude for measuring things “on a human scale”?

Lo be unto the metric users, that the units of length and volume conveniently sync up!

How many cubic inches is a gallon btw?

I’m upvoting just to counterbalance the people downvoting because they dislike someone else’s subjective opinion.

While that’s true, it’s worth remembering that congresspeople and senators see these results, and take them into account when deciding whether to support or oppose trump. If his approval rating gets low enough, other politicians will start seeing it as detrimental to their careers to support him. If just a few republican senators or congressmen start actively opposing him, his power will be significantly reduced. If it goes low enough they might even decide that it’s in their own best interest to either impeach or 25th him. The last two are a loong shot, but the point stands that terrible approval ratings can actually have tangible impact on things.

Saying you’re surprised something hasn’t happened is a long shot from encouraging that it’s done.

With the amount of unstable and desperate people out there I’m surprised nobody’s kidnapped Elon musks kids for ransom. I don’t wish his kids any harm, and don’t hope it happens, but I’m still a bit surprised that it hasn’t happened when you consider the amount of people out there with nothing to lose, questionable morals, and a big desire to make a lot of money.

The damaging kind necessarily carries enough energy to cause damage, what’s preventing it from being harvested?

Isn’t a major challenge of trying to surpass Voyager 1 that it had extremely good conditions for slingshotting off a lot of planets?