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Reasons I'm suspicious:

* article leads with "in production" but it sounds like they are still at the design phase. production of prototypes maybe?

* they are doing a lot of "talking" and "partnering" but not so much selling mentioned.

* they are "known for" their similar work in the ultra-capacitor market but the linked page's top comment is "still waiting for a product".

* PR about raising funding and starting soon but not a lot of PR about actual products and results.

Am I being too cynical - does anybody know if they are for real?




"If its too good to be true..."

Its healthy to be skeptical until an extraordinary is proven.

Meanwhile can I interest you in investing in my hydrogen truck company called TeslaNikola? Its carbon free, costs close to nothing to run. We have a working prototype capable of going downhill.


Too bad Nikola Tesla didn't had a middle name.


How about Wardenclyffe, or Smiljna - both sound like reasonable company names to me.


Niagra?


> Am I being too cynical

Nope, I don't think so; battery breakthroughs are reported (probably) several times a month, but what eventually becomes available to the consumer is more evolutionary than revolutionary; we've NEVER experienced a 2x jump in battery capacity for example, it's always been incremental.

That said, I may need to take that back; this page (https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/19/bloombergnef-lithium-io...) seems to indicate that li-ion battery capacity seems to have doubled or tripled since 2010, while prices dropped by 87%.


The author probably doesn't know how we read articles like this. A wild discovery in it self is fun but one doesn't expect to see products (anymore/any-time-soon).

Then towards the end he writes: "The company has moved past its pilot unit and now has a full production unit up and running"

:o




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