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  • The upside, in short, is density.

    The silicon batteries can store alot more power in the same size and weight.

    That means you can put alot more power into your existing size of hardware.

    It’s also extremely beneficial for electric cars, which can either lower the weight on the car or put more juice in it. Both increasing the range.

    For your point about replaceable batteries, it’s true. If we can replace batteries, the hardware will not be lost. But everything comes down to how often we need to replace them. How fast does these batteries really degrade in real world use? It can leave us with even worse ecological challenges and might be very expensive. We need a strong reuse culture for this to not be a new catastrophic environmental case.

    The real deal is this though:

    A third option is Solid State Batteries and is still the best solution for the future, but it’s not fully ready for commercial use yet. They do not seem to have any of the downsides from both lithium and silicon. But again, it’s not ready.


  • Yes, in phones we can limit the damage by using slow chargers.

    But when it gets hot, it’s also a lot worse than with lithium. Not only do they degrade permanently, but they also loose more power while in the given operation.

    Meaning while hot, your battery might burn 10% but only use 5% worth of power.

    Some phones also gets hot when gaming or shooting pics or videos because of the CPU. If the thermals are manged poorly, it can permanently damage the battery as well, which we do not see in lithium.


  • They have two downsides but more upsides.

    The silicon is not without limitation and will degrade faster. You will see your battery becoming worse and worse, but I’m not sure how fast it will break even with a traditional Li-Ion battery, calculating in the higher density in silicon.

    The other downside is that silicon does not work as well in higher temperatures, and that can be a problem if the battery gets too hot. It’s the same mechanism in CPUs also consisting of silicon. They will be considerably worse performing at high temperature.

    I hope they can improve on this, but it might be limitations of silicon as a material, meaning not much can be achieved.















  • I know there’s a lot of different definitions on fascism, but one of them originated from Italy is, that the state and corporations act together. In this case, the US tries to bully Taiwan corporations to do their bidding “or else”.

    I know some would say it dosent count because the Taiwan firm can do as it pleases, but it becomes fascism when the Taiwan government now need to force the corporation to do as the US says.

    Indirect fascism. But then again there’s also parts of the US that’s not fascism, and then we can keep on going.