After the announcement of the super fast recharging battery, cold fusion makes a return to the front news. It is good to see innovators and researchers putting some resources on these questions, and getting some love from mass media. Let’s hope this really works:

[…] a laptop would come precharged with all of the energy that you would ever intend to use. You’re now decoupled from your charger and the wall socket,”

The same would go for cars. “The potential is for an energy source that would run your car for three, four years, for example. And you’d take it in for service every four years and they’d give you a new power supply,”

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So what do you do if you are working on an electric car project, or if you are a utility company investing in buiding an electricity network? Could this be something that delays investment in, for example, a network of battery recharging stations for cars? What kind of money will you make if suddenly cars come with 4 years battery? This better happen - or not happen - fast so that we know on what foot to dance on.

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