NASA’s incredible new solid-state battery pushes the boundaries of energy storage: ‘This could revolutionize air travel’::“We’re starting to approach this new frontier of battery research."

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Quick, let’s sell this US funded tech to the Chinese or Japanese or Germans and not actually benefit from home grown research. This has happened so many times over the decades it’s disgusting.

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      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t this benefit everyone? Presumably the implications are far wider and more important than who makes the most profit from it.

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        Then why shouldn’t “everyone” be funding it??

        Funny how the same people who (rightfully so) complain about privatizing profits but socializing risks, don’t see a problem with research that will benefit everyone should maybe also be funded by everyone.

        If one group is funding that research, then you better believe they should be the ones who overwhelmingly see it’s benefits.

        • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
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          Japanese government has a huge investment in battery tech alongside toyota and other Japanese companies. Solely to boost their economy in the long term

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            Yeah when other countries do it, it is seen as a smart move to help their country and employ their own people for years to come.

            When the US does it, it is somehow demonized as being “nationalist” or labeled as being greedy capitalism or some other negative term.

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              You know you have the top comment right now, right? I think most everyone agrees that the US should be seeing the benefits of its publicly funded research - except some buttsore Europeans who will never miss an opportunity to piss on / armchair general the US.

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      Many large discoveries by research in Australia in universities and CSIRO didn’t get funding they needed in Australia, and the engineers and researchers simply found funding and moved to the United States. Then the US benefited from all that education and university research investment simply because the economy and startup funding was better.

      I guess you know America is on a downturn if they see the same thing happening to them.

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      Quick, let’s sell this US funded tech to the Chinese or Japanese or Germans and not actually benefit from home grown research. This has happened so many times over the decades it’s disgusting.

      If that’s true, why aren’t the Chinese, Japanese and Germans running around with amazing futuristic technology while “we’re” over here still stuck in the stone age?

    • pleasemakesense@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is what the US does to Swedish companies, only with the added benefit of running them into the ground (I’ll never forgive what they did to Saab)