I hope solar energy will become really high-efficient, enough to make them damn oil capitalists to shut up with their imperialistic ambitions.
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batteries are cool. knowing this has improved my emotional state
Mate, technology is surpassing humans, the new solid state batteries are like children - small as heck, but hella energy.
Good news is always important - and this is exciting stuff!
woah so cool!
It's stuff like this, EVs, renewable energy, that make me think maybe humanity isn't so bad after all. That maybe we're not a complete failure as a species. This. This news actually makes me happy.
That's great news! I hope the future of newgrounds always stays bright and away from corporatism
That's great news! I hope the future of newgrounds always stays bright and away from corporatism
This is actually quite wonderful
awesome news fulp! I drive an electric ultralight (a hybrid between a bike and a motorcycle, calable of ~50mph), so am hoping those go mainstream, I would love to see 100 miles of range!
on an unrelated note, I found a bug in your website when viewed on firefox: listening to a piece of music for a long time causes the newgrounds website to lock up visually. it seems to be related to just the audio player...
I'm playing a one hour song in firefox now to see if it happens to me, let me know if you have specific songs where it happened and any estimate of how long the song had to play before it locked up?
@TomFulp it specifically happens to me when I have any song on repeat one. I was playing stuff from waterflame + my own stuff (playlist). it only takes about an hour of waterflame's superwing heroes on repeat for things to start feeling sluggish on the web page.
EDIT: Just thought of something: I know P-Bot is gonna hate me for even suggesting this, but I think this might be related to script cleanup (or the lack thereof) when the audio player is set to repeat 1. perhaps testing with a tiny upload would yield results faster?
I've been looping Superwing Heroes for about three hours now via the song's listen page and I haven't experienced issues yet. Are you looping it within the playlist page, via the audio player in the footer? I'll try that next.
@TomFulp I was using the footer player when experiencing this bug
Are you thinking about powering NG servers with NASA batteries?
No plans for that but who knows maybe some day the hosting facility will use something like that as a backup power system.
Yo! this is actually cool as fuck!! I love keeping up with most of NASA's work (especially the Mars Missions) and I haven't really been able to recently! In terms of NASA batteries and power sources, all I've ever known was that both MER Spirit, MER Opportunity, and most other previous Mars landers and orbiters were solar-powered (which ultimately was both Spirit and Oppy's downfalls due to dust covering their solar panels if I am remembering correctly), MSL Curiosity uses nuclear power, and so does Perseverance (tho I just double checked on Percy, apparently that same generator charges two lithium-ion batteries for when power requirements exceed output! Cool!) I didn't even know solid-state batteries were a thing! maybe NASA will use them for future Mars landers someday :O
wow, that's pretty cool
This does sound hopeful... been a bit dubious about our chosen path of green energy as randomly exploding battery-powered car occurrences seem to be on the rise over here, but maybe that's just the most trending drama atm. First time I hear of this thing. Intriguing.
In regard to cars in particular I think hydrogen would be a better alternative if we start getting surplus electricity again though. Wouldn't need lithium at all there. Cheaper/potentially safer vehicles/less environmental exploitation required all the way. Just need better energy sources to power hydrogen production for starters.
I never thought I'd hype over a New grounds post talking about the development of more efficient batteries but it's a welcome surprise.
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I’ve saved truckloads of money this past year driving the EV I got back in 2018 due to not having to pay close attention to the absurd price volatility of gas + price-gouging from oil companies. Any new progress on the technology that makes it cheaper up-front and more feasible for the rest of us is welcome in my book!