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AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium (www.newscientist.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Every time we get one of these articles we see some advancement in battery tech. But that is usually superseded by the amount of power hungry components new tech uses. So phones have gotten more complex with more power hungry components and every time we improve battery tech, the tech giants engineers figure out a way to utilise that new tech to cram more power hungry components inside and that's why batteries don't last as long as we remember.

There's no need to get excited. Even if we end up using this in new gadgets, you're not going to see an improvement in battery life.

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

It's kind of like CPU power and software bloat.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There’s no need to get excited. Even if we end up using this in new gadgets, you’re not going to see an improvement in battery life.

That's too much of a blanket statement to be believable as factual truth.