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Originally Posted by New Era
Yet these advancements are happening and are being patented all the time. Again, technological advancements don't come to the market as quickly as we hope, mostly because of legal implications. When they do they normally arrive with little noise because the appear to be old hat. A great example of this is solar cell technology. They have been getting better and better every year but have not got much notice because tha advancements were announced three or four years ago. Saying they are hype is ridiculous as we see the results of research in many technologies around us. You probably talk or post on one of them multiple times a day.
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It's rarely legal, it's far more likely that that it can't be mass produced, or they have a terrible lifespan. And because of evolution and iteration of proven tech like li-ion, even if they do arrive they end up being inferior. But's that not unusal, lots of things that are published end up being that way.
And solar cell's improvements have been mostly in production, they aren't really any more efficient in converting light to electricity and all the extremely efficient cells are far too expensive compared to cheap silicon.