WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS A GOOD FIVE-CENT BATTERY | 2007-07-06
I was discussing the Dick Tracy wrist radio of the 1950s comics. One day it was impossible, the next day it was part of the inevitable future. William Shockley, one of those who was on our side on racial differences later, invented the transistor. One no longer needed a vacuum tube and the minimum rather substantial power needed for it.
If we found a battery which was an equal improvement on our present truly primitive ones, the same thing would happen. Right now there is lots of argument over nuclear power and so forth, but when we can produce energy anywhere and put it in cartable batteries, places will be found and new energy sources would explode into existence.
Coal and iron were resources countries fought over in 1914. Now we have more of both than we need. A cartable battery would do the same thing to oil.