And yet it was the whacko right wing nuts that do not want stiff safety measures on companies. As such, we get meltdowns because if right wing nuts. We need to push gen IV reactors, but again, the far right wing nut jobs want to push ge and Westinghouse old gen III garbage.

Sigh. As somebody said, those are safety measures and they are esp. needed for all the gen III crap out there. Instead , we should be doing gen IV such as trans atomic and flible.

Yes, but you have to start it with gas/diesel. That is the only way to get a real bang for the night.

For a grade schooler, it is just as hard. And for many of those critters, they read legaleaze the way I would read C++, C, perl, java, bash, etc. IOW, it is not a big deal for them.

I googled for 'costs of lithium'.
You googled for 'price of lithium'. I think that yours is the real price for lithium, whereas mine is probably processed.
Regardless, pretty damn cheap for lithium.

Actually, South Korea, Vietnam, etc all have similar issues with this.
BUT, you are right. Japan does NOT belong in this category.

And yes, China is by far, the worst.

what a moron.
DO you have ANY clue of how stupid your comments are? The bill has less words than a harry potter book. Now, if a grade schooler can read harry potter, do you really think that not a one of the congress critters or their assistents ever read it? If you believe that, then you are even more stupid.

And it was obvious what was wanted by the framers as well as those that voted on the bill.

The ONLY way that that could happen is if the constitution was thrown out.
As it is, it is obvious that Scalia, Alito, and Thomas do not give 1 shit about the constitution and hope to simply legislate from the bench.

Basically, those 3 are some of the worst justices that America has had. I would not be surprised to see 1 or more of these were on the take.

it is the fact that 3 judges actually sided with the idea that this was not legal based on wording.
It means that these 3 did not look at, nor care, about intentions. In addition, even looking at the wording, and taking it to this extreme, shows that these 3 are working hard to legislate via the bench.
These 3 judges are some of the WORST that America has ever had who puts their politcs over the constitution or what our framers wanted.

battery replacement at 150-200K miles? In 10 years? It will be very cheap.

LOL. What a moron. A leaf cost 30K, but, the price of ownership is far less than an ICE car. As such, the real costs is comparable to a 22-25K car.
That is affordable.

Back in the 90's, we had to choose between getting a laptop with ni-mh, OR, paying an extra $300 for li-ion. Now, all laptops are with li-ion.

Uh, no. The real costs is the high temps that are needed. Lithium itself is relatively cheap and relatively little is used. For example, most li-ion batteries are only about 1/20 lithium. So, in the nissan leaf, it only uses 9 lbs of lithium. At current price of 300/lb, that is only $2700 of lithium. So, why does their batteries costs 15,000? Because of the processing that is required. The costs of a li-ion battery is about 2/5 chemicals and 3/5 (or more) in processing costs.

Yeah, if this was somebody else, I would agree with you.
BUT, this is Dr. chiang who has been fairly accurate with all that he publishes.
As such, I would be willing to guess that he is a lot closer to 100 than others.

Most of the announcements by Eastern/South East Asian Academicians, either in east/south east Asia, or in the states, are normally just total BS.
However, Dr. Chiang is the exact opposite. When he speaks, it is always straight forward R&D that he has done. Basically, this is something will make a big difference in batteries.

Now, I wonder, what kind of impact this will have on Tesla and the gigafactory?