At one cycle a day that will take awhile.

Cui has previously touted results of a different battery after only eight cycles, so 150 is quite an improvement. They are still a long way from having something ready to sell, and they don't claim otherwise.

I think you ask too little. What get me are quotes like this;

The team is looking at a price point of $25,000 for an EV battery range of 300 miles, which would be competitive with a 40 mpg gasmobile.

That's not actually what the team said, it is a paraphrase of something Chu said about what is desirable in an EV. The author apologizes in the first comment.

Don't blame the researchers for the idiocy of the article's author.

150 charge/discharge cycles is not very much. That is only 5 months use.

Initial testing of batteries is usually done at C/20, or less than one cycle per day. I don't know if they sped this up any, but it would still take quite a while for 150 cycles. You're asking too much from a research project.

We just need better robots!

I used to show up at work before 6 and leave after 19. I only did this three days a week, though. It was totally at my discretion how I put in my 40 hours, but it was too long a drive to do it more often, and driving during rush hours was also not appealing.

But since I am long retired, I chose the last option.

By the year 2200, sea level is expected to rise somewhere between 4 and 30 inches.

A more reasonable guess might be around a meter by 2100, plus or minus a half meter. What will happen in 2200 will depend too much on our actions before then to say much.

...this for ex (300 miles of power) which was just announced...

There is a lot of marketing speak at your link, and very little technical information. Some of it is just wrong, like the implication that rare earths are heavily used in batteries. My bet is it is a scam.

Way to go, Al. The stupidity of your colleagues was supposed to be a secret!

I watched the show. I may have missed the final episode (I don't remember) but it definitely lasted more than one season. It was a lighthearted children's show, and your ending would be completely out of character for it. I believe Wikipedia.

Something is wrong here. Small Wonder lasted four years, and the last episode description doesn't match what you say.

Not much electricity comes from burning coal out Stanford's way.

Pure water, without any dissolved gasses, has a substantial tensile strength. It is not theoretically stable, but in practice it is. Enough so that a siphon will work in a vacuum.

Such pure water is hard to find, though.

They're broke.

Indeed, but you should also mention it should have been "you're broke". It's obvious, of course, but it happens so often that some might have missed it.

The current Tesla cells are too expensive for grid storage. Nickle and cobalt are not cheap. Nothing says they can't make two types of batteries though, nickle cobalt for cars and manganese dioxide or iron phosphate for the grid. Or they could have a nice lithium sulfur chemistry they could use for both; there has been a lot of recent development in that area.