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Other than AI, what technology are you excited about? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago by MidnightBanjo@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it’s quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods

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[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Realistic Batteries. It's holding back a LOT of things. A lot of technologies are solved, but just require power.

Semi-Realistic Room Temperature Super-Conductor.

If that can be solved, the power density and efficiencies would just be astronomical.... It would absolutely destroy multi-billion industries overnight.

Way-Out-There-Stuff If they ever prove out an actual functional EmDrive-like thruster, that would absolutely open up space travel to our species.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Batteries are the big one. Can you imagine how many people (homeowners/renters) will go out and buy a tiny 100W panel knowing that even though it will fill a battery with energy very slowly, they can still bank on it for a week?

Right now we have batteries that can survive about a day, using a modern solar panel system with inverter (~1000€). Imagine when we have batteries that can store weeks of power.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

solar

solar!

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

Not only on the large scale of things,

But even robots would be in wide spread use if it had a useable runtime.

Something like this, you're good for 20min before it needs to charge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ECwExc-_M

But if you could pull that off where it runs for 8 to 12 hours before needing to charge? They would be used everywhere.