Needs to be independently compared against proven microsphere coatings because "miracle" cooling coatings typically do not perform nearly as well as claimed in the real world.
I used ZFS until it self-corrupted and refused to mount rw ever again. Community support was totally unhelpful and there was no resolution except buy another array and use something else. There's way too much ZFS cult fanboy glazing out there it doesn't deserve.
PE buys up hospitals to gut them, make them less capable, and cheaper to run.
Then, they buy up air ambulance services to unnecessarily fly patients to other hospitals they own because it's more profitable at the expense of care delays and worse outcomes. Meanwhile, patients and their families are stuck with exorbitant air ambulance bills $20k-60k.
This isn't really a viable technology because it requires careful invasive chemical injection into risky cell chemistries. Generally, liquid electrolyte and plastic separator NMC, LFP, and LiPo should be banned for all but hobby uses when far safer solid state cells with ceramic separators exist such as those offered by ProLogium. NMC are extremely dangerous under deflagration, and LFP create huge amounts of colorless and odorless hydrogen gas that has already blown up many improperly engineered buildings that used them and assumed they were "safe". Real solid state electrolyte chemistries tend to have much slower passivation growth than liquid chemistries.
LiPo packs are rarely used in consumer electronics, they're mostly used in toys and drones as individual pouch packs. NMC is the most common battery chemistry used in consumer electronics. You might be confused because NMC is available in packaging including prismatic, pouch, and cylindrical configurations.
No, that's improper flammable gas management. Constant igniters need to be close enough to all cells to be effective in preventing the creation of a confined space bomb.
Apples and oranges strawman. In very small quantities that can be managed by simply dumping it overboard using small diameter tubing.
Watch the StacheD YT channel about the structures blown up by deflagrating LFP packs because they lacked constant igniters like Megapacks. Also, the Moss Landing LFP fire reignited after 20 months. LFP aren't anywhere close to "safe", they're just relatively safer compared to NMC.
I watched the clip and the youtuber himself says the facility was poorly designed and should not have been built at all.
I've read ProLogium's press release when it came out and while their progress is impressive, I don't see their batteries making it to grid storage anytime soon. For one, they don't have the production capacity yet.
My bet is that for the time being it's cheaper to just build facilities with good fire prevention measures than have a technology which is just scaling up take over right now.
For now, flash charging is in China, Europe, UK, and Malaysia (soon). The chargers actually have battery packs in them because the charging current is almost always too much to be supplied by the grid directly.
Also, every car manufacturer has to go through crash testing and homologation in order to sell cars directly to US consumers. And, without a parts supply chain, maintaining a car becomes very difficult. So even paying 200-300% over the sale price with third-party homologation makes private importation expensive, painful, and slow.
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