Still Searching for Breakthrough Battery Technology

I always find these battery capacity issues to be lamely entertaining.

Years ago all there was was lead acid for high power applications and things ran fine on them but the cry was, "If only we had a battery that could hold 10 times ad much charge as a lead acid battery life would be great." and then the lithium based type came to be packing 10 - 15 times as much charge in the same physical space.

Now a guy would have thought that would have solved the problems and the want for a 10x capacity battery but no. Instead they decided to put lithium batteries that were 1/10 or less the physical size in to replace the lead acid units and started crying allover again about needing something with more charge capacity for the same volume.

Kinda makes yo wonder about how many engineers of time past that had nothing but LA to work with would feel if they knew what the Li guys of today have to work with?

I'd venture to say that reaching out from the great beyond and slapping them would be my guess.

I would venture to guess (not much of a guess) that making 10 times the power, with 1/10_th the weight, and 1/10_th the volume, was/is pretty standard for sending men to the moon (or wherever).

In a highly critical specialized application like that where there is no limit for costs it's possibly a somewhat justified application however if my Googling is correct they primarily used silver zinc batteries for the lunar missions which had a specific energy rating about about 1/3 - 1/2 of what a common lithium based battery has now.

For the average cellphone it's not a critical necessity being there are many cell phones out there that have outstanding run and standby times compared to the crap they push on the mass public.

The last company phone I had was an Android Comando model that had absolutely shitty runtime in its default setup. On a good day they couldn't make it through a 12 hour shift on one charge. After an extensive go through to shut down and or outrightly delete every non essential to work background app and setting most of us could get 15 - 18 hours run time on them but not always. In hotspot mode for getting online with our laptops out in the field they were good for maybe 2 - 3 hours.

My military spec Sonim however, right out of the box could go 8 - 12+ days in similar normal use and over 2 months in standby between charges.