Yeah, science reporting continues to be terrible, but I do think that there could be a lot of neat applications for these kinds of batteries especially as chips get smaller. There's Koomey's law that's an observation that the number of computations per joule of energy dissipated doubled about every 1.57 years. Basically, to make chips faster we have to make them smaller, and that in turn means they use less energy. Batteries that trickle a bit of energy could power chips that can do a lot of computation going forward.
Yeah, science reporting continues to be terrible, but I do think that there could be a lot of neat applications for these kinds of batteries especially as chips get smaller. There's Koomey's law that's an observation that the number of computations per joule of energy dissipated doubled about every 1.57 years. Basically, to make chips faster we have to make them smaller, and that in turn means they use less energy. Batteries that trickle a bit of energy could power chips that can do a lot of computation going forward.
That's a fair point. I'm not sure where the power usage will bottom out, but low-powered devices might get useful fairly soon.