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New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Its that way with many technologies. The lead time on such research is long enough that market factors alter the viability by the time it is ready to get commercialized.

Quite often innovations from prototype technology can be transplanted into existing tech for part of the benefit, without having to build new production capacity. So the new technology does not commercialised, but the learnings from it does.