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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 61 points 6 months ago (12 children)

God, imagine the trouble we could've saved if battery technology was less primitive at the time.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 70 points 6 months ago (11 children)

imagine where battery tech would be if we never started burning bones for power.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not much different than it is now. Batteries are used by a large number of industries in a wide variety of products and mind bogglingly vast sums of money have been spent on improving them for the last century.

[–] makingrain@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Imagine, though.

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