Of those who would have been able to make a direct impact, I can only remember Osimhen and the money was very likely not there for one Europe's best. Especially considering he was the only one on the market, so at a premium...
Maybe I'm wrong though... You would have had a better overview, that list was really well maintained!
Looking at the squad we have I think top 3 is the short term goal. If you want to win the league, you need to spend like city has for the last 5 years.
We've also been lucky that all the other big clubs have made very poor strategic moves (Chelsea, Spuds, United...)
The club has its goals and I think it's sit and accumulate a return on the last 4 years of KSE's investment.
Which attacking player/s would you recruit? I don't see the options there tbh.
Ah wow, I had current lfp at around 220-250 but that looks like it's on the R&D lines and not in series production yet
I guess with the sheer amount of research being lumped into Lithium batteries at the moment, I would be surprised if it is overtaken by anything short term at least in the auto space. Let's see...
Just to clarify, the article states these are for low voltage systems inside cars, and not powering cars themselves.
Which makes more sense as the density of Na-ion is ~30% less that Li-ion.
The man has principles
The auto industry does not have a choice. They need batteries and will not get them from European suppliers, as they cannot deliver the same cost and quality AND they need the growing wealthy population there to keep their bottom line up.
Maybe 5-10 years down the line there will be enough forcing of Chinese battery suppliers to open factories in Europe to reverse this, but it is not going to happen soon. Maybe the tarrifs will speed this up, maybe not.
Do the economics of nuclear make sense though? A quick search showed around $5k/kW capacity. That's $5 billion per GW. Then there's permit and build times on top of that.
Surely renewables + distributed storage is going to become key?
Is there already extensive precedence of undersea, long distance power distribution? I could imagine the losses would be outrageous at that distance.
Bluetooth and the 2.4 GHz ISM band is not electricity and is highly resilient to moderate noise over short distances. Problems are usually caused by hardware related issues.
I would argue all connected cars have become that. If you're buying anything newer than 2015, in all likelihood it's a spyware filled go-kart.
Would it not be economic suicide to do so?