I have. The truth is that lithium-ion does fundamentally beat silver-zinc. Not only because the individual atoms in the active materials are lighter, but because the ionization potential is a whopping 3.7V, more than twice that of silver-zinc. Also, silver-zinc was developed earlier than lithium-ion by about forty years. Before lithium-ion, silver-zinc got a lot of attention; it couldn't penetrate the consumer market (except at the coin cell level) due to the expense of the silver, but was fairly standard-issue in torpedoes, spacecraft, and submarines. The real reason why lithium-ion is recent is because lithium is the most reactive metal known to man, and like sodium just below it in the periodic table, has a tendency to blow up on its own when exposed to water, the most common electrolyte. It took a while to figure out how to keep lithium batteries from bursting into flames when looked at sideways, and the recent problems with Galaxy Note 7 imply that maybe we haven't quite got it perfected even today!bobingabout wrote:Yes.featherwinglove wrote:I haven't Bobbed 0.15 yet, does it still have that strange progression of primitive lead acid batteries followed by uber-advanced lithium ion batteries followed by considerably-less-advanced silver-zinc batteries? (Note: irl terms of advanced; silver-zinc is more advanced in Bob's.)
And in theory, the only reason why Li-Ion batteries are more advanced in the real world is because that's where the attention has gone. if you look up information about silver-zinc/zinc-oxide batteries, they have at least the same potential is Li-Ion batteries if developed.
That's good. I don't mean to pretend it's realistic. I'm actually wishing though, for something that, while more realistic, may also be a bit less of a pain: Thermionic circuits between current basic circuit boards and basic electronic boards. The vacuum tube component may or may not be added to BEBs (I recommend not adding them, actually. That's laughably unrealistic, but BEBs are and will still be complicated enough in this scenario. Realism is a secondary goal.) The recipe would look something like this:Pretty much the only reason why I didn't make this change in the first place is because I didn't want to break anyone's factory.
Basic circuit board + vacuum tube = thermionic circuit. Vacuum tube = glass + iron, takes a while. Vacuum tube = glass + iron + compressed air is twice as fast. No solder because wire wrap. Recommended for use in radar (replacing BCBs), turrets (replacing each two copper plate), and electric mining drills. If you like the idea and decide not to require research for it, labs. I'd also use it in some first tier machines that use BEBs, lamps and greenhouses, where we can pretend the vacuum tubes are the lightbulbs.
In my 0.14 installation, robot brains don't need solder in components that look like they'd normally want solder. Not sure if this is a bug or has been fixed.