On: 94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery

[_r5wf]

Some entrepreneur or company in silicon valley would have invented stg better and cheaper.

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Silicon Valley itself wouldn't have existed in the form it does without the huge government investments in the area, so even if that happened - and you can speculate all you want but facts remain they didn't -, it'd still be a win for government R&D funding.