Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.

Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

Cost, safety, energy density, rates of charge and discharge and cycle life are critical for battery-driven cars to be more widely adopted.

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.

A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

I'm extremely happy the lithium-ion batteries helped communications around the world.

We have to control our battery development and testing.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

Men are impatient of the slow working of natural laws. The triumphs of physical science have enlarged their desires for comfort.

The republic has no need of scientists

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

The electric vehicle is much quieter, simpler in construction, and more easily managed [than a gas automobile] however it can only run a limited distance without recharging.

All that I did was to avail myself of the great privileges of the fiction writer, spring over every scientific difficulty with fancy’s seven-leagued boots, and create on paper what other men were planning out in steel and other metals.

So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.

I don't know how we can compare the old watches we know with the functionality and the capability of the Apple Watch.

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.

If you want a product that's thicker with a bigger battery, it's also heavier, more costly, takes longer to charge.