Whoever started using the last name “good enough” must have been an interesting person.
“Hey, you, don’t you want to get a proper name, like Miller or Smith?”
“Nah, this one is good enough.”
I was just about to post this article (Thankfully lemmy warns you that it might be a duplicate!).
This guy isn’t a household name by any stretch but this invention quite literally changed the world. Few people have as far reaching of an impact as he had. Almost 101 years old too. I think he did Good…enough.
(I’ll see myself out)
It’s well worth reading Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green By Henry Sanderson, it’s a good insight into some of his work with LiPo from a business and supply chain angle along with some of the geopolitical aspects looking forward.
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Sad to lose such an amazing mind… but my own mind can’t help but think of this:
Never let Peter Perfect be the enemy of John Goodenough.
I seem to recall hearing a few years ago that the inventor of Li Ion batteries was working on a successor battery technology. Was that him? And did he finish?
