This Radical Breakthrough Battery Technology May Change Everything
Donut Lab’s CEO Marco Letimaki unveiled a solid-state battery at CES 2026 boasting 400 Wh/kg (double lithium-iron phosphate) and a 274-year lifespan, charging to 95% in five minutes—claims dismissed by Toyota and Samsung as impossible. VTT Technical Research Center validation, due soon at idonutbelieve.com, could upend energy markets: solar/wind grid storage, off-grid autonomy, and AI-driven vehicles acting as power hubs. If real, this tech may force combustion engines obsolete, reshaping self-reliance while demanding smarter energy trade-offs. [Automatically generated summary]
So the world is about to change if this one technology proves to be legit.
And the creator of this technology has just thrown down the gauntlet and claimed that he's going to bring receipts next week.
And those receipts are going to prove that his company's new revolutionary technology is real.
What company am I talking about?
What technology?
I'm talking about Donut Lab.
And this is a well, a Finnish slash Estonian company, I believe, that announced right at the tail end of the CES show last month that they had a new revolutionary solid-state battery with specifications that were almost completely unbelievable by anybody in the battery industry.
Not only was it a solid state, but the energy density that was achieved, according to the claims, was extraordinary, 400 watt-hours per kilogram, which is more than twice what's typical today in lithium-iron phosphate batteries.
On top of this, the really extraordinary thing is that the creator of this battery, again, Donut Lab, it's spelled just like it sounds, D-O-N-U-T, Donut Lab, a man named Marco.
His last name is difficult for me to pronounce.
But his company is also, they're the innovators behind the remarkable electric motor on Verge motorcycles, which also a lot of skeptics said wasn't possible, but turned out to be completely true and completely revolutionary.
But Marco says that his battery is designed to withstand 100,000 charge cycles.
Well, charge-discharge cycles.
So 100,000 cycles, that means it would last more than a human lifetime in terms of daily use.
100,000 cycles.
I mean, if you do the math on that, if you charge your electric car once per day, then these batteries would last 274 years.
On top of that, he claims that his company's batteries can be manufactured at scale and that they charge so rapidly that you can charge them to about 95% of their capacity in about five minutes.
So that's a charge rate of something like 12 C, which is 12 times the capacity in one hour, essentially.
And what that means is that this battery technology, at least as it is claimed, it's a quantum leap above every other battery that's ever been created in all of history.
And it blows away all the labs and Samsung and Toyota and literally everybody else.
Now, then on top of that, I forgot to mention, he claimed that it does not use lithium at all.
Says it's made from commonly available materials that are not from difficult places.
He didn't say exactly which elements that would entail.
Does it use cobalt?
Does it use nickel?
Does it use copper?
What is it?
Is it sodium?
Is it aluminum?
I mean, what's it made of?
Wright Brothers Moment?00:12:51
It has to obey the laws of physics, we all agree.
So how does this work?
Well, this was announced, again, right after the CES show in January, and I covered it for a couple of days.
And I'm one of the few people who said, maybe this is real.
Even though virtually everybody, all the experts said it's a complete hoax.
They said that Marco and Donut Lab are making it up, that it can't be real.
And I even related, I had a visiting scientist at my MassSpec lab who actually worked on Samsung's batteries, and I asked him about this, and he told me, I related this to you, he told me that it's not possible for these specs to be achieved without using lithium.
So he's another expert who told me that the Donut Lab batteries are simply not possible.
So that was the consensus among a lot of people.
But then again, I was one of the few who held out the possibility that, look, you know, revolutions of understanding have happened in the past.
And specifically, the Wright brothers, every expert said it's not possible to have a heavier-than-air craft that could fly.
Everybody said that.
All the scientists, all the physicists, all the brightest minds in the world said you can't fly, obviously, because any craft would be heavier than air and it would therefore fall to the ground.
And that was considered common sense.
It was considered obvious.
And anybody who said, no, we can build a machine and make it fly, those people were considered lunatics.
But then that became history with the Wright brothers.
And the reason I'm using the Wright brothers here is intentional.
Because if this new battery from Donut Lab, if it turns out to be true and we're supposed to get test results from independent third-party testing literally next week, I think Monday, if this turns out to be true, then this is a Wright brothers moment for history.
It's that big of a deal.
And then this man, Marco, whose last name I can't even pronounce, will go down in history alongside the Wright brothers.
Now that's a big claim, obviously.
But he explains that he's allowed his battery to be tested by the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, which is a government-owned and operated independent testing center that has no commercial interest, that they are conducting independent measurements of the battery's performance and the key characteristics such as energy density, discharge rates, and charge rates,
probably thermal tracking to find out how hot the battery gets when you charge it that rapidly, etc.
And that these test results are about to be released within just days.
And there's a website where Marco and his company, they've launched this website where they're going to release these results.
And the website is called IdonutBelieve.com.
Kind of a play on words like I do not believe, except it's IdonutBelieve.com.
So you can go there.
I encourage you to do that.
Because the Donut Lab company has been accused by almost everyone of being involved in a massive con, a hoax.
Something reminiscent of perhaps some of the more radical free energy hoaxers.
The Donut Lab company has been accused of doing this in order to raise money, just to attract investment money.
And everyone has assumed it's a scam.
And I thought, possibly, but I held out the possibility that this was real.
Now, I'm even more convinced that we should take this seriously.
And so what I want to do in this podcast is I want to explain the ramifications.
If this battery tech turns out to be real, this will have enormous implications for economics.
I mean, positive implications.
But it will utterly destroy the combustion engine, or almost entirely destroy it, for vehicles.
So if this battery is real, then everything goes EV.
Only electric vehicles at this point.
In fact, if this battery is real, then you're going to start to have electric farm equipment, construction equipment, long-distance trucking, all with electric motors.
And so diesel engines and diesel consumption will just plummet.
That's if this is real.
But I want you to see a couple of minutes of this man in his own words.
Again, his name is Marco Letimaki.
Letimaki, I'm not sure how you pronounce that.
But I want you to hear him explain this in his own words because he's put out a short video on this, so let's give that a listen.
Hi, Marco here, CEO and co-founder of Donut Lab.
Today we are announcing a new video series that will share third-party validation of our incredible new battery.
In January this year, we announced Donut Battery, an all-solid state battery pack available to OEMs today.
Not only is it the world's first solid-state battery in production vehicles, but it also combines all the best potential features of a solid-state battery pack into one at the price that competes with lithium-ion.
Now, this is something that obviously disrupts the entire industry, and the reaction has been intense, and honestly, not unexpected.
The internet lit up, media coverage turned into speculation, YouTube filled with opinions, and the comment sections full of certainty that this technology cannot be real.
So we made a deliberate decision.
We wanted the industry, especially the loudest voices, to go on record first.
We wanted them to publish their certainty and to broadcast to everyone what they really think, which is this technology simply cannot exist today.
Because first of all, then everyone, even outside the industry, truly understands how mind-blowingly big breakthrough it is what we are bringing to the market and what it can mean to the entire industry and even to our planet.
But also, when we do show the evidence, you can already recognize the pattern that I described.
You can see how quickly certainty becomes narrative.
And hopefully, everybody's less likely to be pulled along when the story tries to move again.
Mainly driven by people with direct or indirect interest in the issue.
Now that's what this series is all about.
We published the claims, now we are publishing the evidence.
We are doing it with a respected state-owned research and science center, a third party whose job is to measure, verify, and report.
No opinions or marketing, just facts.
And I want you to remember this moment and the headlines.
Remember the certainty and the quotes from the experts.
Because I can guarantee that when we demonstrate that the battery is actually real, many of those who said this cannot exist will not simply admit they were wrong.
Okay, those were some of the clips of Marco there.
And if you want to see the rest of the video, you can see that at his website, idonutbelieve.com.
Now, I stated previously, weeks ago, that I saw no reason why someone would destroy their reputation by pushing out some big hoax.
There was no incentive to do so, especially since Marco is involved in another company, a motorcycle company. named Verge, that definitely has successfully created revolutionary technology for electric motorcycles, a revolutionary motor that many people thought was completely impossible.
So if he were to be busted in this, if this battery is a hoax, if he were to be caught in this hoax, it would ruin his reputation for the other company, the motorcycle company.
That would be economic suicide.
And this man doesn't, he doesn't seem like a low IQ, you know, fast-talking huckster.
He seems like a very deliberate person who potentially has, through his colleagues and their investments in nanotechnology companies, that's part of this story, they have created something that is so revolutionary that takes such a leap forward in energy storage technology that it is simply unimaginable by the status quo of battery storage science today.
And I'm willing to give Marco the benefit of the doubt to wait and let's see the data.
Let's see it.
Why not?
What do we have to lose?
Let's have an open mind and see if this VTT technical research center of Finland, if it puts out numbers that are consistent with his claims.
If so, then the world changes.
Everything changes.
And again, that's what I want to talk about in this special report.
So by the way, thank you for joining me.
I'm Mike Adams.
I'm an AI developer.
I'm a technology platform innovator myself.
I'm an inventor.
I own a MassSpec laboratory.
You know, I'm a polymath.
I own patents.
I've done a lot of interesting things in science and food and laboratory science and table of elements, mass spectrometry.
I've developed methods for the quantitation of glyphosate and CBDs, cannabinoids extracted from hemp, etc.
I've published papers.
I am a published scientist.
And so I'm very familiar with the process of checking out these claims, although I'm not a chemist, just to be clear, and I'm not an expert in battery technology, but I understand the fundamental principles of how batteries work and why his claims seem so outrageous.
I also know that the table of elements is essentially immutable, although through processes of fission and fusion, of course, you can move things around.
You can split atoms, you can transmute through those processes.
There's also radioactive decay, etc.
But by and large, you can't just take the table of elements and wipe it away and then just make up your own new laws of physics, okay?
That's for sure.
So we must assume that whatever Marco here is talking about, it has to be consistent with the laws of physics.
So let's agree on that point.
Has to be consistent.
We must also agree, I hope you'll agree with this, that science progresses through leaps and bounds.
It's not always linear.
There are breakthroughs, obviously.
For example, the breakthrough of the transistor from Bell Labs in 1957, which unleashed the entire era of what we now know as computing and computer science and telecommunications and all that.
And then other breakthroughs, such as the transformer for AI.
That's another breakthrough, a relatively recent one, that has unleashed the era of machine cognition.
And we have machine cognition functioning today in 2026 at levels that scientists just two years ago thought was impossible or thought would take 10 to 20 years.
Why Energy Matters00:02:49
So we have to operate from a fundamental understanding that very often our human brains are incapable of anticipating these leaps in scientific advancement and revolutionary breakthroughs.
Now, none of that means that the Donut Lab battery, it doesn't prove that that battery is what Marco says it is, but we must be open to the idea that sometimes innovation and breakthroughs can surprise us.
In fact, very often that's the case throughout history.
Now, let's step back and understand that our modern economies run on energy.
And until relatively recently, that energy has largely been for over a century.
That energy has been fossil fuels, oil and natural gas for the most part.
Coal, also in power plants, but a lot of it's just oil and gas.
Now, oil and gas are pretty amazing in the sense that they have very high energy density.
There's a lot of work in every gallon of oil.
There's a lot of work in every cubic meter of gas.
And since oil and gas are naturally produced within the planet, you know, by Earth, it's a form of natural abundance to extract those and then to convert them into work through engines or turbine generators in the case of natural gas in order to generate electricity to power the grid.
So by tapping into fossil fuels, we have been able to unleash natural abundance in terms of energy.
Now, the GDP of any given nation closely follows its energy consumption.
So the use of energy is a very strongly correlated marker for productivity growth and also for industry, manufacturing, and these days, data centers, including AI data centers, and advances in machine cognition.
So we can all agree that energy is absolutely essential for modern societies to achieve abundance and to move forward.
Without energy, without abundant energy, we're lost.
Now, why don't we use more sunlight energy since sunlight is free and there is an enormous amount of freely available sunlight striking our planet and hitting deserts that are otherwise largely useless.
Why aren't we using more of that energy?
Why aren't we rolling out solar panels for data centers?
Well, in some cases we are.
China is building large solar farms and they're also being constructed in European countries.
High Costs Hinder Solar Adoption00:03:04
Germany is famous for having lots of solar fields, even though Germany is located at a relatively high latitude where solar efficiency is not that great.
But across the United States, there's a fair bit of solar.
It's not the dominant energy source of the power grid, but it supplies something.
And then there's wind also.
Wind turbines.
They're very well known in north Texas, for example, and parts of California, parts of Colorado, etc.
Places where the wind blows all the time.
Wyoming, you know, comes to mind.
But why don't we have more reliance on wind and solar?
And the answer, of course, is because wind doesn't blow all the time and the sun doesn't shine all the time, and thus you have a problem with the continuity of the power production from wind and solar.
You also have, in addition to nighttime, you have clouds.
You have rain and storms and weather and things that interfere with solar power generation.
So the key technology that allows solar and wind to be translated into grid energy is of course battery technology, energy storage.
And the terminology that's used in the industry is grid shifting.
So if you're going to essentially time shift sunlight energy so that that same sunlight can power your power grid at night when the sun is not shining, then you need to be able to time shift the sunlight.
In other words, to have the sunlight charge batteries and then have the batteries discharge at night.
So that's called grid shifting or time shifting technology.
It seems self-evident.
Obviously, I'm just explaining it in case you're not familiar with that concept.
This grid shifting battery storage technology up until now has been prohibitively expensive because of the extraordinary costs of lithium batteries, especially in years past, even though lithium has become much cheaper now.
And yes, I'm including lithium iron phosphate in that category.
But because costs have been so high, grid shifting solar power is just not competitive with energy production via coal or gas, typically.
In fact, building a solar power grid, a solar field, and then building the batteries that can store that requires extremely high capital investment up front, much higher than the capital investment required to purchase something like a gas turbine that turns natural gas into energy, or much higher than building a coal-fired power plant that just burns coal, or running large diesel generators that convert diesel into energy.
So the capital requirements for so-called green energy have been prohibitive.
Sodium Ion Revolution00:07:43
And that has slowed the adoption of solar energy, wind energy, and in some cases, hydroelectric or tidal energy or other alternative forms of energy, which are sometimes considered renewables.
This battery from Donut Lab, again, if it turns out to be legit, if it's real, this changes the equation dramatically.
Number one, the 100,000 cycles claim, even if it's not entirely true, even if it's only half of that, 50,000 cycles would be an order of magnitude better than anything that exists that we know of in the lithium battery field or even sodium battery chemistry.
I mean, sodium ion batteries are coming online.
They're being manufactured by Chinese companies BYD, Catal, and others.
Those batteries have a very large number of charge discharge cycles in terms of their survivability.
In other words, they last through sometimes, let's say, 5,000 charge discharge cycles.
If the donut lab batteries last 50,000 cycles, that's 10 times better.
And that's a 10 times reduction in the cost of ownership of those batteries because you don't have to replace them every 5,000 cycles.
So even though the upfront cost may be similar, in this case, you can get funding and capital for grid shifting technology based on Donut Lab tech because you don't have to replace it for 50 years or 100 years or more, perhaps, depending on how long these actually last.
And I'm skeptical of any claim that says a battery is going to last 50 years because I haven't seen much of anything last 50 years except concrete and some trees.
A few homes, perhaps, you know, but things break down just from thermal expansion and contraction, sometimes oxidation, sometimes UV exposure, what have you.
Things break down.
You know, I live on a farm and on a farm, you see how quickly things break down.
Very few things will last 50 years.
Hardly even good tools will last 50 years.
So we'll see.
We'll see.
But if this battery can last 50 years, that's remarkable.
The second thing is that, according to the claims, it can be manufactured using readily available materials that don't come from conflict areas.
So right now, as you may know, cobalt, for example, comes from countries, especially in Africa, that are conflict zones.
Cobalt is very tricky to get.
Lithium has its own problems.
It uses a tremendous amount of fresh water for processing during lithium mining, for example.
Nickel has its own challenges.
I mean, every element has challenged.
Now, we don't yet know the elemental composition of these donut lab batteries, but if they are as common as Marco seems to imply, then I'm guessing it's something like graphite, sodium, sulfur, zinc, aluminum.
I'm talking about commonly available, you know, widely available elements.
Well, graphite being a special version of carbon.
But as far as I know, all the graphite is made in China.
So I'm not sure.
I have no idea if graphite is part of this, but it could be.
In any case, we're about to find out.
Now, if this tech really is what Marco says it is, then that would revolutionize supply chains for batteries.
Because that would mean that once this breakthrough becomes known, obviously the Donut Lab company would license manufacturing to manufacturers all over the world so that this battery could be built everywhere using local materials.
Even in the U.S. where we don't mine rare earths and we don't really have a lot of lithium mining, come to think of it.
We do have copper mines.
We can mine zinc and aluminum and things like that.
But if this battery is made from commonly available materials, that can allow domestic production that can be scaled very quickly.
we can start churning out a huge number of these batteries that can be stacked to power things, everything from motorcycles to vehicles to SUVs to 18-wheeler transport rigs to airplanes and aircraft, drones, robots, and then also, like I said, construction equipment, small hobby tractors, ATVs and UTVs, golf carts, you know,
anything that you get around with on a ranch on top of ships, submarines, you know, cargo ships could be battery-powered, believe it or not.
I mean, this could change absolutely everything.
But the most important change in this tech, the one that I'm really excited about, is that it could let people like you and I disconnect from the power grid and live entirely off-grid.
Now, this has been a goal of mine for decades.
I've built solar systems.
I've invested in solar technology.
I've been very disappointed because trying to go off-grid has just not been economically feasible almost entirely because the battery technology did not exist to make it work well.
The old lead-acid batteries were a total joke.
They only lasted a couple of years and it cost a fortune.
Lithium-ion was very expensive at first, although prices have dropped dramatically recently.
But lithium still suffers from numerous problems, which is it doesn't support a large number of charge-discharge cycles.
And on top of that, the lithium batteries are quite flammable, which may not be something that you want to put in your garage or in a barn on a ranch.
So that's why I've been excited about sodium ion technology, because sodium is inherently much safer than lithium.
Sodium doesn't have the energy density of lithium iron phosphate.
Sodium ion batteries may have an energy density of 150 to maybe 200 watt hours per kilogram.
And 200 is the high side for those batteries.
But that doesn't matter to me if I'm putting them on a pallet and sticking them in a garage or a barn somewhere.
I don't care that it's not compact because I'm not using it in a mobile vehicle.
And sodium ion battery technology is coming along dramatically, rapidly out of China.
But now, if Donut Lab comes along and says, wait a second, we can make these at about the same price.
Now you have 400 watt-hours per kilogram.
It's not flammable.
And it lasts 100,000 cycles or even something even close to that.
Again, even half that would be a breakthrough.
Batteries For Off-Grid Living00:14:25
Then that instantly means that you and I can go off-grid.
How?
You buy a bunch of these batteries from Donut Lab or one of their manufacturers over the next couple of years.
You stack a bunch of batteries in your garage.
And then, you know, on the front end, you put a charge controller.
You erect a bunch of solar panels.
You have a backup generator that runs on diesel if you need it.
And then you have an inverter.
And you tie that into your house or tie that into your ranch or tie that into your business, whatever the case may be.
And if you don't have enough power, just buy more solar panels.
Now you're getting all your power for free.
Now you don't have to meter it.
You're not buying it from the power grid.
If the power grid goes down, it doesn't bother you.
You are now living off-grid, which means you have a sense of freedom.
Which means you can charge your own electric vehicle using your own solar panels.
So that means you no longer have to buy gasoline or diesel.
You no longer need a combustion engine vehicle.
You don't have to change the fuel filter.
You don't have to change the engine oil filter because there's not an engine that has oil in it.
You know, you don't have to check the oil.
You don't have to drain the oil.
You don't, like, all kinds of maintenance vanishes on this equipment.
Now, for some tractors or some construction equipment, you still have hydraulic oil.
You still have to change the hydraulic oil filter or drain the hydraulic oil, but that's on a much longer schedule, and that's relatively easy to do, by the way.
I do that on a regular basis.
Yeah, you still have to grease the equipment on all the grease zerks, but you don't have to feed it diesel, which means that if I have a little hobby tractor, let's say, and I'm living on, I don't know, 10 acres, I have a little hobby tractor, I can charge that tractor with solar, and on a full charge, that tractor might work for two hours, let's say.
And then it's out of juice because tractors can go through a lot of power.
And then, you know, you do two hours of work.
Okay, so you shred for two hours or you move dirt for two hours or you till your, you know, your corn plot or something for two hours.
And then you go back and you park your tractor and you let it charge back up again.
What's it charging from?
It's charging from your giant donut lab battery pack that's sitting in your barn.
And that's fed by your solar panels.
And the sunnier it is, the faster all your stuff charges.
The more sunlight you get, the more you can drive your car or your truck or your tractor.
If it's cloudy outside, you're not going to get much power.
You may have to not do tractor work that day.
Or you can run a diesel generator and just burn diesel, turn that into electricity as a backup plant.
See, that's how this is going to go.
And also, since most of us will eventually have humanoid robots that will help us as we live off-grid, remember, I want a weed-pulling robot.
That's my number one robot dream.
Please let me have a weed-pulling robot.
I will pay for it.
That robot's going to need to be charged all the time because I got a lot of weeds to pull.
I don't know about you.
I'm going to put that robot to work all day long.
You know, work eight hours, recharge.
Work another eight hours, recharge.
But really, I'm going to buy swappable battery packs so that when the robot is working, there's a battery pack that's charging.
And what's it charging off of?
It's being charged off the donut lab battery pack that's in my barn.
And that way the robot can work all day long.
It just has to go back and swap battery packs.
And that battery pack itself might be a donut lab robot battery pack, which means that battery pack is probably going to last six or eight hours instead of three or four hours, which is what robots typically are able to handle right now because the battery technology just isn't that great yet.
So are you starting to see some of the ways that this can revolutionize your independence, your ability to live off-grid?
And it can also dramatically lower your cost of living.
Imagine not having to buy gas.
Imagine not having to pay for oil changes.
Imagine the cost of all your vehicles going way down because they don't have to come with diesel engines, which are very expensive, I know, believe me, because that's what I buy.
Imagine having a tractor that is electric.
Imagine having your own local AI computer where you're running inference all day long and it's doing chain of thought reasoning.
It's a GPU that burns through energy, right?
But all your AI cognition is free because you're using an open source Chinese language model like DeepSeek running on your local hardware and it's using sunlight as your energy.
So now you're converting sunlight into intelligence.
But you need batteries to make that work.
And Donut Lab could be that battery.
Possibly that's what we're going to see.
And what I've described so far just scratches the surface.
And there's much more that will become obvious.
This will dramatically lower the cost of transportation, which means this will lower the cost of ride-share services, you know, Uber, things like that.
or Lyft.
This will therefore then have a downward pressure on the price of food.
It can help lower the cost of agriculture, which is very energy intensive.
It can lower the cost of compute.
And importantly, it can help improve reliability of power grids, which are kind of sketchy in the United States right now, especially the eastern power grid, which is already maxed out.
So since the power grid is maxed out, you probably want to get off that power grid and be more independent if you can.
And if you want, you could still keep your connection to the power grid as a backup, you know, like an emergency thing.
Maybe if your system, your home system fails, you know, you throw a transfer switch.
You can buy those.
I mean, you have to have an electrician install them, obviously.
But it's a giant transfer switch and you can switch back over to the grid.
And that might be a stepping stone for a lot of people, probably for myself as well.
But I have one of those giant switches because I have a 50-kilowatt generator that's attached to the back of my tractor.
It's a PTO generator.
I've talked about it before.
I've had to use it a few times over the years where I start up the tractor.
I turn on the PTO.
I start spinning that generator at a certain RPM.
And then I throw the switch and then I'm powering my ranch because the grid's gone down.
Well, in the future, I'll just be able to do that off of Donut Lab batteries or some kind of an energy storage system based on that technology.
Again, if the technology pans out, if it turns out to be real.
So this is going to have a deflationary effect on the economy.
It will lower the price of transportation.
It will lower the cost of vehicle ownership.
It will lower the cost of food production and many other things.
It will lower the cost of aviation because these batteries will be used in small electric planes, especially for sort of small commuter flights, you know, local flights.
And then at airports, you'll have recharging stations.
And these airplanes can fly, fly for an hour, land, you made it to your destination, they roll up to the recharging station, they charge back up in five or ten minutes, and they're ready for the next flight.
It's actually faster than filling up the plane with jet fuel or the other fuels that the planes use.
So this can revolutionize so many areas of the economy.
Battery technology is one of those gateway technologies that can unleash abundance in many other areas, from drones and robotics and transportation and vehicles and farming and food production to AI and data centers, machine cognition, just on and on and on.
And also, at the same time, can help support off-grid living, which is self-reliance living that is more decentralized, more liberty, more freedom, your ability to live the life that you want without being tied into a system that's metering you all the time, or with the smart grid systems or the smart meters, they can turn off your air conditioning, or they can turn off your heat if the grid is currently stressed.
So, you know, you're giving up privacy, you're given up control when you're tied into a power grid through smart meters.
But if you are your own power grid, then all that's up to you.
You want to burn more kilowatt hours to have more heat?
That's your choice.
You know, you want to run a generator to generate more kilowatt hours?
That's your choice.
You get to manage your own power.
And you can either be wise about it or, you know, you can use it all in one day and then freeze the next day because you're out of juice.
Like, that's totally up to you.
This is actually good because it'll bring back, it'll force people to make economical decisions about their own power usage since they have their own limited supply.
I think it's actually a good thing.
People should be more tuned into their power consumption and power production.
It actually makes you smarter about the way that you consume electricity.
And it makes you more energy efficient, makes you more mindful.
It's like, wait a second, do I really want to set the air conditioner down to 70 degrees?
Probably not, because that's going to burn through all your battery power.
And if you do run your AC that low, then you might not have enough juice to charge your car, so you don't get to drive anywhere.
You see what I mean?
So you have to make trade-offs, and that's normal.
That's rational.
That's actually a better system than what we have now, where most consumers think that electricity is unlimited, even though it isn't.
It has to be generated and delivered in microseconds, but it's not unlimited, as sometimes we have found out during rolling blackouts.
So bottom line here is that there will be financial implications from this.
If the donut lab battery technology is real, then the future of combustion engines and the future of oil looks bleak, actually.
Even though oil right now might be poised to spike because of Trump potentially attacking Iran, involving the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, etc., oil could go crazy because of that.
So I don't advise you to bet against oil prices right now.
That would be foolish.
But in the long run, if this Donut Lab technology is real, it makes a lot of use cases of oil obsolete.
A lot of use cases.
And even people like myself, who have in the past really mocked electric vehicles because they were so horrible.
They had such long charge times.
I would make fun of people.
What are you doing?
You're driving across the country and then you have to wait for three or four hours for your vehicle to charge.
And some of these charge stations are actually running on diesel generators anyway.
It seems completely insane.
Well, that can change dramatically.
And there's one more innovation I forgot to mention that's also going to change this.
Many automakers are now beginning to design vehicles that have solar panels built in to the roof, which means that as you park your car, it's recharging.
So if you park it enough, then it's going to fully recharge.
Obviously, this depends on where you are on the planet, whether it's the summer or the winter season, what latitude you're at, the angle of your parking, etc.
But from what I've heard, typically if you park an electric vehicle that has solar panels on it, for about every day that you don't drive it, it gives you additional range of about 10 kilometers.
It's not a lot, but it's something.
It keeps your car charged.
So you can turn your car into an energy harvesting device.
Now, on top of that, and I know maybe this is getting a little bit tangential, but vehicles are also being built with very powerful microprocessors now.
And Tesla is rolling out some new microchips that are very good AI microchips.
And what's going to happen in the near future is that your parked electric vehicle will also be an AI inference engine.
So you'll be able to talk to your car, basically turn its chip into an LLM and take advantage of its compute capability when you're not driving.
In other words, when you're not driving, you could have your car, you know, write articles for you or compose music or generate videos.
And all that takes energy.
You see where I'm going with this.
We're talking about a whole new ecosystem of energy and cognition and the way cars function in your life.
Energy storage systems change the equations on so many levels.
So if you want to stay up to speed on this, I'm covering this in great detail, obviously.
I'm so fascinated by this technology.
And I think it's going to unleash a whole new future for us.
A future that looks like Star Trek.
A future that seems impossible today, but suddenly it could become totally real overnight.
Quantum leaps of innovation are here.
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