It’s a lot easier to remove 200 calories from your diet than burning 200 calories more.

Tell that to someone starting out and look at their deer in the headlight face. Then you’ll realize that the point went over your head.

There are game changing items combinations. But it depends also on your traits.

For example, one run, I had a cleric that shared his regeneration with other cats, and an item that gave me +3 regen if I had at least 1 armor point.

So I equipped an armor item and every turn, my cats would heal 4 hp, making them extremely tanky and making the run trivial.

But it’s hard to get a combo going.

Well it’s a pretty big deal, especially for large power storage.

My very uneducated understanding is that sodium batteries can be produced virtually anywhere.

Not every battery application needs to maximize energy density, so sodium batteries are good where that is the case.

I also did not read about sodium ion batteries characteristics versus lithium ion, so there might also be other use cases where sodium ion batteries are better.

It takes time to scale production and even more time to adopt a new technology.

At least, they didn’t SLAM Microsoft.

If we burn the planet for more economic productivity, we made more money but made human life worst.

So what is the point of economic productivity if it makes our everyday live worst?

Stifle wasn’t the right word. Sorry about that, I wrote my comment too fast amd English isn’t my first language.

Innovation isn’t an all or nothing thing.

There is a difference between removing all the red tape and saying “fuck it” and making sure that the said innovation isn’t outright dangerous. If we need to take thing slower to make sure that people aren’t killed directly or indirectly, then so be it.

History has shown us again and again that corporations can’t behave decently if let to their own device.

I would much rather have the government stiffle innovation if that means that consumer are safe and benefit from said innovation.