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and looking at the people that are doing this that you can share with us? it doesn t progress as fast as computer chips, unfortunately. it s going to be kind of a slog. but progress is happening all the time. i mean, current generation lithium ion batteries will keep getting better. and there are a bunch of things being researched at the lab scale right now that could potentially, you know, almost get us to what we can do with gasoline. almost. but it s going to be a long haul. define long. long. i mean, people talk in a couple decades timeline, you know, for something like a lithium air battery, which is sort of the holy grail battery. what is that? it just operates on lithium and oxygen. it s probably the best chance we have to approach the energy density of gasoline. but it s really, really hard to do. and nobody has quite nobody actually has even come close to figuring out how to make it really work in a car. we talk a lot on this show and the political conversation
johnson helped design the galileo mission to jupiter and the mars observer projects. but johnson s biggest claim to fame was engineering this toy. the super soaker squirt gun. more than $1 billion in sales later, johnson had the resources to work on his real life s mission. finding ways to power the world without polluting it. that was my strategy, because i was having a lot of trouble getting investors or people to support the research that i wanted to do in the hard times here. the engineer started two companies. located them in what was once a blighted atlanta neighborhood, and hired fellow scientists to work on his mission. we have done some things at the research level that a lot of people have predicted were impossible and could not work. johnson and his team spent seven years developing this lithium air battery. a battery, he says, provides ten times more energy than the most powerful batteries now on the market. where the auto industry now is trying to get to 100 mile