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God, imagine the trouble we could've saved if battery technology was less primitive at the time.
imagine where battery tech would be if we never started burning bones for power.
Not much different than it is now. Batteries are used by a large number of industries in a wide variety of products and mind bogglingly vast sums of money have been spent on improving them for the last century.
Imagine, though.