When will humanity finally grow up and evolve beyond the primitive kinetic energy based ranged ballistic weaponry meme?

In short, no. I've had my eyes on the battery meme technology circus for years and while there's a new BREAKTHROUGH BATTERY TECHNOLOGY announced roughly every half a year, they all fall short in some regard or are outright fabricated to hover up as much VC money as possible. Sure, at some point, something is bound to pop up replacing the current status quo, but don't hold your breath. At least when it comes to capacity/weight ratio, we're a long way off from being able to feasibly power mobile energy weapons.

what is actually stopping battery technology from moving forward?

because its silly to think batteries are completely stagnant, as the implication would be that gasoline cars and chemical weapons will be used 1000 years from now
are scientists just sitting on their asses?

You fags are going about this the wrong way.
Stop worrying about what kind of gun you hold in your hands.
Instead, think of how you can evolve to use ki blasts and such and not need to hold any gay guns.

Lithium-ion battery are actually insanely good if you compare them to anything else that looks promising *and* within reach. Especially when it comes to power density. And that's for the most part all that matters for most applications. There are types that excel in charging times or lifetime, but in the end that's not what makes up the largest share of the market. It's also a insanely complicated field, contrary to what it might look like. If it was easy we'd already have every type of super battery imaginable because there's hilarious amounts of money to be made.

The best goddamn weapon will always be kinetic projectiles.

If we make it out of the solar system, the most devastating weapon is not gonna be a massive energy weapon. It'll be simply directing large asteroids into colliding with your enemy planet. Small projectile weapons are also deadly as fuck because in space the projectiles will remain in whichever orbit they get into and be a cloud of tiny undetectable debris moving at high velocity shredding everything they run into, causing more debris to be made, further compounding the problem.

My planet exploding laser would like a word with you.

but in the end EVERYTHING is knetic energy user

>explode a planet
>massive expanding cloud of debris kills your laser

Entropy. Because both gasoline and batteries work by changing one chemical into another chemical of a lower energy state. Hydrocarbons +O2 -> CO2+H2O produces lots of energy. Meanwhile, batteries are required to be rechargeable and other physical specifications, which puts a serious constraint on what reactions we can do. As the batteries' end products need to be similar to each other, the result is a low power/energy output. Someone trying to convert solids into gaseous output via battery technology will suddenly discover he's been working on a fuel cell all along.

>primitive kinetic energy based ranged ballistic weaponry meme
Shut up

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not if you shoot it from 1 AU away

we developed nuclear ICBMs 70 years ago

>hurrr we’re still the same primates maaan
This shitpost again? We have a few traits carried over, but to say we’re EXACTLY the same as cavemen is retarded.

You need to go heavier. High atomic weights hold more electrons.
But its also more expensive.
The bigger problem is not physics, its cost.
Waiting for the consumer to move technology forward is slower in some areas then others.
This means that the product must out perform the existing product in costs.
This is why military technology only advances when a powerful government enters war, costs are revalued.

the US government has reverse engineered alien laser tech but they don't disclose it

dumb frogposter

When people stop dying to them or they stop working, like in space. Pointy stick MVP melee 10,000BC-1900AD