Edison hides the forever battery
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The video is not about the light bulb, it is about the battery. The Wiki I linked to says that the durability can be 50 years, which means that yes, there likely exist batteries still working after 100 years +. I am just saying that if you read about the battery and compare it to the other common electro-chemistries, you can see what the limitations are and why it is not as commonly used as the life alone would lead you to think. There is more to battery design and selection than the maximum amount of deep cycles.
In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain predetermined period of time upon which it decrementally functions or suddenly ceases to function, or might be perceived as unfashionable.[1] Once regarded as a conspiracy theory, the rationale behind this strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases (referred to as "shortening the replacement cycle").[2] It is the deliberate shortening of the lifespan of a product to force people to purchase functional replacements.[3]