A new technology promises a revolution with four times the energy density and at a fraction of the cost of lithium-ion batteries. As the world turns its back on fossil fuels that are destroying the planet, our lives increasingly revolve around batteries.
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Dec
Dec
An environmentally degradable battery could make electronic devices, land and air vehicles safer and alleviate the difficulties associated with e-waste disposal.
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Oct
Oct
China’s CATL announced that they have made a sodium-ion battery. Production of the new automotive batteries, which are much more cold tolerant than lithium batteries, will start in 2023.
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Sep
Sep
Higher energy density, lower environmental impact, longer lifetime, orders of magnitude shorter charging time, less flammable, cheaper production, to name just a few of the futuristic goals of dozens of battery technology research labs. But the basic research is still going on.
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Sep
Sep
It started normally, someone, a scientist this time, bought some spinach at the grocery store, took it home, washed it and salted it a bit. The sequel is what turned out to be unusual in that the end result was not a weekend lunch but a battery.
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Sep
Sep
Nuclear waste from nuclear power plants is a huge problem for humanity. In current practice, although it is produced in industrial quantities, it is also stored at huge cost, usually in bunker-like underground reinforced concrete sarcophagi. A company is now producing batteries from this hazardous waste to be used in all kinds of vehicles, cars, electric aircraft, etc.