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New Glass Electrolyte batteries - Dyne - 03-04-2017
Dunno if you guys caught this the other day on Reddit or wherever, but a team lead by John Goodenough (who co-developed the rechargeable Lithium Ion battery, and also has a great surname) and Maria Helena Braga have come up with a new design for a glass electrolyte battery cell at UT Austin. It's apparently the first solid state design that works below 60 degrees Celsius.
- Low cost (uses sodium rather than lithium)
- Fast charge/discharge
- Can operate as low as -20 degrees C, for when you are trapped on Hoth
- A long time will this battery live (more cycles than lithium-ion)
- You don't know the POWAH of the new battery (at least three times the energy density of a lithium ion battery).
- High capacity (one of the applications mentioned is electric vehicles)
- We all know the imperial probe droid had no self-destruct. Han merely shot it in the battery pack. This type should be less asplodey.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170228131144.htm
RE: New Glass Electrolyte batteries - savagecreature - 03-04-2017
So way totally cool
RE: New Glass Electrolyte batteries - kresty - 03-05-2017
(03-04-2017, 02:46 PM)Dyne Wrote:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170228131144.htm
- We all know the imperial probe droid had no self-destruct. Han merely shot it in the battery pack. This type should be less asplodey.
More density is always good - but I wonder about the explody part. Seems to me that a fundamental problem with energy storage is that you want more energy in a tiny space. And kinda by definition that means that there's more energy to be released when stuff goes wrong. The no dendrites sounds helpful, but I imagine people will figure out other ways to mess them up!