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New Glass Electrolyte batteries
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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/20...131144.htm
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So way totally cool
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(03-04-2017, 02:46 PM)Dyne Wrote:
  • 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/20...131144.htm

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!
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