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Stanford Develops Fast-Charging, Stable Aluminum Battery
An anonymous reader writes: Stanford researchers have announced the creation of an aluminum-ion battery that they say will charge quicker, last longer, and be generally safer than common lithium-ion batteries. "Aluminum has long been an attractive material for batteries, mainly because of its low cost, low flammability and high-charge storage capacity. For decades, researchers have tried unsuccessfully to develop a commercially viable aluminum-ion battery. A key challenge has been finding materials capable of producing sufficient voltage after repeated cycles of charging and discharging. ... For the experimental battery, the Stanford team placed the aluminum anode and graphite cathode, along with an ionic liquid electrolyte, inside a flexible, polymer-coated pouch." The researchers' main challenges now are getting the battery to produce a higher voltage and store energy at a higher densities.
"The researchers' main challenges now are getting the battery to produce a higher voltage and store energy at a higher densities."
So basically, they're only challenges left are making it into a decent battery?
You can light steel wool with a common cigarette lighter. We should definitely stop making firetrucks out of steel.
Actually, our addiction to reproduction is fucking up the planet. Since there is no escape route (space is a dead end), electric cars vs gasoline is fiddling while Rome is burning.
Given that we seem to be regressing towards a medieval fiefdom-style economy, no one will be able to AFFORD a car soon!
This is one of the things we europeans do right -- we build our houses out of stone.
That's awesome for regions that don't have appreciable seismic activity.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.