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Scientists uncover new battery chemical with 50 percent more storage capacity
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| April 16, 2018
| by Lee Bell
Posted on 04/18/2018 12:13:23 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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Actually, Lithium Manganese batteries have been on the market for about 20 years.
They probably have come up with an improved construction technique, but the general chemistry is hardly new or earthshaking.
And yes, Manganese is very plentiful; Even in the US,( unlike cobalt). You ever driven through the desert and seen the rocks stained like they had black ink or paint poured over them? That is manganese dioxide. I know several idle mines that have millions of tons of it just waiting to be dug, in veins a few feet thick.
To: ETL
I see Manganese is FREE element. Free is good. Excellent!
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posted on
04/18/2018 1:35:50 PM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: WayneS
Hardly free.
Pure MG will run $3,000/ton...
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posted on
04/18/2018 1:37:31 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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posted on
04/18/2018 1:40:25 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
No kidding.
I’m going to have to stop sending my home water filter backwash sediment to the landfill.
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posted on
04/18/2018 1:41:23 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: \/\/ayne; Swordmaker
Does it blow up good? Few people think about it
the more energy capacity batteries have the better bombs they make
A battery with 50% greater storage capacity is a 50% better bomb.
A car with such a. Battery in it would be at least as dangerous as a gasoline car. It can be considered a factory built car bomb.
All a terrorist would need to do is wire in a switch that short circuits the battery.
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posted on
04/18/2018 2:01:43 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
To: WayneS
Published price is $1.65/lb or about $3,300 per short ton.
I would expect this to bounce once manganese becomes a more important commodity.
There is a massive deposit in northern Minnesota, discovered by drilling for iron ore in the late 1940s. Several hundred acres. Millions of tons. Very pure.
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posted on
04/18/2018 3:26:17 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: wally_bert
Manganese causes Global Warming, kills whales and is racist!!
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posted on
04/18/2018 3:32:10 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
That’s just for starters.
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posted on
04/18/2018 4:37:46 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Swordmaker
Necessity is the mother of invention.
When there’s a shortage, an excessive cost, an inefficient process it does not mean “tragedy” it means opportunity.
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posted on
04/18/2018 5:28:44 PM PDT
by
Wuli
To: Wuli
“Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.”
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #9
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posted on
04/18/2018 5:48:27 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Swordmaker
Lithium, Florine, and they made such a fuss over lead.
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posted on
04/18/2018 5:51:03 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: GOPJ
Intercalated carbon electrodes.
To: Swordmaker
“Scientists uncover new battery chemical with 50 percent more storage capacity”
let me guess ... Unobtainium?
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posted on
04/18/2018 7:56:06 PM PDT
by
catnipman
( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
That makes it cheaper than pure hamburger...so that’s pretty cheap
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posted on
04/18/2018 8:47:02 PM PDT
by
Oscar in Batangas
(12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
To: Ozark Tom
Intercalated carbon electrodes. Refreshing it's not graphene - I was kinda being sarcastic... Thanks for clearing that up.
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posted on
04/18/2018 9:19:49 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
( "Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance." - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
To: Kartographer
Manganese causes Global Warming, kills whales and is racist!! You forgot it will put all those child miners in Africa out of work . . . I.e. itll hurt the children.
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posted on
04/19/2018 1:51:48 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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