Scientists uncover new battery chemical with 50 percent more storage capacity

V3 ^ | April 16, 2018 | by Lee Bell

[LegendHasIt]

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.

[Menehune56]

I see Manganese is FREE element. Free is good. Excellent!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Hardly free.
Pure MG will run $3,000/ton...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

MN...not MG.

[WayneS]

No kidding.

I’m going to have to stop sending my home water filter backwash sediment to the landfill.

[Pontiac]

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.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

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.

[Kartographer]

Manganese causes Global Warming, kills whales and is racist!!

[wally_bert]

That’s just for starters.

[Wuli]

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.

[Kartographer]

“Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.”
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #9

[GingisK]

Lithium, Florine, and they made such a fuss over lead.

[Ozark Tom]

Intercalated carbon electrodes.

[catnipman]

“Scientists uncover new battery chemical with 50 percent more storage capacity”

let me guess ... Unobtainium?

[Oscar in Batangas]

That makes it cheaper than pure hamburger...so that’s pretty cheap

[GOPJ]

Intercalated carbon electrodes.

Refreshing it's not graphene - I was kinda being sarcastic... Thanks for clearing that up.

[Swordmaker]

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. it’ll hurt the children.