New all-solid sulfur-based battery outperforms lithium-ion technology

Physorg ^ | June 5, 2013

[DB]

If these can be produced cheaply and they last a long time this is a very big deal.

[DB]

But it is way more heat than you need to stay warm and still remains largely wasted heat.

[moose07]

Battery Tech Ping...
It’s Hugh and Series!

[Jonty30]

It needed a name.

[factoryrat]

Yeah, that’s cold, about as bad as Michigan in the winter. Fuel cells generate heat as a byproduct of the reaction, and it can be used to warm us folks from much colder climates. The idea is to wring as much energy out of a pound of fuel as possible. Chemistry dictates just how much energy we can get from pound of fuel. Following this path will take us to energy independence.

[dalereed]

I don’t give a damn how much heat or energy I waste!

My vehicles will run on gasoline!!!!!

[fabian]

seriesly hugh!

[Smokin' Joe]

Just doing our part to fend off the next Ice Age.

[Smokin' Joe]

About as cold? When Michigan has -50 temps and -146 wind chill, it will have matched what I have worked in in North Dakota.

[outofsalt]

“...anecdotal posts that will be here until there is no here, here.”

and by, “here” you of course mean Thailand.

[Jonty30]

Sounds positively balmy, compared to a typical Alberta deep freeze.

[Right Wing Assault]

When I was a kid living at the South Pole, we used to walk 20 miles to school at -200F in a 300 mi/h wind. And that was just for summer school.

[Smokin' Joe]

40 below is 40 below, no matter where you are.

[Moltke]

If this works out as advertised, these guys will be able to hire Bill Gates as a shoeshine boy...

[Jonty30]

That is true, but that’s what we call an early Spring and we then hit the beach.

[Jonty30]

If it does work as advertised. Unfortunately not all lab experiments work under real-life adverse conditions or they cannot be scaled up.

[GoDuke]

“Chief among the ORNL battery’s other advantages is its use of elemental sulfur, a plentiful industrial byproduct of petroleum processing.”

That will make the lib’s heads explode!

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Who knows it might take 2 months to recharge.

[Freeport]

Nice, but:
1) How does it do from -40 F to 150 F?
2) Sulfer is very brittle. How does it do under shock and vibration conditions?
3) Battery components expand and contract at different rates depending on the material, humidity, temperature, air pressure, etc. How do the operational internal stresses degrade the battery?

There are a bunch more, but these are the top three. And usually, new battery technologies fail, badly, at one of the above and never see the light of day.

[Freeport]

And, unfortunately, quite right.