[Sirius Lee]

Liying Tian, Zhenghao Yang, Shiyi Yuan, Tye Milazzo, Qian Cheng, Syed Rasool, Wenrui Lei, Wenbo Li, Yucheng Yang, Tianwei Jin, Shengyu Cong, Joseph Francis Wild, Yonghua Du, Tengfei Luo, Donghui Long and Yuan Yang

I can't believe Columbia let a white supremecist in.

[iontheball]

The obvious problem presented by a battery is that it is not an original power source. It stores power that has to be generated from another power source. Where is the original power coming from? Every time power is transferred from one source to the other some of it is lost. I see a battery as a convenience item not a mainstay power source. It used to be that you had to hand crank your car’s engine to get it started. Now the battery holds energy that is used on demand to crank the engine making the job more convenient.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

From the article text --- "...but they face a major hurdle: they don't consistently generate power when demand is high."

So much reporting these days is about marketing an "idea" hoping for venture capital before demonstrable tests prove a product worthy of the market. A review of all the bankruptcies in the "renewable" markets since Obama and Chu shows this easily. Massive sums lost (government and private investors alike), while the few pocket the change.

[Wuli]

“This electrolyte can dissolve K2S2 and K2S, enhancing the energy density and power density of intermediate-temperature K/S batteries. In addition, it enables the battery to operate at a much lower temperature (around 75°C) than previous designs, while still achieving almost the maximum possible energy storage capacity.”

75 Celcius is 147 Fahrenheit

Does that mean they are not so capable at operating temperatures below 147 Fahrenhiet? If so, they have a long way to go in terms of practical uses.

[aquila48]

Research participants...

“Liying Tian, Zhenghao Yang, Shiyi Yuan, Tye Milazzo, Qian Cheng, Syed Rasool, Wenrui Lei, Wenbo Li, Yucheng Yang, Tianwei Jin, Shengyu Cong, Joseph Francis Wild, Yonghua Du, Tengfei Luo, Donghui Long and Yuan Yang,”

Thank God for Chinese imports otherwise we’d be second rate in new advances

[marktwain]

75 degrees Celcius is 167 degrees Fahrenheit. It is well below the boiling point of water. Much easier and less expensive to maintain such a temperature.

It would be nice to know the energy density of such a battery. One source gives the energy density of a solid state sodium-sulfur battery as 1 kwhr/kg, with production starting in 2025. 1kwhr/kg is five times the energy density of the best li-ion batteries today!

An energy density increase of even 3x makes electric vehicles fairly competitive for many uses.

Then we just need cheap and plentiful electricity to make them fully competitive.

The Tesla truck has a current capacity of 125 kwhrs and a range of 320 miles. 3X would give it a range of 960 miles. 5x would give it a range of 1600 miles.

[Gen.Blather]

I’ve been reading about fantastic battery discoveries that will change everything since the late sixties. I suspect this is driven by the publish or perish life of university professors.

[butlerweave]

YAWN , Oh another breakthrough

[logi_cal869]

Wake me when the stocks of the following lithium companies crash.

Albemarle (ALB)

SQM (NYSE:SQM)

Arcadium Lithium (ALTM)

Pilbara Minerals

Lithium Americas Corp. (LAC)

[Bob434]

These “battery breakthroughs” are kinda getting like the “cancer treatment breakthroughs” that never seem to materialize.

I hope they can solve both honestly, but been waiting many many moons for cancer treatments that don’t make folks sick and work almost 100%- on all cancers! But that is a dream me thinks

[BlackbirdSST]

Yesterdays breakthrough was deemed to be "Silicate Magic". Todays version "Columbia Engineers have developed a new, more powerful “fuel” for batteries—an electrolyte that is not only longer-lasting but also cheaper to produce." is like Brawndo, it is fueled by electrolytes. Plants will crave it!

[Mastador1]

It's not enough that we cover hundreds of acres with solar panels and wind turbines, we now have to increase that by how many more hundreds of acres of battery farms?

Liberals and insane Gaia worshippers prohibit everyday Americans from using thousands and thousand of acres for recreation because it will harm the ecosystem and animals...then they completely destroy thousands of acres of those same critical habitats for their windmills and solar farms.

Liberals and Gaia worshipers, can't reason with them, can't shoot them.

[minnesota_bound]

Articles about electric battery breakthrough’s have appeared for the last 120 years. Gas and diesel still are the best by far.