Posted on 08/05/2025 6:26:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
I concieved of something like this decades ago. Dang near drove me mad tinkering with it. The problem always comes with electrolytle compatability.
This will probably take decades to develop.
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Next year’s AI is going to be several orders of magnitude more powerful than this year’s AI. Same goes for the next coupe years.
That suggests a shorter timeline to development.
Yes, you have to have a large surplus of ‘free’ electrons available to carry the current...............
It wasn’t the AI that conceived the method. Rather it was the AI that executed method that discovered the new materials.
AI is another year or more away from being able to conceive its own methods to test and then testing them.
But already the initial stages of that are underway. What’s his name from chatgpt say’s they’re about 20 percent there.
If I HAD money to invest, it would definitely be in battery tech. We have them in everything, we simply can’t live without them.
I can use it when we have a power outage as well. Not to power an entire house, but for charging cell phones, radios, and computers. 12V DC, as well as 110 V AC. It’s great battery technology.
Great so now instead of lithium fires, we’ll have magnesium fires.....
I have no doubt that batteries will power a small part of our civilization for years to come but it will not be as is imagined by the green fanatics of today. The Toyota hybrid model that uses a small ICE powering a generator that powers electric motor driven wheels is good. The ICE can also power the car if the electrics fail. No plug-in station needed.
But there are many places in the USA where the ICE is far better suited for all transportation needs.
…electric is by far the most efficient, controllable and reliable means of mechanical movement…
…diesel electric trains will be around for years to come…
…but they just don’t quite have the sex appeal for current generations…
…so hybrid with “fuel” storage for both are what is being pushed…
…the main point of contention currently is the inefficiency of electric storage…
…but it seems no thought has been given to the inherent loss of the efficiency in transferring energy through multiple means…
…having the cake and eating it too needs to be removed from the equation…
The DOD and DARPA are already getting Al+Graphene cells they have 3+ election charges per atom, can charge at 66C rates and have cycle lives in the 20,000 range. For drones of course. It’s only a matter of time before those cells make it to commercial use. Currently only the Gov can afford the Gucci expensive graphene part of the cell. When you have uncle suger money graphene at gold prices per gram don’t matter performance does. The university of Queensland has a process to bulk make graphene from methane they patented and are commercializing it should open the market for Al Gr cells right up.
These guys
https://graphenemg.com/graphene-products/graphene-aluminium-ion-battery/
Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the earth’s crust. Carbon is in the air and every living thing can be heated in a closed system and turned to carbon and ash with that ash loaded with calcium,phosphorus and magnesium too.
Virtually every rock in the crust other than carbonates are (aluminium,calcium,magnesium)-silicates, basalt of the oceans crust is Fe,Mg,Ca,Al silicates with 10-14% Al even in basalts.
Top ten by mass in the crust.
oxygen (~46.6%)
silicon (~27.7%)
aluminum (~8.1%)
iron (~5.0%)
calcium (~3.6%)
sodium (~2.6%)
potassium (~2.8%)
magnesium (~2.1%)
hydrogen (~0.14%)
titanium (~0.56%)
With silicate leaching process you can break any of the SiO4 really all of them with sulfuric acid and a halide catalyst like fluorine or chlorine where (M)=metals,[Al,Fe,Mg,Ca,T
I]..(M)SiO4 into (M)SOx aquas then precipitate out the corresponding solid sulfate.. This means you can solution mine every rock type on earth for any and all of its metal elements at will every where. Supercritical CO2 plus hot water also does a bang up job of breaking silicates apart bringing the metals up with it. You can participate metallic carbonates like sulfates it’s how some nuclear fuel reprocessing works they use carbonates not nitrates. Most of the metals form solid carbonates.
Point is with modern chemistry and human knowledge we will never be short on any element in the above list ever. The supply is limitless when you start solution mining the crust. We do this for uranium today, and we get phosphates and titanium as by products. Lithium is also solution mined and it is the origin of the Sileach process to begin with lithium silicates are clays easier to find than lithium brines.
You will never be allowed to have this car but if you were it would take you 1300 miles on a tank at 100+ mpg it returned 2.2L/100km that’s 108 freedom units per gallon.
Notice they ran the pack to zero something you would not normally do the ICE would kick on at 20% or so but they forced a zero run so all of the energy was coming from the generator and it still ran 1300 Fing miles. Impressive tech to say the least.
https://www.adamasintel.com/1300-mile-range-14000-chinese-ev-you-wont-get-in-us/
Modern power electronics are simply more efficient than automatic hydro mechanical transmissions. Especially when you only run your generator at it’s peak brake specific fuel efficiency point. This one does 45% to the pack no ICE anywhere is touching that via a hydro mechanical transmission to the wheels. The physics makes fudds big mad but it is physics after all and could careless about feelings.
I dont see why it’s so hard to grasp other than scientific ignorance. Spinning a mass of fluid around and mashing gears , clutches and bearings is lose lose and lose losses. Vs spinning a single moving part inside a magnetic field and sending those electrons to another single spinning rotor inside another magnetic field driving at most one set of reduction gears to the wheels.
The proof is in the pudding, the Camry 24 ICE gets 28 mpg city the identically sized hybrid Camry does 51 mpg game set match..boom drops Mike he is dead Jim.
So much so Toyota won’t sell you a Camry that is not driven by a EDU anymore.
Mexico is getting those BYD hybrids once the factory undone building.
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