[DiogenesLaertius]

I have only one question: why was this discovered in Korea and not the United States?

[Red Steel]

Getting up there with the Star Trek power packs.

[Parley Baer]

Interesting especially if the real world application results are the same as in the laboratory.

[dr_who]

Bloody nanotechnology!

[Jotmo]

This is the only way electric cars will be economically viable.

It would be great if true, but we'll see how it works in real world applications and scaled up to electric car battery sizes.

[editor-surveyor]

Didn’t this come up about 3 or 4 years ago, and the consensus was that the battery would be too unstable, and might explode?

[jz638]

You’re getting more miles for less money, with no fossil fuel use - especially if your electrity comes from a renewable source.

yup, no fossil fuels used in warming that argon stuff up to 900 degrees celsius to make the fancy batteries, none used in producing solar cells and windmills for charging them, none used in extruding the plastic body panels, etc...

[B4Ranch]

ping

[JoJo Gunn]

ping

[Petronski]

I remember poo-poohing similar claims not that long ago about a breakthrough in hard drive capacity using quantum mechanics.

“Suuuuuure,” I said.

Then one day, I noticed a 30GB laptop drive cost far less than I’d not long ago spent for a 340MB drive—and yet was thinner!—and I took notice. Not long after, those two “breakers-through” won the Nobel Prize and I paid even less still for a 160GB drive.

[Centurion2000]

Cho Jaephil, has claimed a discovery that could extend lithium ion battery energy capacity by up to 1000% or more.

Great, 10 times the life .... what about surge power applications?

I want my pocket railgun / phaser.

[norton]

My own fetish has always been family sized power packs, solar (urban) plus wind (urban and rural) or whatever;
problem (aside from cost) has always been what to do during down times (batteries).

What's this do for that concept?

[decal]

“...extend lithium ion battery energy capacity by up to 1000% or more.”

“Department of Redundancy Department, please pick up and lift the white courtesy phone device.”

[Kevmo]

3 dimensional porosity sounds like sinterization to me.

[ConservativeMind]

Unfortunately, this does nothing to help address the scarcity of usable lithium supplies.

[PapaBear3625]

Imagine having an electric car that gets 1600 miles per charge, with a full charge costing you less than a regular tank of gas.

The energy in a gallon of gas is 1.3x10⁸ joules, which equals 36 Kwh. At a household cost of 12 cents/Kwh, that's $4.33 for an amount of electricity that would equal the energy of one gallon of gas.

Now, electric cars are much more energy efficient than the internal combustion engine, so the real cost will probably be closer to $1 - $2, but it's still not free.

[big'ol_freeper]

Nice.

[Bellflower]

What remained were carbon-coated silicon crystals in a continuous, three-dimensional, highly porous structure.

I wonder if the crystal arrangement is fractoid in nature. I wonder if anyone has applied the fractoid concept to the anodic material.