Posted on 10/02/2019 1:27:49 PM PDT by amorphous
Researchers have been in a race to find ways to improve lithium-ion batteries. They are also looking to develop alternatives to the lithium-ion battery that would be lower cost and more sustainable to manufacture. And they may just have found one.
Aluminum-based batteries would be cheaper to make, because aluminum is the third most abundant element in the Earth’s crust after oxygen and silicon. Aluminum is also light-weight and could be ideal for use in batteries.
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That reminds me of my dad. After seeing the flight of solid fuel rocket hardening with voids, he made me build a "launch bunker".
I hadn't gotten around to the roof yet, when he was sitting inside with me one afternoon to test an aluminum body rocket.
As it exited the launcher, it lost a stabilizing fin, or two, and tipped over in our direction. It flew directly over our heads. He immediately shoved me down, jumping on top of me, in protection mode.
We found the rocket body wreckage later, and we also found a small oak tree sapling the rocket had cut in half!
October Sky Official Trailer - Not me, but brings back memories:
Eddie: Every time Catherine would turn on the microwave, I’d piss my pants and forget who I was for about half an hour.
That said, I just happen to be working on a new design for an external/internal combustion engine, this very day. :)
Yeah, it's interesting to figure out the size of the cable you'd need to pump as much electrical energy into your car as you pump through the gas pump hose when you fill your tank.
The rate at which energy flows through that hose is really amazing, dozens of megajoules per minute. Every gas station would need its own utility substation right next door if electric cars with the range of fossil-fuel powered cars ever become available, and if they figure out how to make those cars take on a full charge in five minutes or less, like you can achieve at a normal gas pump.
Lighter and cheaper is indeed the claim.
Thermite?
There must be an alternate universe where cellphones are still running on triple A batteries.
Didn't know that, but I surmised they did something there that was pretty kinetic.
True, but then there are the engine, transmission, fuel storage, self-life, refining, finding/exploration, and transportation costs.
Energy density is of primary concern when you need a lot of it. When you only need a little available energy, like using your cell phone to call for help, the convenience of electrical storage devices is priceless! ;)
I just wish they still made cell phones with replaceable batteries!
All matter is energy in solid form.
Whoa!
... the battery group was moved to Malta, NY, where there were concrete bunkers left over from WWII.
Good move! :-)
I got your spontaneous combustion (or, infernal combustion engine), right *here.
Eglin AFB has a lot of ranges where various weapons are tested. Around 1960-65 3.5 inch rockets were being tested. Scientists were watching from a bunker.
There were 4 inch slits from which they viewed. One of the rockets went through the slit killing them. I guess if it can happen it eventually will happen.
“Aluminum is essentially energy in solid form. “
Help keep America’s lights burning. Drink more beer!
StarTac?
Don’t use the cheap Harbor jumper cables to wire your trolling motor. The aluminum wiring they’re made from, in a marine environment, will leave you without the use of your trolling motor in less than a year. Ask me how I know...
True. Good thing it's not that easy to release it, at least with ordinary, everyday matter.
Yep. I hadn’t heard that story. Been there a decade ago. Nice folks!
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