Scientists have used cellulose nanofibrils found in wood as the basis for a new battery electrolyteHayDmitriy/Depositphotos
Scientists have used cellulose nanofibrils found in wood as the basis for a new battery electrolyteHayDmitriy/Depositphotos
All trees are to be destroyed or put off limits since they can help with energy.
“Made from wood” == carbon. Wood sounded cooler in the press release than coal or oil.
What are the Enviro-Weenies gonna do about this? They NEED those batteries to run their phones and laptops and e-cars and e-bikes, but the ‘scientists’ now want to use TREES to power these things, versus filling landfills full of poisonous lithium, leaching into waterways...which they dare not even WHISPER about!
Heads Exploding! ;)
Dendrites are a bit like the tin-whiskers that plague engineers ever since the EU passed those laws requiring the use of tin/silver solder instead of the much better tin/lead solder...grrrrr
An electrolyte from wood is an unexpected turn...
The holy-grail of battery tech is development of a super-capacitor that can replace the batteries we use now.. a suitable supercap would last pretty much forever, be lightweight, charge almost instantly and hold an enormous load of electrons... you can charge a supercap so quickly that you must limit the inrush current or your power supply/charger will fail.
I have worked with small supercaps, mostly while investigating their use for implanted bio-medical devices that can be recharged using a simple method almost exactly like the wireless chargers for cellphones.
woodn’t ya know it? Just as i was abotu to invent one that runs on rhubarb
First I’ve heard of this.
My guess - just a guess - is that the cellulose referenced is a high purity dissolving cellulose, probably from Southern pine. The last time I checked, there were only two or three manufacturing plants in the U.S. that could manufacture it.
The stuff is amazing.