To: Red Badger
Looks to me like MIT professor YetMing Chiang, and the company he started, A123, is based on a lie.
6 posted on
05/27/2011 11:40:55 AM PDT by
mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre
Thanks for the link. Interesting read. What caught my eye in the original article was sufficient to call into question the viability of Mr. Chiang's claims.
Challenges remain before the battery can be commercialized. The electrical conductivity is still about 100 times less than it should be in a practical system, Chiang says. He's also working on increasing the concentration of active materials in the sludge.
They should have reworded it to "the battery's internal resistance is 100 times higher". Probably adequate for frying grilled cheese sandwiches, but not for an electric car.
19 posted on
05/27/2011 12:10:04 PM PDT by
PA Engineer
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