What voltage and amperage?
What products are they best suited for? Hearing aids, handheld phones, Teslas?
All the ingredients come from sea water? How many acre-feet of water is needed to make one battery? these things are going to cost an exorbitant amount.
Also no specifics regards little things like availability, initial confioguration, and price.
Until that happens it’s just more vaporware.
If IBM has patented this tech, the Chinese have already purloined the filing and are busily racing to market with a clone.
The downside is, they’re probably as big as a house
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Lots of energy in a small space; what could possibly go wrong?
“the Oasis Group 31 battery from Firefly International Energy “ — First the development, mass manufacturing technique needed, then bankrupt.
10 years to market is easily 20 years without a production method.
No innovation was possible in the solar cell industry with the Chinese doing dumping and thwarting predictive business model costs—stuck on first generation technology. IMHO
Maybe someone at IBM went rogue again in a Swiss research lab per superconductors.
IBM Battery has power capacity 1/1000th that of simple gasoline.
Why?
Why so low and miserly?
Because electricity is NOT gasoline !
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Great! Just in time to power my flying car!
Hurrah!
Spoke with one of my gnomes, possibly this is utilizing sodium magnesium sulfate, found in sea water. the Sulfur battery has been a bit of a holy grail, we need to learn more. The question I have is does this delve into the anti-petrovites that QuantumScape (look into who and what they are doing) is working on.
The big one here is the 5 min charge time to 80%, again IMHO the next beach-head is charge times...
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/12/heavy-metal-free-battery/
Most noteworthy to me is the group of heavy hitters IBM has partnered with to commercialize this battery chemistry. This sort of partnership means that the technical and economic feasibilities will be at high levels and big capital $$$ are ready to go. While not explicitly mentioned, I assume that product and manufacturing engineering are well along. Manufacturing alone will be several billion $$$.
“The three components, IBM said, can all be extracted from sea water, meaning the environmental damage...”
Must be a Sodium based battery technology. Excellent!
While IBM has some serious research chops, they don’t mess around with items without commercial value.
Actually, we are now obtaining lithium from hydraulic fracturing flowback.
Businesses have already commercialized this process.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3787679/posts
Other “gotchas” on these new wonder batteries is temperature range and self-discharge rate.
Children in the Congo are slaving and dying in lithium mines to provide the raw resource for these batteries. Liberals don’t care because they love their iPhones. These products are extremely harmful to the environment, but liberals don’t care because they love their iPhones. Someone is making serious bank by enslaving or promoting the enslavement of these poor black children. Who?
One other area of concern... Sure the battery tech can support an 80% charge in 5 min... But what about heat dissipation during that time? Consider a Tesla has an 85 kWh battery. That's an awful lot of energy to deliver very quickly. A Tesla supercharging station delivers about 150 kW of power at 480 volts. That works out to about 300 amps. That takes 40 minutes to charge. If you want to deliver the same energy in 5 minutes... You're going to need more volts and/or more amps, about 7X more of one or the other. I would say both are already at the fairly scary-high level right now with a supercharging station.
LOL - I had a typo in this briefly in the last sentence. It said "...supercharing station." Which at these levels of power delivery might not be a typo after all...