The world just became a better place
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:24 pm
Scientists build battery that can charge in seconds
Breakthrough battery can be used in everything from electric cars to smartphones
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/batt ... 33135.html
The biggest hurdle we have faced to cheap, clean, sustainable energy is the difficulty of energy storage. Existing batteries are inefficient, take a long time to charge and are made of rare minerals that are hard to source and hard to recycle.
The new batteries are made from sodium. Cheap, plentiful, endlessly renewable sodium may soon make it possible to charge your phone, your car etc in seconds. Batteries of this kind would allow us to store the energy from solar and wind to use when it's dark and still. These batteries could be made from the waste sodium from desalinization, solving two problems at once, and they already have a process for mass-producing them.
Cheaper, safer, greater charge, and more efficient batteries will improve everything. The world just became a better place.
Breakthrough battery can be used in everything from electric cars to smartphones
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/batt ... 33135.html
The biggest hurdle we have faced to cheap, clean, sustainable energy is the difficulty of energy storage. Existing batteries are inefficient, take a long time to charge and are made of rare minerals that are hard to source and hard to recycle.
The new batteries are made from sodium. Cheap, plentiful, endlessly renewable sodium may soon make it possible to charge your phone, your car etc in seconds. Batteries of this kind would allow us to store the energy from solar and wind to use when it's dark and still. These batteries could be made from the waste sodium from desalinization, solving two problems at once, and they already have a process for mass-producing them.
Cheaper, safer, greater charge, and more efficient batteries will improve everything. The world just became a better place.