Submitted by DonHester on Wed, 03/08/2017 - 13:24.
New Battery Power- is it Goodenough!
Wenatchee Home Inspection
Well it has yet to be seen if this can pan out in large scale but one of the co-inventors of the Lithium-Ion battery has made another breakthrough.
John Goodenough has lead a team with senior research fellow Maria Helena Braga from University of Texas at Austin in a new battery technology that if it performs as stated will revolutionize the battery world.
Based on the report the battery will be a solid state battery with 3 times the storage as a lithium ion battery, will work in temperatures down to -20 C (-4 F) and still operate down to -60C (-76F) which is huge for those living in the northern cold regions. The new battery showed little degradation at 1200 charge cycles due to the use of a glass solid state battery.
Braga stated that “The glass electrolytes allow for the substitution of low-cost sodium for lithium. Sodium is extracted from seawater that is widely available”. This makes the battery even more environmentally friendly.
This would be a huge advancement for mobile devices, cars and many other applications. Just imagine an electric car with a 600 mile range or a laptop with 18 to 20 hr battery life.
“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.”
William Shakespeare
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