And a company called MGC just figured out how to extract Lithium profitably from brine sea water. They have a plant being built now.
Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 5:18 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Rice University Adds Asphalt To Speed Lithium Metal Battery Charging By 20 Times Says who? :) On Oct 5, 2017 7:03 AM, "Cameron Crum" <cc...@wispmon.com<mailto:cc...@wispmon.com>> wrote: But, isn't he whole idea of these things to get away from using the dreaded oil? Look! We are making these super toxic batteries to save the planet from the ravages of oil! And now we are making them better by adding...oil. I'm so confused... On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com<mailto:j...@kyneticwifi.com>> wrote: Originally found on slashdot: "The capacity of these batteries is enormous, but what is equally remarkable is that we can bring them from zero charge to full charge in five minutes, rather than the typical two hours or more needed with other batteries," Tour said. "While the capacity between the former and this new battery is similar, approaching the theoretical limit of lithium metal, the new asphalt-derived carbon can take up more lithium metal per unit area, and it is much simpler and cheaper to make. There is no chemical vapor deposition step, no e-beam deposition step and no need to grow nanotubes from graphene, so manufacturing is greatly simplified." http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.7b05874
