So much for the "end of lithium" that someone was espousing to me last
month...
On 10/5/17 7:41 AM, Rory Conaway wrote:
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
