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boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost

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Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost

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boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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The US Department of Energy just committed a $400 million loan to battery maker Eos.
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        Thank you Firefox and pi-hole… (I’m like "what popups? What ads?)

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            I remember when at my 2-4 grade school my teachers talked about “x-ing” out of programs and applications on a computer instead of closing. Something like this would be a surprise.

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      Yeah, it’s pretty fucking awful, even with ublock origin on Android. Found a better source:

      https://www.energy.gov/lpo/articles/lpo-announces-conditional-commitment-eos-energy-enterprises-produce-next-generation

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        If you disable javascript in ublock it is actually readable

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      LOL I have Ublock Origin so I don’t see the pop-ups but the website just freezes after 3 seconds of scrolling, and I have to leave. They’ve really ruined their site. 😆

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    “Think again, Jimmy. You see the firing pin in your gun was made out of, yep, zinc.”

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      “Come back, zinc! Come back!”

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    I wonder if it can be cheaper and better at scale than iron-air batteries. Those seem inexpensive to make, and can carry a large enough capacity if you put a whole lot of them in parallel with each other, and have a long lifetime. They’re just really heavy for their amount of energy density and fairly low current per cell, but that shouldn’t be a problem when building enough to be grid-scale.

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      At that point one can use Na/O2… Much higher energy released by redox reaction, much lighter

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    Looks promising, but not soon, I think.

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    No. Move to bio-based supercapacitors that uses biopolymers.

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      No, move to naquadah reactors that use goa’uld metamaterials

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    electric car problem solved?

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      Energy density on these are woefully inadequate for cars, but that doesn’t matter for stationary storage which is what this is for.

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        I’m more interested in how they will troubleshoot and perform preventative maintenance to the battery, since halides are quite toxic.

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          First they need to see if they work and can be produced economically

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