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Covid mutating into worse strains, murder hornets invade USA, economy doomed....I'm suffering severe bad news fatigue . So when a little bit of good news showed up on my feed, I decided to share it.

Looks like a new type battery pretty much way superior in every way to that lithium ion time bomb you're lugging around in your cellphone or tablet is on the way.

https://youtu.be/g0nA8CfxBqA

This is just the video I chose to share about it, there are several others and news articles too, plus a patent's been filed. I checked up on this a while before posting this. Looks pretty solid.

No more exploding cell phones, cheaper, more powerful, longer lasting and eco friendly batteries may be here soon.

So if you use anything with a battery in it this might be a little good news for you,and aren't you up for some?

Energy storage is the key to the future. Always nice to see improvements in battery tech.

New tech can always sound great, but can also take ages to actually enter the market. Not just because there's typically a refinement period between invention and practical designs; but also because sometimes companies don't want to re-tool and change. So it takes one making a gamble (that this new tech lasts a long time and isn't replaced by something even more amazing in a weeks time - or a few months after they've just finished a major factory rebiuld); or a new startup company investing into it and providing them at cheap prices, often undercutting the previous technology, so that other firms are eager to buy up the stock.



better energy storage is fantastic and just what we need. IT opens the doors for some renewable power supplies to be done in a larger scale in some regions when they can store up the power which can then be used at peak times rather than in the moment.

Without watching it, is this the "layered carbon" battery thing they've been trying to figure out for a while now?

 Elbows wrote:
Without watching it, is this the "layered carbon" battery thing they've been trying to figure out for a while now?

Not sure but unlikely, the main ingredient in these seems to be treated glass.

As to their viability, IF the spiel on these is even half correct, they look like a go. First off insurance companies will back these as they would reduce claims based on LI batteries exploding. Also elon musk would probably sink money into R&D on these as if the hype is close to true they make his teslas vastly more attractive and effective.

Add in the publicity the makers get from making "green" batteries and these are probably a go on all fronts. The one issue I'm uncertain on is recharge speed.