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I dont see any reason why silicon

[patience123]

Cant replace graphite completely.  Silicons ability to store ions is vastly superior to graphite if it outperforms or is at least on par with graphite charging cycles and is as physically stable as graphite then whats the head scratcher? Elon even said himself they will gravitate towards a battery with more and more silicon.  He gives it a time frame of another three years or so im willing to bet it will be a lot sooner.  What would it cost to build say 20 nano silicon reactors if you had unlimited wealth and rescources.  How many other big players out there who would give anything to to to take the advantage and lead in front of Elon just as a pure lust for control of the space! Gonna get interesting for sure once the electrical properties of this stuff is proven in my opinion to be vastly superior.  The next step is who wants it badly enough!

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[TITANIUMJOE]

If you watch all of the recent YouTube videos on the limiting factor channel they explain that the benefits start to decline once you go higher than 30% silicon. Of course this may be solved by using a different electrolyte or with further advancements but so far a 30% silicon anode looks to be the most promising. 

[patience123]

hmmm yes....the limiting factor...and exactly what size of silicon was he referrring to? Was it nano silicon? How about carbon coated nano silicon? Did he have all the data on that to determine 30% was the the maximum and most efficient? Oh what about a biproduct of silicon that hpq thought was important enough to put a patent on? Does he have the electical characteristics of that by any chance? &

[Pitpitcolisse]

So the fact he doesn't have all those answers makes you think your speculations are good?   Yes some are working on 100% silicon anode (Sila, Amprius) but even with carbon coating and nano size there are many challenges and resolving those challenges is costly and probably that those would not be economical for mass production, and especially a challenge to include in cylindrical

[patience123]

im not speculating at all...All im saying is " we dont know what we dont know" so to put a maximum of 30% silicon and nail a hard number on it at this point in time is a bit premature.  But...if i were to speculate i would say that in the future a 90-100 percent silicon anode will be commin place.  Four years ago i made a post on this board  speculating that PYR could