RE:RE:RE:RE:I hear that bigask is...And there is the rub to your whole argument, time. And cost to get these silicon batteries to work and to market. In the meantime, manufactors are going with a proven concept. And with the low purification cost, and a more enviromental friendly method to achieve purification, two points that were not available until the Albany discovery, manufactors may decide to forsake your method and exploit the use of graphite even more than currently done in the market.
So what method is currently in use and can futher be refined to do who knows what, and what method is still years away from being more than a lab experiment.