RE:End of Lithium batteries !!! Bye Bye BernardEnoughBull wrote:
Lab scale possiblilities and concept are not all scalable and even if so...commercialization can be over 10-15-20 years away
Meantime....silicon implementation is few short years away ..near horizon.
QRR can be disruptive game changer in which Si at various purities are used in countless everyday appilications the world uses and need.
Long and strong HPQ!!!
https://e360.yale.edu/features/alternate-ev-battery-technology In fact, battery researchers are more likely to succeed in commercializing silicon anodes than they are to perfect a solid-state technology, some experts say. Silicon has potentially twice the energy density of graphite, which is typically used in lithium-ion batteries, and it’s much more widely available. (Silicon’s feedstock is sand.) A silicon-anode battery could be available in just a few years. The main challenge has been silicon’s tendency to expand as it charges and discharges. “The volume changes almost 300 percent if you’re doing it to its maximum capacity,” says Brian Cunningham, a technology development manager with the U.S. Department of Energy, “and that creates a lot of mechanical strain on the entire structure,” making it unlikely the battery could survive a commercial vehicle’s requisite charge-discharge cycles. “We’re engineering solutions to reduce that stress and strain,” he says.