https://news.mit.edu/2016/lithium-metal-batteries-double-power-consumer-electronics-0817
Is this for real? Does anyone know how many cycles their batteries can do?
This could revolutionize everything that is portable that uses a battery. Phones would last 4 days and EVs could go 700 miles.
No. They will make thinner phones
>>56189527
Fucking this, unfortunately.
We won't get longer lasting phones, we'll get thinner ones that have just as shit battery and will go full wireless everything so they can save manufacturing costs while charging us more.
>>56189585
>while charging us more.
i think we do enough charging ourselves nowadays
Seriously, how is 1200W/L 'safe'?
>>56189657
The energy potential within a medium is not what makes it dangerous, the volatility of the chemistry is.
A spoonful of butter has enough energy in it to power your smartphone for a week. Butter however is not volatile, even during combustion it burns slowly.
Lithium likes to shit out its potential all at once in a crazy violent reaction, so an electrolyte solution which accelerates this can be less than safe.