a battery powered future

[Truthmatters]

Breakthrough Technology Could Lead to Battery-Powered Future – ecomagination

 

[Truthmatters]

how far will big oil go to shut this down?

 

[Rat in the Hat]

how far will big oil go to shut this down?

Why would they want to shut it down? They're going to need a lot of oil, coal, gas, and nuke power to charge those batteries.

 

[bobcollum]

I wonder if it's the same liquid metal Apple gained certain rights to a couple of years back. I'd assume it was a trademarked name, but...

 

[Truthmatters]

there are several new developments coming according to the article.

 

[Sunni Man]

Of course you do realize TM that it will take Republican entrepreneurs and investors to make this new battery technology a reality and bring it to the market place?

 

[Truthmatters]

only republicans huh?

 

[Rat in the Hat]

there are several new developments coming according to the article.

Yes, there are. And they seem very promising.

I don't think they'll be using the Liquid Metal Battery in vehicles, however. It would probably be too dangerous in event of an accident.

 

[Truthmatters]

will the oil guys buy it or fight it?

 

[Rat in the Hat]

Of course you do realize TM that it will take Republican entrepreneurs and investors to make this new battery technology a reality and bring it to the market place?

Bill Gates is a Republican??

Liquid Metal Battery—a company pursuing a breakthrough battery design using molten antimony and molten magnesium separated by an electrolyte—attracted Bill Gates and oil company Total as seed investors.

 

[Rat in the Hat]

will the oil guys buy it or fight it?

The oil guys will probably not do either. The world will always need oil, especially to charge all of those new batteries.

 

[Mad Scientist]

how far will big oil go to shut this down?

"Big Oil" is one of the investors you idiot:
Breakthrough Technology Could Lead to Battery-Powered Future – ecomagination

A company pursuing a breakthrough battery design using molten antimony and molten magnesium separated by an electrolyte—attracted Bill Gates and Oil Company Total as seed investors.

Total.com - Page d'accueil

At least rdean learned to read his links before he posted.

 

[Truthmatters]

The inventor of the core technology is Don Sadoway, MIT Professor of Materials Chemistry, one of the school’s most popular professors and sought-after speakers. Using seed money from within MIT, Sadoway and his team invented the liquid metal battery or, more academically, a process called Reversible Ambipolar Electrolysis.

Sadoway claims that the all-liquid configuration is self-assembling and is expected to be scalable at low cost. Furthermore, this technology may have a shot at being cheaper than sodium sulfur (NaS) batteries.

Across the country in Long Beach, CA, Ionex has created the Energy Storage System—a 1-megawatt-hour unit using large-format prismatic batteries based on lithium iron phosphate (LiFePo4). These batteries are capable of producing 1 megawatt or 2 megawatts of continuous AC power from a 40-foot shipping container weighing 35,000 kilograms, which can be mounted on a concrete pad or on a wheeled trailer.

And then there’s A123, who specialize in nanophosphate lithium-ion batteries and systems. With a corporate revenue mix of 50 percent transportation, 40 percent grid, and 10 percent consumer, A123 provides advanced technology solutions at the cell, module and system levels.

Finally, there’s stealthy battery startup Amprius, who’ve raised $25 million and boast investors like Trident, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Stanford University. The firm is using a silicon nanostructure to replace a carbon anode system in batteries.

CEO Kang Sun claims that silicon has “an intrinsic energy density ten times higher than carbon.” He called Amprius “late science stage, early engineering stage” and noted that the firm’s technology is four times better than current technology.

As entrepreneurs and investors continue to focus on developing new battery technology, it’s not unreasonable to surmise that, one day, battery technology will play a major role in the clean energy economy.




gee your an asshole MS


http://www.ecomagination.com/breakt...-battery-powered-future?utm_campaign=outbrain

 

[Rat in the Hat]

The inventor of the core technology is Don Sadoway, MIT Professor of Materials Chemistry, one of the school’s most popular professors and sought-after speakers. Using seed money from within MIT, Sadoway and his team invented the liquid metal battery or, more academically, a process called Reversible Ambipolar Electrolysis.

Sadoway claims that the all-liquid configuration is self-assembling and is expected to be scalable at low cost. Furthermore, this technology may have a shot at being cheaper than sodium sulfur (NaS) batteries.

Across the country in Long Beach, CA, Ionex has created the Energy Storage System—a 1-megawatt-hour unit using large-format prismatic batteries based on lithium iron phosphate (LiFePo4). These batteries are capable of producing 1 megawatt or 2 megawatts of continuous AC power from a 40-foot shipping container weighing 35,000 kilograms, which can be mounted on a concrete pad or on a wheeled trailer.

And then there’s A123, who specialize in nanophosphate lithium-ion batteries and systems. With a corporate revenue mix of 50 percent transportation, 40 percent grid, and 10 percent consumer, A123 provides advanced technology solutions at the cell, module and system levels.

Finally, there’s stealthy battery startup Amprius, who’ve raised $25 million and boast investors like Trident, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Stanford University. The firm is using a silicon nanostructure to replace a carbon anode system in batteries.

CEO Kang Sun claims that silicon has “an intrinsic energy density ten times higher than carbon.” He called Amprius “late science stage, early engineering stage” and noted that the firm’s technology is four times better than current technology.

As entrepreneurs and investors continue to focus on developing new battery technology, it’s not unreasonable to surmise that, one day, battery technology will play a major role in the clean energy economy.




gee your an asshole MS


Breakthrough Technology Could Lead to Battery-Powered Future – ecomagination

MS (and I) quoted part of your OP link showing an oil company funding the research, and you call him an asshole for doing it?

 

[Truthmatters]

yes and do you know what that means?


they dont own the whole industry do they?

they cant shut it down if they dont own it huh?



they have to buy it first.


or they have to find a way to defer it until they cant make money from oil anymore huh?

 

[Ernie S.]

how far will big oil go to shut this down?

AGAIN, you have failed to read your own source material.
From the article:

Liquid Metal Battery—a company pursuing a breakthrough battery design using molten antimony and molten magnesium separated by an electrolyte—attracted Bill Gates and oil company Total as seed investors.

Sure, battery technology is improving, but batteries do not produce energy. They only store it and make it portable, much like a gas tank on your car..
Adding a "middle man" into the mix only allows for more chance of environmental disaster. Google Exide battery plant, Fairfield, CT

 

[Rat in the Hat]

yes and do you know what that means?


they dont own the whole industry do they?

they cant shut it down if they dont own it huh?



they have to buy it first.


or they have to find a way to defer it until they cant make money from oil anymore huh?

Why would they want to shut it down?? You do realize that plastic battery cases are made from petroleum by-products, don't you? There's a huge incentive for oil companies to want them right there.

And also, oil will be needed to generate the electricity that's put into those millions of new batteries. Another win for the oil companies.

 

[Ernie S.]

The inventor of the core technology is Don Sadoway, MIT Professor of Materials Chemistry, one of the school’s most popular professors and sought-after speakers. Using seed money from within MIT, Sadoway and his team invented the liquid metal battery or, more academically, a process called Reversible Ambipolar Electrolysis.

Sadoway claims that the all-liquid configuration is self-assembling and is expected to be scalable at low cost. Furthermore, this technology may have a shot at being cheaper than sodium sulfur (NaS) batteries.

Across the country in Long Beach, CA, Ionex has created the Energy Storage System—a 1-megawatt-hour unit using large-format prismatic batteries based on lithium iron phosphate (LiFePo4). These batteries are capable of producing 1 megawatt or 2 megawatts of continuous AC power from a 40-foot shipping container weighing 35,000 kilograms, which can be mounted on a concrete pad or on a wheeled trailer.

And then there’s A123, who specialize in nanophosphate lithium-ion batteries and systems. With a corporate revenue mix of 50 percent transportation, 40 percent grid, and 10 percent consumer, A123 provides advanced technology solutions at the cell, module and system levels.

Finally, there’s stealthy battery startup Amprius, who’ve raised $25 million and boast investors like Trident, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Stanford University. The firm is using a silicon nanostructure to replace a carbon anode system in batteries.

CEO Kang Sun claims that silicon has “an intrinsic energy density ten times higher than carbon.” He called Amprius “late science stage, early engineering stage” and noted that the firm’s technology is four times better than current technology.

As entrepreneurs and investors continue to focus on developing new battery technology, it’s not unreasonable to surmise that, one day, battery technology will play a major role in the clean energy economy.




gee your an asshole MS


Breakthrough Technology Could Lead to Battery-Powered Future – ecomagination

Re read the article, you idiot. Both HS and I have quoted the relevant part to explode your myth.

 

[Intense]

how far will big oil go to shut this down?

 

[Truthmatters]

there are other ways to charge batteries than oil.


they will NOT let this technology harm their oil interests.


if they can they will hold it back until they can use up the oil profits


that is what happens when ONLY profit matters