Comment on Water-based battery "safe, efficient, non-toxic"

• abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This sounds like it’s worth the hype to me. It has about the same energy density as lithium-ion, and it uses non-toxic and abundantly available materials (unlike lithium-ion).

  The cycle count is a little poor but it’s also about the same as lithium ion and it’s much less of an issue if the batteries are non-toxic and cheap.

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  • batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d say worth discussing but none of these articles are ever “hype” worthy. Its really cool to know about, and should point to a brighter future, but there are always gremlins in this kind of thing. Even fuel cells, which have a deserved reputation on WAY over hyping early, helped lay the groundwork for a lot of manufacturing infrastructure and technical know how that laid the work for a lot of the battery boom we saw and continue to see.

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