"Think again, Jimmy. You see the firing pin in your gun was made out of, yep, zinc."
Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost
Submitted 9 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/06/1079123/zinc-batteries-boost-eos/
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Ertebolle@kbin.social 9 months ago
theDodosConundrum@lemm.ee 9 months ago
“Come back, zinc! Come back!”
Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No. Move to bio-based supercapacitors that uses biopolymers.
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No, move to naquadah reactors that use goa’uld metamaterials
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Eli5? Don’t zinc batteries suck compared to lithium?
marsokod@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It depends on what you value. For performance and power density, nothing really beats lithium at the moment.
However, for grid-scale battery these parameters are not necessarily very important. What matters most is cost over the lifetime, and that’s wher zinc batteries could be useful. They have the potential to be much cheaper than the cheapest lithium batteries.
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They do. They are just looking for cheap way to store energy. They don’t care if battery are big, heavy and less efficient, they need something as cheap as possible for a range of use cases where cost is important.
Lithium is expensive. My bet is that, on the long term, sodium will be used for such use cases. But in practice decision must account for practical limitations, primarily supply chain
Gto@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Looks promising, but not soon, I think.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
electric car problem solved?
NotMyOldRedditName@kbin.social 9 months ago
Energy density on these are woefully inadequate for cars, but that doesn't matter for stationary storage which is what this is for.
painfulasterisk@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m more interested in how they will troubleshoot and perform preventative maintenance to the battery, since halides are quite toxic.
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