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Originally Posted by redpoint5
My intention isn't to single you out Ladogaboy, but I often hear that energy density isn't good enough with current battery technology, but the future will bring stuff. Do we have reason to believe there is yet undiscovered chemistry to support this notion of better batteries?
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More than likely, these improvements will come through nanotechnology used to construct the batteries. Even without the advent of new materials, new construction methods have shown promise of as much as a 10-fold increase in energy density. I read a recent article regarding major gains in the energy storage of Li batteries by doing nothing more than boring microscopic holes in the Li. Not only did the amount of energy that could be stored increase, but also the rate at which the battery could accept a charge. The only drawback was that the batteries could only cycle through about 100 charges before seeing a drastic reduction in storage capabilities.
I don't have the research and articles bookmarked (and it's bedtime), but I'll try to scrounge up what I've found on the subject later.