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Old 03-04-2020, 08:07 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
Nobel Laureate,John Goodenough,of the University of Texas at Austin,(co-inventor of the Lithium -ion battery),announced in 2018,that he'd achieved a doubling of energy density for a non-combustible,solid-state, powdered-glass,non-cobalt, Lithium-ion battery.Some controversy.We'll see.
Thought they were claiming up to 10 times the capacity?

Here is a pretty good mansplanation as to why batteries as we know them can't hit 10× more capacity.
But 2 or maybe 3 times more capacity seems reasonable.

https://youtu.be/8RbwOhM6PUk
It would have to be radically different to get any where near 10× the capacity.

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