Lithium-air battery technology breakthrough

I hope this "game changer" ends up better than our "game changer" is...

Go Gators, beat Tennessee!

 

Does this mean it works in super cold environments like Antarctica without the need for heating? Or cooling in places like the Mojave desert?

 

Would you say that these new Lithium air batteries are solid state... and that they do NOT need heating and cooling?

 

I am no expert on battery technologies but I do see patterns. Batteries seem to be on an improvement cycle that isn’t much slower than Moores law. I don’t know enough to say when or what the next game changer will be but I do know it’s not that far off.

 

Toyota thinks they have it and they’re not usually prone to exaggeration. I’m looking forward to whatever they come out with on the battery front. Unfortunately their first non-compliance car foray into EVs was horrendous with the BZ4X.

 

I guess there is no company behind this, it's a university project?

 

Norway announces the discovery of a phosphate deposit that could supply global needs for the next 50 years, as they try to one-up the U.S.

Actually, it might be a good synergy with the U.S. lithium discovery.

Mining company makes ‘significant’ discovery that could change our cars forever: ‘When you find something of that magnitude …’

 

The Battery Show 2023

 

The batteries in 20 years from now will be 10 times better than the ones we make today... good news.

 

I don’t know if this was posted elsewhere.

20-40 Million “Goldmine” Of Lithium Found In The U.S. And Could Completely Change The EV Battery Game

This new study estimates that the McDermitt Caldera, a volcanic crater between Nevada and Oregon, might be home to 20-40 million metric tons of the substance.

Right now the largest known deposit, located in Bolivia’s salt flats, is about 23 million tons.

 

There's plenty of lithium In NV, it's mostly in sedimentary claystone deposits. Companies are claiming to have economical extraction mechanisms, but nothing is to scale yet.

 

IIRC excitement in addition to the amount of the find is that coat substrate is mush easier to mine and without the deleterious impacts to the environment in existing mines. Nothing is to scale yet because it hasn’t been found before. Nothing to suggest it can’t be scaled quickly. I believe the local NA reservation need to get paid first though..

 

Absolutely. This will have far less impact than evaporative extraction, or hard rock extraction, and also shows promise of being more economical than either of those traditional methods.

There are huge claystone deposits in the southern part of the state as well, near the old mining town of Tonopah. No competing interests like thacker pass has to deal with. DOE is handing out matching grants to spur this into existence.

 

That is the multi-million dollar question... foreign miners have deep pockets, so to do the Chinese.

 

Good news for lithium battery enthusiasts! Battery fires are only up 388% since 2015. Not too shabby. The article comes with an uplifting video of a lithium battery catching fire on an airplane. In case the cabin lighting fails, you can always hope for a lithium battery fire to light up the plane. The smoke just adds to the ambiance--it gives the flight a 1970's jazz bar-vibe.

Lithium battery fires on U.S. flights rise, FAA data shows

 

There's one in Arkansas too. It seems that we might just be flush with Lithium in our country.

A Giant Hidden Source of Lithium Was Just Discovered in Arkansas