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Swiss Startup Innolith Claims 1000 Wh/Kg Battery Breakthrough
- olliej 7y agoI have questions: "We take the organic materials out and replace them with inorganic or basically salt-like materials, and that does two things for you. One is it gets rid of your fire risk," Isn't lithium the flammable bit? Am I missing something super important/obvious here? "Greenshields says full production is probably 3 to 5 years away." But surely they could provide a large demonstration battery? Seriously, I'm tired of "revolutionary battery solves all the problems" articles without an actual tech demonstration verified by the reporter and a competent third party. These nonsense articles need to stop being published on HN.
- gvb 7y ago> But surely they could provide a large demonstration battery? They have: "Pie in the sky? Heard it all before? Perhaps. The part that separates Innolith from all the others who claim to have invented the latest and greatest next new thing in battery storage technology is that is[sic] already has one of its batteries installed and operating [in Hagerstown, Maryland]"
- ksec 7y agoSo they are basically in Real World testing already? Out of all the battery breakthrough news I read, I think this is the first time any were actually being put into use.
- Obi_Juan_Kenobi 7y agoThe danger comes from the organic solvent electrolyte. Rechargeable lithium ion batteries don't contain elemental lithium, and thus don't constitute a fire risk in that way.
- tinus_hn 7y agoRegardless of materials batteries store large amounts of energy that are dangerous when released in an uncontrolled fashion. That’s what they do.