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Silicon “sandwiches” make for lightweight, high-capacity batteries
- prideout 6y agoI wonder why the researchers are more excited about space applications than electric cars.
- jaytaylor 6y agoAnother day, another far off promise of better battery tech ;) Always interesting to read and hear about it, and at the same time progress is frustratingly slow for what's available here in the real world.
- philipkglass 6y agoIt sounds like an implicit admission that it can deliver superior performance but is expected to be too expensive for large scale applications like electric vehicles. I prefer that over the hubris of press releases that say a battery recently demonstrated in the lab could change the whole world in 5-10 years.
- cestith 6y agoI'm a total lay person on this front, but I have an educated guess. Space is where the biggest monetary savings are gained by having a lighter battery. It's easier to offset the increased cost a young battery technology tends to have before economies of scale in manufacturing take over.
- morceauxdebois 6y agoIs the bar just really low for creating theoretically revolutionary battery technology?
- treeman79 6y agoResearch grants need justification. Shinny press release is a good start. Also when Working on a project with multi-decade timescales and low odds of success, you celebrate the wins you can.
- Gravityloss 6y agoThere are a lot of teams on this subject. And it's deemed newsworthy as well.