Ok. I was thinking of things like biodiesel. My understanding is that involves an esterfication process but I read about it 10 years ago and never took orgo. I

Ok. I was thinking of things like biodiesel. My understanding is that involves an esterfication process but I read about it 10 years ago and never took orgo. I accept esters are not alkanes my ignorance shows...thanks for correcting the record for other readers. I was using Li as shorthand for Litium Ion batteries which I assume contain salts or oxides or hydrides of lithium. I know it is not elemental lithium. My point was that H-C bonds contain more energy than whatever is in Li batteries in the charged state per mol.