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Can these Zinc-Air cells be recycled? Could you take a "used" Zinc-Air cell and process it somehow, to create a brand new Zinc-Air cell? If that works, then yo
by 1024core 2y ago
Can these Zinc-Air cells be recycled? Could you take a "used" Zinc-Air cell and process it somehow, to create a brand new Zinc-Air cell?
If that works, then you could just equip cars with swappable Zinc-Air cells: you go to a "Zinc Air" station and in the time it takes to fill up a tank of gas, your car gets a new Zinc Air cell and you're good to go for 1500 miles(?).
- gorkish 2y agoIf this is the model you want, there are easier materials. Iron/air isn't mass efficient, but it's an absolutely stupid simple material and energy cycle to implement. I personally believe iron/air batteries are an excellent candidate for industrial energy applications and large scale electric vehicles (trains, ships, heavy equipment, mining, shipping)
- throwaway81523 2y agoThere have been some articles about something like that, yet another revolutionary battery technology to never make it out of the lab. The idea was that the refill station would drain depleted sludge (electrolyte or whatever) out of the battery, add new sludge to replace it, and then somehow reprocess the depleted sludge that it had collected. I heard about that at least 20 years ago. Since then, nothing.