A couple of interesting videos I ran across recently
This first is interesting but probably faces limited use cases, the second can make an interesting grid scale alternative to massive lithium ion battery facilities and things like pumped hydro, but the fourth is quite possibly the most immediately exciting even if I suspect it will only be in high end devices for the first few years seeing as how there's at the moment only one company I'm aware of that has actually announced near term plans to ship anything.
- Aluminum-Air batteries, could give your EV a 1000 mile range with one teensy (big) drawback. While they'd be very recyclable they aren't rechargeable.
- Meanwhile, Iron-Air batteries wouldn't back quite as much punch but are rechargeable
- Solid State Batteries go from, "We'll get those out of the lab in a few years," to a Japanese battery and super capacitor company announcing plans to begin shipments of small solid state batteries in a few months.
This first is interesting but probably faces limited use cases, the second can make an interesting grid scale alternative to massive lithium ion battery facilities and things like pumped hydro, but the fourth is quite possibly the most immediately exciting even if I suspect it will only be in high end devices for the first few years seeing as how there's at the moment only one company I'm aware of that has actually announced near term plans to ship anything.
Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.