IBM's new battery, we hope!

Just down the road from you Bill. We did live next to Almaden valley in south San Jose where this IBM R & D site is. Would be really great for electric flight also with the power density. Crossing fingers!
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/01/06/ibm-research-sustainable-battery-sea-water/
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/01/06/ibm-research-sustainable-battery-sea-water/
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When you think of how they mine the lithium now out of the Congo, with guys breathing the dust, it could be an improvement just for that. Let alone an electrolyte that can go from 0 Soc to 80 in 5 minutes.
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Current lithium is not sustainable and I doubt AGM will ever fill its niche weight wise.
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I tried to get solid information from them early on, but they couldn't answer basic stuff. I gave it another 6 months then tried again and was met with sales fluff about the genius of their founder. I walked away from the smoke and mirrors.
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/01/06/ibm-research-sustainable-battery-sea-water/
It is about a patent that IBM has to extract lithium from salt water.
Aquion that failed is,
The Aquion battery is composed of a saltwater electrolyte, manganese oxide cathode, carbon titanium phosphate composite anode, and synthetic cotton separator.
It had a major downside of expensive metals and could not keep up with lithium pricewise. It is as expensive to recycle as is Lithium with all the metals.
The IBM pipedream in the link will solve many problems, if it can be done reasonably.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#cite_note-kamienski-18 For some reason unable to copy and paste the seawater specific data. Appears that electrolysis is used to isolate the lithium ions.
They may enjoy some government backing. Big Bother always being eager for more weapons grade minerals. The first nuclear reaction (1932) used lithium among other refined minerals and technologies. Come to think of it, our largest industry - pharma - would also like lithium. It can be refined into a lot of medical uses.
Combine storage technology, pharma, and defense? Unlimited funding. Sweet technology.
The point here is that Lithium is almost entirely mined (on land) in the the Congo and it is nasty business done by alot of very poor people that may be easy to take advantage of. It also is a pain in the ass and expensive to properly recycle. Not even going into the good parts of the IBM claim and research as it early.
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Going out on a limb and thinking perhaps lithium based energy could be used for rockets so fast they could catch up to ICBN's and detonate them prior to descent.
Lithium electrolysis mining is likely very expensive unless conducted on a huge scale. If they can extract lithium then why not gold? I remember getting some whos excited when I casually mentioned that seawater has gold.
Going to guess that consumer based results are years away. Also - I am prone to "excessive" theorizing. Got a question? May have a theory for dat.
I have tried to recycle 2 big LG lithiums and one cost me $300 and I really am not sure what they did with it. Recycling in general is a disaster here in the land of the greenies. You can blame China but really it is the people behind the mirror here in Fornia. The company Waste Management has these "dumps" in the middle of nowhere where alot of it goes and just sits there.
The early failures with lithium I saw were related to high charge or discharge currents on master slave XW's. That is why I am hopeful for the IBM r&d. Their high currents ( AGM like) seem more long lasting. Dirty little secrets about lithium failures in home batteries are out there. I have some test results from my buds is Australia, it is not good BTW.
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Cobalt is used in the higher performance lithium batteries. It is quite expensive.
Though Zimbabwe is a big lithium player and Namibia is ~#8 (don't know where that is?).
I'd do the research but I'm arguing other important stuff at the moment.
I used the wrong word in a previous and meant Cobalt that is used in many NMC lithium car batteries and by hobbyist. Dangerous to recycle unless you just store it somewhere out of harm's way. It can cause a deadly gas if burned.
What is more important softdown? Are you getting gold out of those mountains? Come-on tell us.
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IBM labs south of San Jose in the Almaden Valley of California.
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/12/heavy-metal-free-battery/
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Recyclable and safe is one of the main points of this IBM R&D in this thread, we hope.
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