Why We Still Don’t Have Better Batteries

[OKIsItJustMe]

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602245/why-we-still-dont-have-better-batteries/

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[font size=4]Startups with novel chemistries tend to falter before they reach full production.[/font]

by Richard Martin | August 29, 2016

[font size=3]Earlier this year, Ellen Williams, the director of ARPA-E, the U.S. Department of Energy’s advanced research program for alternative energy, made headlines when she told the Guardian newspaper that "We have reached some holy grails in batteries.”

Despite very promising results from the 75-odd energy-storage research projects that ARPA-E funds, however, the grail of compact, low-cost energy storage remains elusive.

A number of startups are closer to producing devices that are economical, safe, compact, and energy-dense enough to store energy at a cost of less than $100 a kilowatt-hour. Energy storage at that price would have a galvanic effect, overcoming the problem of powering a 24/7 grid with renewable energy that’s available only when the wind blows or the sun shines, and making electric vehicles lighter and less expensive.

But those batteries are not being commercialized at anywhere near the pace needed to hasten the shift from fossil fuels to renewables. Even Tesla CEO Elon Musk, hardly one to underplay the promise of new technology, has been forced to admit that, for now, the electric-car maker is engaged in a gradual slog of enhancements to its existing lithium-ion batteries, not a big leap forward.

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[Ford_Prefect]

1. Once we have batteries that work for cars and other modest devices, How will we move Large vehicles?

[nationalize the fed]

2. Wasserstoff und Brennstoffzelle

Wasserstoff ist das häufigste chemische Element in der Sonne und den großen Gasplaneten Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus und Neptun, die über 99,99 % der Masse des Sonnensystems in sich vereinen.



China Develops World's First Hydrogen-Powered Tram
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/china-develops-worlds-first-hydrogen-powered-tram/



Germany: Fuel cells to power regional trainsets

GERMANY: Alstom Transport hopes to have 40 fuel cell-powered regional trains in commercial service on regional lines in Germany by 2020 under an accord signed at the InnoTrans trade show in Berlin on September 24.
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/technology/single-view/view/fuel-cells-to-power-regional-trainsets.html

This is news to most Americans, many have no idea that Toyota has perfected a hydrogen powered car. Don't believe me, ask around.

Meanwhile, in Europe
https://www.youtube.com/user/H2FCHannover/videos

[Bill USA]

3. Jedoch die Kosten, um es auf die Erde zu bringen, wäre es unpraktisch als Kraftstoff machen.

[Bill USA]

4. Nissan develops new ethanol fuel cells to jump infrastructure hurdle & safer & cheaper than Hydrogen

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016165446

YOKOHAMA, Japan -- Nissan Motor Co. has developed a new kind of fuel cell drivetrain for cars that taps an onboard tank of ethanol instead of pressurized hydrogen, delivering a cheaper and safer ride that it says is more user friendly.

The new technology, dubbed an e-bio fuel cell, aims to combat a common hurdle to deploying traditional hydrogen fuel cell vehicles: the lack of a hydrogen fueling infrastructure. Nissan’s system uses bio-ethanol, derived from renewable crops such as corn or sugarcane, and that refueling infrastructure already largely exists.
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[nationalize the fed]

5. The Nissan SOFC car makes h2

SOFC Fuel Cells

[nationalize the fed]

6. H2 Trucks

Nikola Motor Company Announces U.S. and Canadian Class 8 Trucks Will Be Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered and 100% Emission Free

100% ZERO EMISSIONS
HYDROGEN POWERED
1,200 MILES RANGE
15 MINUTE REFILL TIME
NEVER PLUG IN
100% ELECTRIC DRIVE
THE END OF DIESEL ENGINES
1/2 THE OPERATING COST COMPARED TO DIESEL
2,000 FT. LBS TORQUE
1,000 HORSEPOWER
320 kWh BATTERY
1 MILLION MILES FREE* HYDROGEN FUEL
REGENERATIVE BRAKING
NO COMPETITION

https://nikolamotor.com/one

[Ford_Prefect]

7. Looks great in the pamphlet. Call us when they have a working prototype pulling 75,000 Lb trailers