Swiss Startup Innolith Claims 1000 Wh/Kg Battery Breakthrough
cleantechnica.com
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"We take the organic materials out and replace them with inorganic or basically salt-like materials, and that does two things for you. One is it gets rid of your fire risk,"
Isn't lithium the flammable bit? Am I missing something super important/obvious here?
"Greenshields says full production is probably 3 to 5 years away."
But surely they could provide a large demonstration battery?
Seriously, I'm tired of "revolutionary battery solves all the problems" articles without an actual tech demonstration verified by the reporter and a competent third party. These nonsense articles need to stop being published on HN.
They have:
"Pie in the sky? Heard it all before? Perhaps. The part that separates Innolith from all the others who claim to have invented the latest and greatest next new thing in battery storage technology is that is[sic] already has one of its batteries installed and operating [in Hagerstown, Maryland]"
Out of all the battery breakthrough news I read, I think this is the first time any were actually being put into use.
Rechargeable lithium ion batteries don't contain elemental lithium, and thus don't constitute a fire risk in that way.