Enlarge / Aerial view of a dirt road leading up through The Thacker Pass Lithium mining area in the arid Nevada desert. reader comments 131 with 0 posters participating Share this story Construction will reportedly soon begin on a mine that’s expected to become the United States’ largest source of lithium. This mine is viewed ..
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reader comments 54 with 0 posters participating Share this story Current lithium-based batteries are based on intercalation—lithium ions squeeze into spaces within electrode materials such as graphite. As a result, most of the battery’s volume and bulk is dedicated to things that don’t contribute to carrying charges between the electrodes, which sets a limit on ..
reader comments 92 with 52 posters participating Share this story In the world of renewables, lithium-ion batteries are storage kings, making up around 70 percent of electric vehicle (EV) and 90 percent of grid batteries around the globe. As such, they’re becoming increasingly important in a world that’s trying to reduce its carbon emissions by ..
Enlarge / A customs officer inspects imported lithium carbonate at Longwu Branch Terminal of Shanghai İnternational Port Co., Ltd. reader comments 92 with 62 posters participating Share this story The industrial port of Kwinana on Australia’s western coast is a microcosm of the global energy industry. From 1955, it was home to one of the ..
Enlarge / Ordered rock crystals, courtesy of a salt mine. reader comments 37 with 24 posters participating, including story author Share this story Better batteries are a critical enabling technology for everything from your gadgets all the way up to the stability of an increasingly renewable grid. But most of the obvious ways of squeezing ..
Monash University Associate Professor Matthew Hill, Dr. Mahdokht Shaibani, and Professor Mainak Majumder with the lithium-sulphur battery design. Monash University reader comments 75 with 55 posters participating, including story author Share this story The name “lithium-ion battery” seems to imply that lithium is the essential ingredient that dictates the battery’s performance characteristics. But that’s less ..
Enlarge / A used lithium-ion electric vehicle battery sits at the 4R Energy Corporation Namie factory in Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, Mar. 26, 2018. reader comments 64 with 42 posters participating Share this story Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts that there will be 559 million electric vehicles on the road by 2040. ..
Enlarge / A general view of Laguna Colorada located near the border with Chile, in the Uyuni salt flats, Bolivia. The Uyuni salt flats are estimated to contain 100 million tons of lithium, making it one of the largest global reserves of this mineral, according to state officials at the Bolivian Mining Corporation. (credit: MARTIN ..
Enlarge / The Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL) headquarters and manufacturing complex is reflected in a mudflat in Ningde, Fujian Province, China, in January 2018. CATL already sells the most batteries to the biggest electric-vehicle makers in the biggest EV market: China. (credit: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images) A Chinese battery company called Contemporary Amperex ..
reader comments 75 Share this story Enlarge / These photos show dendrites after pulses of different current densities are applied, from lowest density at the top to highest at the bottom. Dendrites—branching structures that look like tree limbs—are fun to draw and good on neurons, but they’re generally best avoided in lithium-ion batteries. As ions ..