Nevada approves $105M in tax incentives for battery plant
By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America
https://www.power-eng.com/ap-news/nevada-approves-105m-in-tax-incentives-for-battery-storage-plant/
#news, #energy, #batteries, #ap, #storage
#batteries
NanoGraf Technologies claims it has developed the highest energy-density cylindrical 18650 Lithium-ion cell in the world, with an energy-density of 810 Wh/L (4.0Ah capacity).
"Ampere hours (Ah) is the amount of energy charge in a battery that enables 1 ampere of current to flow for one hour."
"In 2021, NanoGraf announced it had developed the world's longest-running 3.8Ah 18650 cylindrical lithium-ion cell, at 800Wh/L, so this latest version reflects an improvement."
The battery is something called a silicon-anode cell. "A silicon anode battery is a type of lithium-ion battery where the anode is replaced by silicon nanotubes or silicon coating."
They never say what Wh/L stands for. Watt-hours per liter? Ok, so, you all know your metric units, right? Watts are a unit of power, watt-hours are a unit of energy, liters are a unit of volume, so watt-hours per liter is energy per unit volume, or energy density. So it makes sense.
Who uses this type of battery? Tesla? Brrrrrp! I tracked down the original press release (from May of this year) and it says NanoGraf Technologies sells this battery to the military.
NanoGraf's Li-ion 18650 battery achieves a new energy-density milestone
Pourquoi la #voiture #électrique n'est pas la solution miracle pour se déplacer sans polluer
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/meteo/climat/pourquoi-la-voiture-electrique-n-est-pas-la-solution-miracle-pour-se-deplacer-sans-polluer_5425306.html
Tout cela est du #capitalisme, créer un nouveaux marchés. Et on est bien loin de quelque chose d'écologique.
En même temps, #Macron le met en avant, donc on sait que ce n'est pas pour l' #Écologie.
Autant dire de suite que de multiplier les vélos électriques ne fera rien de plus que de rajouter de la pression sur les #Électricité #ressources en #métaux rares, #Cobalt, #Nickel, #Manganèse, #Lithium... Les #batteries donc...
Un #VAE actuel, c'est le #Solex de mon grand-père... Ben du temps de mon grand-père, on faisait encore la différence entre un #vélomoteur comme le Solex et un #vélo... Bizarrement aujourd'hui, on n'en est plus capable... Bizarre, vous avez dit bizarre ? ....
“As those #batteries #corrode, #fires #start. That’s a new challenge that our firefighters haven’t faced before.”
Firefighters in #Florida are dealing with a new challenge in the wake of #HurricaneIan—waterlogged #ElectricVehicle batteries erupting in flames. https://www.theepochtimes.com/floridas-top-fire-marshal-warns-tons-of-waterlogged-electric-vehicles-catching-on-fire-after-hurricane-ian_4781135.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=minds
Florida's Top Fire Marshal Warns 'Tons' of Waterlogged #Electric #Vehicles Catching #Fire After Hurricane Ian
Monitoring Battery ‘Time To Go’ on Solar Systems or Inverter Systems (How to Calculate and Display)
In this video I (try to) explain how I used battery current readings and the battery state of charge, to display gauges on my Home Assistant dashboard showing the amount of battery time left based on the current inverter load. It adjusts as the battery level (SoC) drops and as the loads change.
But it was not all plain sailing as some oddities arose which needed to be accounted for, and I also expand on these. Two issues I had were to estimate time left when the battery is actually charging, and also how to deal with very small loads that show unrealistically long projection times.
As I explain in the wrap up, even if you have a plain battery inverter or other device that does not have the MQTT protocol, or have Modbus registers that can supply this information, there are other innovative ways of reading loads, voltages, and currents that may also work for you. So this video need not only be for those using Victron or similar solar systems.
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iTQG_xw0Zs
#technology #batteries #timetogo #solarsystem #homeassistant
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Flippin computers...
Spent all yesterday afternoon sorting out my take over of my son's abandoned MSi CRX 2QD laptop.
Finally got it running Linux Mint 21 after much playing around with the BIOS. Now the only issue is to remove the knackered "non-removable battery".
In fact, I believe it to be eminently removable once I can get the case off the bottom. The problem being that, when I remove the DVD drive, there are 3 hidden screws that I have no screwdriver small enough to fit. A trip to the computer shop looms...
Have I ever said how much I hate inbuilt and so called "non removable batteries". In fact I have, albeit in relation to phones. Yet another example of profiteering by trying to get us to dispose of hardware when something simple wears out.
I will not be replacing this battery. Just run the bloomin' thing off the mains.
Once that is sorted, the next step will be to try an alternative lightweight distro on my little Acer Aspire 1410 with its tiny processor and 3GB RAM. Thinking of experimenting with Bodhi.
Climate change: 'Sand battery' could solve green energy's big problem #SandBattery #Batteries #green #GreenEnergy #Finland
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61996520
Future batteries, coming soon: Charge in seconds, last months and power over the air | Pocket-lint
While it may be some time before we get a week's life out of our phones, development is progressing well. We've collected all the best battery discoveries that could be with us soon, from over the air charging to super-fast 30-second re-charging. Hopefully, you'll be seeing this tech in your gadgets soon.
Hydrovolt, The Largest Battery Recycling Facility In Europe, Begins Operations – Where There Is An Economic Demand, Then Industry Supplies It
Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt and Norwegian aluminium supplier Hydro are partners in Hydrovolt, a joint venture which has constructed the largest battery recycling facility in Europe. Located in Fredrikstad in southern Norway, the Hydrovolt factory is now in commercial operation and expects to recycle 12,000 tons of depleted batteries a year initially, rising to 70,000 tons by 2025 and 300,000 tons by 2030. 12,000 tons is enough to handle all depleted batteries from electric vehicles on the road in Norway today.
The fully automated Hydrovolt recycling process allows up to 95% of materials to be recovered from batteries that have reached the end of their useful service life. We’ve seen exactly the same sort of industry arising in the USA for end-of-life Tesla batteries.
#environment #EV #batteries #Norway
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Tesla’s Recycled Batteries: Almost 92% Reuse Of Raw Materials
Tesla’s recycled batteries have provided almost 92% of their original raw materials back to Tesla for future use, according to new information in Tesla’s 2021 Impact Report. Tesla’s factories are already using an in-house, closed-loop recycling system. This allows for all of Tesla’s batteries that it receives to be recycled with up to 92% of the raw materials being used again.
Tesla also shared some details about its battery chemistry, noting that lithium only accounts for around 1.5% of the full battery pack weight. Tesla’s iron phosphate battery packs have neither any cobalt nor nickel.
What’s probably most important though, is that these matters are being focused on, measured, and reported. That’s how improvements are gauged and achieved.
See https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/08/teslas-recycled-batteries-almost-92-reuse-of-raw-materials/
#technology #environment #batteries #tesla #recycling
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Group14’s Silicon-Lithium EV Batteries Deliver Next-Level Performance, having solved the previous Silicon anodes expansion issue
Group14’s flagship product is a silicon-carbon powder marketed under the trademarked name SCC55
, and they are not shy about listing the advantages.
“SCC55 has five times the capacity and affords up to 50% more energy density than conventional graphite for Lithium battery anodes,” Group14 states. “Its unique hard carbon-based scaffolding keeps silicon in the most ideal form — amorphous, nano-sized, and carbon-encased. The result is the best-in-class anode material that exhibits outstanding first cycle efficiency and long life upon Li-ion battery cycling.” Group14 emphasizes that its technology is based on abundant and “non-exotic” materials.
The point has always been that when lost of money is thrown into research, over time the results will bear fruit. We can expect to see many more improvements by others in battery design as well as manufacturing.
#technology #EV #batteries #greentech #SCC55 #environment
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Batteries are the new oil — The race to dominate the new battery economy
Although it’s a US-centric article, it is actually relevant globally. Oil will not disappear in the short to medium term, but its strategic significance will wane over time. With that, comes a shift in power, as the economic balances tip away from a few oil producing countries, to often other countries which have the raw materials and production capabilities for producing batteries.
Over the next decade, Morgan Stanley analysts forecast the “balkanization” of the battery industry as governments and regions race to establish their own secure supplies of battery manufacturing capacity and key raw materials.
But we all know one of the environmental issues with batteries is also the extraction of rare Earth minerals for current battery design. So the potential shift in power is probably more short to medium term towards countries with the rare Earth minerals (and let’s hope not wars too). New battery design is looking at more environmentally friendly raw materials, and progress is already being made on this front, which, in my opinion, may mean the raw materials’ aspect at least may not be concentrated amongst just a few new countries. Production efficiency and capability will no doubt be the longer term factor at play.
#technology #environment #EV #batteries #economics
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A camera battery with a USB-C port is a gadget whose time has come – Glad 3rd parties are helping bust proprietary vendor lock-ins
The Nitecore UFZ100 camera battery is here to release photographers from Sony’s proprietary grasp — a built-in USB-C charging port lets you power it up using the same hardware as many of your other devices. It hasn’t been officially released yet, but you can use the battery with the Sony A7 III, A7R III, A7R IV, A7S III, A9 (ILCE-9), A9 II, A6600, A7C, A1, FX3, and A7 IV, saving you from lugging around a separate charger if you want to bring along (and charge) an extra battery on a shoot.
Reliability and price have not been made known yet though. So yes there may be some trade-offs as certainly the capacity is slightly less, with a longer charging time.
See https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/19/23031768/nitecore-sony-camera-ufz100-battery-usb-c
#technology #vendorlockin #batteries #sony #photography
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Theion’s Sulphur Battery Technology Could Make Electric Cars Go Three Times Further By 2024 with no Rare Earth minerals
Sulphur is the tenth most abundant element on Earth, and local sources are usually available in any chosen location in the world. There is no nickel, no manganese, no cobalt, and they replace the current collective folds of copper and aluminium with graphene, so they have also no aluminium and no copper in their cells either. The only things they have in their cells are lithium metal foil, sulphur, and carbon. To make this technology work, the sulphur must be melted to form crystals, but this is only 112C (235F).
Ehmes claims Theion’s technology will radically increase both gravimetric and volumetric density, so that its batteries either take up less weight and space for the same capacity, or you can have much more capacity for the same weight. Theion’s Gen 4 battery, due in 2025, will have a slightly lower gravimetric density of 900Wh/kg, but a higher volumetric one of 1,500Wh/liter – so it would take just over a quarter of the space of a Tesla Model 3 Long Range battery. Theion is also promising 2,000 charge-discharge cycles for its Gen 3 and 4 technologies, which is above the 1,000-1,500 cycles of current Lithium-Ion cells.
Unfortunately, Theion isn’t initially going to be delivering its technologies to the EV industry. “We’re currently talking to the space industry,” says Ehmes. “We will hand over the R&D surplus to the air taxi next. Then mobile devices like handhelds, laptops, mobile phones, and wearables.” But EVs are definitely on the roadmap for Theion, and production has been designed to scale up to the quantities required by electric cars.
#technology #environment #batteries #EV
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Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back To Phones If The EU Gets Its Way… Apple Will Tell Us This Is Bad For Us
Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could open to pull it out and replace it if need be. Whether it was a radio, a cordless phone, or a cellphone, it was a cinch to swap out a battery.
These days, many devices hide their batteries, deep beneath tamper-proof stickers and warnings that state there are “no user serviceable components inside.” The EU wants to change all that, though, and has voted to mandate that everything from cellphones to e-bikes must have easily replaceable batteries, with the legislation coming into effect as soon as 2024.
Many phone batteries are designed to be non-replacaeble from the factory. Thus, when they swell up or fail, they can damage the whole phone rather than merely popping off a removable panel.
I remember the early Samsung phones had a rubber gasket on the battery cover to also help keep water out. Point is most people’s phones don’t get taken swimming, but the first thing normally to fail on a very very expensive phone, is the battery. I anyway have always taken out all-risk insurance on every phone and tablet I’ve bought (which excludes failed batteries). Personally, I’d be happy to see replaceable batteries again, as I have still not forgotten my Nexus 6P battery failure which turned my phone into an expensive brick. And of course this is not just about phones, and also includes rechargeable toothbrushes and other devices, which is better for the environment.
#technology #EU #batteries #environment
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