I have been watching battery technology for decades, and the Graphene battery has moved from the lab, to the manufacturing line! It has a higher watt density than the LiIon battery, charges Much faster, will not self ignite, and uses no expensive rare earth elements in it's chemistry.
It can be manufactured in a LiIon battery plant, as the technology begins to take up the market. It has 3 times as much power as the LiIon, which has had the higest power storage for a decade.
you've been watching the battery technology for decades? that sounds like a boring job but I guess some one needs to do it.
this is exciting though and will make some great improvements in dang near everything. is the Lilon like lithium batteries? I don't know my batteries I confess, it was too boring for me to watch all those years.
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I am a tech junkie, sorry. Batteries keep moving to higher watt densities so smaller batteries can do more work. They began with NiCads, moved to NiMH, and then to LiIon. This Graphene battery is next in the cue, but it is a Large jump and not an incremental gain like the crystalized LiIon. Since it uses non toxic carbon elements (the graphene) Instead of lithium; it will be a lot cheaper, once production ramps up. It also does NOT have the problem the LiIon does of self sustaining combustion (they provide their own oxydizer, and can Not be extinguished).
I have been buying dead laptop battery packs, and salvaging the good 18650 (18mm dia 650mm long) batteries from them for several years. they will supply about 10 watts for 40 some years, so I intend to stack enough of them to run my entire house. I will need 21000 watts to begin, I have a little over 7000 watts now.
The advantage of this post, is when these cells become cost effective, they will be the same 18650 size (they can be manufactured on the same production equipment), only they will be 30+ watts per cell they will drop into the same battery sticks; and upgrade me to 63000 watts of power storage.
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well..you probably get tired of hearing this but that's kinda brilliant. what's the boss think(your wife of course)? does she like the idea?
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It will run her AC unit, so she is in favor! I have found some ultra high efficiency minisplit systems, that use 900 watts to both heat, and cool. I will need two (each does 700 square feet). I already have the 24 volt inverters to run them both on 220 vac. During the day, when it is the hottest, they can run directly from the solar panels.
The power company is becoming less and less reliable, since adding the "smart meters"; and lead acid batteries have a very limited life span. A piece of water pipe cut to the right length, will give me a 60 watt, 24 volt battery. I will parallel over 300 of these batteries to store power for my housse. They will be dropped into fluid in a 5 gallon bucket, through holes in the lid; and buried in the crawl space, for heat disapation, and auto-ignition safety.
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Since writing this, my power was down, on a clear day without wind, for over an hour. We are rapidly approaching third world status on our power grid! :(
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@smithlabs this is amazing, how'd you learn all this?
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Well, I get a trade magazine on Batteries every month. I have studies heating and cooling for over three decades; and I helped build one of the first geo-thermal heat pumps in 1979.
Not new thought processes for me, LOL!
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of course. who doesn't subscribe to a battery magazine! lol
I didn't know there was such a thing. the first geo-thermal heat pump yawhser!
hey can those be put anywhere? you can heat off grid with them?
hey how long before these fantastic new batteries get on the market?
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Trade magazines come for free to engineers; in the hopes that I will design in soem of their advertised products. I get a bunch of them (light reading, LOL).
I don't know if we were the first, but the feds did come to look at it! We got an efficienccy reting of 7.5, when the best on the market were running bairly 3. Thatprogram got a LOT of donations, shortly after that! The unit I am looking at for the new land, is running an efficiency rating of 22, so a lot has changed.
:)Yes they can heat and cool a house off grid. I did a post yesterday on that. Look at the post on the Earth Battery.
The link is an Amazon for sale link. They are WAY too expensive right now, but will come down a LOT, once they work out the business model.
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