Solid state battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles

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Solid state battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles::Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times—more than any other pouch ...

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Before people jump in here to talk about how battery technology never comes to market... Every single one of these discoveries teaches us something new, sometimes it reveals tech that's unsustainable, sometimes it's un-manufacturable, but it always gives us another direction to look for things.

Tech goes relatively slowly from lab results to store shelves, so stuff you read about 10-20 years ago are what are in your devices today. This could very easily be the way that your phone runs in 2035.

This could be as game changing as lithium ion was back in the early 2000's, or it could go the way of most lab results. We won't know until we keep poking at it and figuring out what it is useful for.

Sure of course, and this was a good article, but I think it's absolutely right to ream pop tech rags that pick these data up and make it sound like the battery revolution is right around the corner. It is important to couch this stuff in the fact that battery tech is operating on what appear to be fairly narrow margins and that reliable gains in efficiency are not likely within arms reach. There is an ocean of battery research and very little of it results in marketable changes without dozens of other breakthroughs needed to be made to make the new finds feasible. Curbed enthusiasm is appropriate in this field not journalistic tech hyperbole.

sometimes it reveals tech that's unsustainable, sometimes it's un-manufacturable,

Which sustainability and manufacturability are going through their own development. So what was once unsustainable or un-manufacturable, suddenly become one or both with no additional progress in that area.

All in all I love that battery tech is getting the attention it is.