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AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium (www.newscientist.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"His team built a working battery with this material, albeit with a lower conductivity than similar prototypes that use more lithium."

I do know that because of Ohm's law, this directly translates to less available current than conventional electrolytes. There's not enough info to determine mAh though.

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, batteries internal resistance is a huge factor in their usability and the speed they charge.

Especially in the modern day where a lot of their use is towards high amperage applications like cars.

People need to understand tho, Lithium batteries are usually only about 11% lithium, Lithium Ion batteries are mostly Cobalt and other metals. So at most you're replacing 6% of a batteries total mass.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Mostly cobalt is also not accurate. There's a small part of cobalt in some batteries.

Other like LiFePo are cobalt free.