New batteries news

[Skvez]

Liquid Metal batteries might be a notable technology improvement unfortunately no units are given to assess this new technology.

Ideally we'd want to see kWh/Litre, kWh/m^3, cycle efficiency (electricity to battery power and back to electricity again) and cycle life to compare with something like LiPo (Lithium Polymer).

Splitting water into Hydrogen and Oxygen and then burning the Hydrogen is not very cycle efficient (by present technology) but it's still better than throwing excess power away.

Nuclear Fusion is still a big lab experiment, it's not been sustained for a useful amount of time and still requires more energy into the containment electromagnets than is extracted.