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Australia first to test new lithium-sulphur batteries

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Re: Australia first to test new lithium-sulphur batteries

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Four decisions to make on cookies before being able to read the article? Are you trying to break the internet?

I'd recommend using using "I don't care about cookies" and "Cookiebro" to restore your sanity. Basically you want to automatically accept all cookies, say yes to all cookie banners, then remove all cookies when you close the browser except the ones you explicitly want to keep (for staying logged into certain sites). Those two firefox extensions facilitate that.

Re: Australia first to test new lithium-sulphur batteries

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funny how I saw many posts about Amazon fires and while Australia is burning to the ground(which is showing to be much worse than Amazon fires), I can only see a post about some battery; this makes me question this website..

It’s Monash University, not a news website, so doesn’t seem odd to me.

Re: Australia first to test new lithium-sulphur batteries

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Sounds too good to be true! Did I read right? A fourfold increase in capacity with no downside? Going to production this year? How did I miss this until now?

Yes, definitely fourfold, shipping in 5 years!!1

Meanwhile Li-ion batteries were invented in seventies, it took 20 years to commercialization. First cells had 100W h/kg, and 30 years later we are slowly approaching 300W h/kg.

Re: Australia first to test new lithium-sulphur batteries

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Lithium-Sulphur has high energy per kilogram which makes it good for transportation. Also high energy per dollar to manufacture which makes it good for grid storage (where weight and size don't matter too much, but cost does).

At the nominal rate of 750 amp hours per kilogram for lithium-Sulphur is well above normal lithium-ion batteries. But compared to gasoline, it raises the bar from 1% vs gas, to 2%. Do I have that right?

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