• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The battery prototype demonstrated endurance, maintaining a stable structure and perfect reversibility over 6,000 cycles — equivalent to more than 16 years of daily operation — with zero loss in storage capacity.

    WTF!? If this battery is just half as good as they claim, it could be a game changer for storing power for solar and wind!

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      2 months ago

      Those are not the metrics that are important for storing wind and solar. Cost per MWh is the important one.

      It is great to see, and isn’t an unreasonable jump from lifepo4. They already do 4-6k charge cycles with something like 20% degradation. This is a bigger deal for electronics and vehicles as it would make battery replacements unnecessary.

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      2 months ago

      If all of the claims from Chinese tech companies and research was half as good as they claim we would all learn Mandarin by now.

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        2 months ago

        That is exactly right, and simplified Chinese is actually extremely popular to learn here now. (Denmark)
        And no wonder, they have become leaders of several key (future) technologies.

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          2 months ago

          Counter point: I know exactly one person who learned Mandarin and several dozen who don‘t. Pretty much everyone learned english and (to a lesser degree) a third language that isn‘t Mandarin either. French, Spanish and Japanese are popular, though.

      • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        Have you heard of a man named Elon Musk? He’s the king of over promising. US company’s put out just as much garbage “look we solved X” as China dude.

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          2 months ago

          Classic Fediverse. Can‘t have China critique without the token whataboutism response.

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      2 months ago

      IF is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting there.

      And yes IF it is as you said HALF that good, in either direction— the article mentioned ~80% under heavy loads. And that alone would be a game changer.

      Energy storage is the “oil” of the future.

      IF — we shall see. But I’m hopeful

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    2 months ago

    The title is misleading.

    “Throughout this period, the system remained free of harmful by-products or sediment while achieving a 99.4 percent leak-proof efficiency. Even at high power outputs, it retained 78.5 percent of its energy efficiency, proving that the design is both reliable and durable.”

    99.4% leak proof against material transitioning within the membranes.

    78.5% energy output efficiency.

    And as others have said no useful metrics tbh.

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    2 months ago

    Why is there never a single relevant metric mentioned? Here its only cycles and efficiency (which I assume is capacity).