With calcium 2,500 times more abundant than lithium, battery offers viable option with theoretically comparable energy density, Fudan University scientists say in paper for Nature.
There is a lot of science happening but adoption will never happen overnight. There’s many potential alternative chemistries but they need time and money to mature. Lithium batteries took decades to mature. Calcium and sodium batteries definitely don’t match “never hear about again”.
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THEM CHINESE IS COMIN’ FOR OUR BONES!
Mr skeltal will save us.
Doot doot.
link to the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45347-3
Thanks - that’s actually helpful!
Soon: “We gotta ban these calcium batteries to protect the innocent lithium companies!”
China is producing cheaper and safer batteries, but at what cost!
Oh cool another magical battery technology that we will never hear about again
There is a lot of science happening but adoption will never happen overnight. There’s many potential alternative chemistries but they need time and money to mature. Lithium batteries took decades to mature. Calcium and sodium batteries definitely don’t match “never hear about again”.
At this point they’ve shat the bed so many times i’d call for peer review if they said the sky was blue
Edit: loool truth hurts tankies
Nature is a peer-reviewed journal. One of the most well-known, in fact.