Will Batteries Power The World? | The Limits Of Lithium-ion

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Can Batteries Power Everything? This video is about the physical and chemical limitations to electrolytic batteries, and how we might surpass the energy density and specific energy of lithium-ion batteries (like the Panasonic 18650 batteries used in the Tesla Model S, for example).

REFERENCES:

Lithium Fluorine Hydrogen NASA Rocket fuel test: https://archive.org/details/nasa\_techdoc\_19700018655

Limits on Cell Potential of Batteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro...

Lithium Ion Batteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium...\_battery

Standard Electrode Potential for Lithium, Lithium Graphite, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard\_electrode\_potential\_(data\_page)

Trends in Gravimetric Energy Density (Specific Energy): https://www.researchgate.net/figure/2...\_fig1\_Fig-3-Trend-of-capacity-and-energy-density-increase-in-18-650-cylindrical-type-Li-ion

Elon Musk/Telsa on why Lithium-ion is not exactly a lithium battery: http://benchmarkminerals.com/elon-mus...

Lithium Sulfur Problems: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...

https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...\_Lithium-sulfur\_batteries\_Problems\_and\_solutions

Supercapacitors: http://www.electronicdesign.com/power...

Panasonic 18650B Battery specs: https://na.industrial.panasonic.com/s...

Anker PowerCore+ 26800 disassembled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJS3m\_CGbeY

Types of Lithium Ion Batteries: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/ar...\_of\_lithium\_ion

Batteries & Electrochemical Cells on Hyperphysics: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/...

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