"Molecular docking" electrolytes improve lithium-ion batteries by making solvation and desolvation easier
https://www.chemistryviews.org/tuning-solvent-ion-interactions-for-more-efficient-batteries/
#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #chemiverse #research #Lithium_batteries #batteries
This part bears repeating, and a little louder for those in the back.
"So what do we have today by way of new policy? The latest “accomplishment” is the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). At its core, the IRA is a money-dump to EV, solar and wind capitalists under the guise of speeding up the transition to renewable energy. The IRA is designed to facilitate the continued growth of industrial civilization, albeit with a shift in industries. Electric cars. Solar. Wind. Batteries. These are all products for sale by industries seeking growth and profit.
The most basic truth about the IRA is that it is emphatically not an environmental policy. The IRA is not fascilitating a choice between clean energy and fossil fuels. It is not either/or. The IRA is both/and. The more energy that the IRA helps create, the more our industries will find energy-hungry ways to use it. The latest energy scourges, crypto and AI, make this truth obvious to the casual observer. And like all new energy before it, the new energy we are creating with renewables will be sucked into the black hole created by Jevons paradox.
Today’s “environmentalists” are no longer the environmentalists of my youth. They want wind, solar, nuclear, so that they can have lives as comfortable as those of their parents and grandparents. But whenever the choice between the environment and humanity’s continued malignant growth is on the line, today’s environmentalists choose growth over the environment. Their choice is nowhere more clear than the green delusion of renewable “wind energy.” "
"Wind power is not environmentalism. Wind power is making a choice between the environment and global industrial civilization and coming firmly down on the side of the latter.
Wind is the degredation of ecosystems. Wind is steel and iron and copper and concrete. Wind is oil lubricants produced by ExxonMobil. Wind is strip mining and massive water use. Wind is exploiting third-world labor, sometimes child labor. Wind is massive-scale production and shipping. Wind is wide access roads cut through once pristine landscapes. Wind is trucking and more trucking. Wind is forever plastics and toxic chemicals. Wind is new electricity infrastructure. Wind is the death of countless birds (and bats), including charismatic species like eagles, hawks and owls. Wind is flattening hilltops and clearcutting forests. Wind is off-shore abominations with unknown impacts on sea life and ocean ecosystems."
https://climatecasino.net/2024/06/this-is-grotesque/
Me again:
Wind and solar are just more capitalism with it's usual focus on continued growth and exploitation of the planet's resources.
Edit:
I'd accept some wind and solar, as long as it's put on existing buildings and/or already developed land.
Not only does this save/restore habitat, it puts the power of energy generation in ppl's hands, saving them from paying greedy Corp energy behemoths.
#wind
#solar
#ElectricVehicles
#Lithium_batteries
#ClimateCrisis
#EcoligicalOvershoot
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30 kWh battery blows up and takes down home with it
Experts are unable to investigate causes because of the high risk of collapse.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/10/30/cause-of-30-kwh-battery-explosion-in-germany-remains-unclear/
A lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery system recently exploded in a home in central Germany, preventing police and insurance investigators from entering due to the high risk of collapse. The explosion may have been preceded by off-gassing, but it remains unclear whether an external ignition source was the cause. Some scientists say thermal runaway may have triggered the blast.
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