Submitted by fizzapop t3_yog5aj in Futurology
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fizzapop OP t1_ive2tvl wrote
A Brisbane company believe they can “change the face of Australia’s energy landscape”. Craig Nicol, the founder of the company believes it’s graphene aluminium ion battery was a “world-leading piece of technology” (which was developed by the university of Queensland).
sendokun t1_ive8mwb wrote
Anything with Graphene is not going to be changing any industry in this decade or the next.
It’s been over half a century, and we have not make much progress in actually making graphene production viable.
Few_Pineapple_4981 t1_ivenh6j wrote
Lithium ion was discovered in the 70s n didnt go into commercial production until 1991. These things take time. Also, theres plenty of graphene products available rn
sendokun t1_ivfps77 wrote
Yes graphed was discovered at the turn of the century, but as popular and highly coveted as it has been, not much progress has been made. Let’s take lithium ion, it was discovered and sit on the shelf for a long time. Once we realize it’s potential, we were able to cut the cost by 1000% in 10 years.
Glodraph t1_ivewusn wrote
Graphene has only a purity and price issue, nothing else.
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project_apex t1_ivenjnm wrote
I swear this exact same headline - except the location - is posted to this sub every 3 days.
FuturologyBot t1_ive4f10 wrote
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A Brisbane company believe they can “change the face of Australia’s energy landscape”. Craig Nicol, the founder of the company believes it’s graphene aluminium ion battery was a “world-leading piece of technology” (which was developed by the university of Queensland).
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and_dont_blink t1_ive78xb wrote
>Dr Dubal predicted that in 10 years' time, Australia could be exporting both raw lithium and graphene batteries.
Another day, another company with a laboratory-scale battery that goes nowhere. Too many of these run through their initial funding and then turn to the press, and then people read a headline then act like it's a solved issue. It isn't.
The issues are immense, from energy density to cost to scalability to materials. We've poured huge amounts of money for small incremental improvements, and those were hard-won improvements.
Over the next 10 years we'll be fortunate to really get to solid-state, liquid-flow, Li-O2, or even Sodium-Ion and even then it will be relatively incremental. We don't even have much on the horizon for something game-changing, because the issues are just that daunting.