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Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 was enacted and designed to suppress any new technology like this that had the potential to be destructive to any existing large industry.
Would you be in favor of invoking this law to protect the fossil fuel industry?
lithium IS a metal. it may be compounded with another material to stabilize the lithium, but lithium=ion batteries DO contain lithium metal.
A lithium ion/cation is not lithium metal. It is lithium metal minus an electron, and why lithium is so good as a battery.
Lithium is not mined as a metal, it is mined as a salt compound. So lithium metal is not used in making these batteries. You could use lithium metal in the lab, but not on a large scale.
E zero of lithium is about 3V. Higher than any other metal.
Lithium is the lightest of all metals, has the greatest electrochemical potential and provides the largest energy density for weight.
Once again...50% of the entire demand of the California power grid is met by renewables.
...and it's 100% dependent on fossil fuel, nuclear and hydro. What you fail to realize is a large part of your electric bill is the capital cots to build those plants. Even when they are not running you are paying for them. Without some stupendous amount of capacity and storage you can never meet the reliability of that gas plant they will be idling. In addition to the unneeded expense of the batteries the more they are idled the more it cost to generate power from those plants.
California already has one of the highest electric rates in the nation, this will increase it even more.
Reading through this thread proves that the vast majority of people posting have zero idea what is actually being proposed or how such a system works.
Through the expansion of renewable power generation sources such as solar, California now produces more energy during the day then it uses. When night comes and solar production drops or there are demand spikes, those situations are currently handled by natural gas power plants known as "peakers". They are called this because they are specially designed to be able to quickly ramp up and ramp down production to ensure that the grid can meet demand.
It is these "peakers" that are going to potentially be replaced by the expansion of the battery farms. These types of farms are already operating in California and have been very successful. Regular natural gas power generation will still be a critical part of the power grid in California and the nation as a whole, generating the baseline level of power needed while solar handles the day time surges and the batteries store excess solar to handle the early evening demand spike.
Amazing how people can turn legitimate industrial and technological progress in improving the functioning of the power grid into such a ridiculous partisan political argument.
As technology advances, renewable energy sources will put fossil fuels out of business.
As the technology of electricity storage advances, and the price of capturing energy, converting it to electricity and then storing that electricity becomes much cheaper...then renewable energy will start putting a dent in fossil fuel's market share.
For the consumer, it is all about (1) price and (2) reliability....AND NOT HAVING TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR.
When renewable is as cheap as setting up your utilities with the local provider and offers the same "anytime I feel like running every device in my house at the same time for 3 days straight because I freaking feel like it" reliability, then you'll see people begin to migrate that way, especially if it is cheaper.
Price, value, convenience. When renewable beats fossil fuel on all three, yes, the market will respond.
A lithium ion/cation is not lithium metal. It is lithium metal minus an electron, and why lithium is so good as a battery.
its not the number of electrons that makes lithium a metal, its the element itself that is classed as a metal. the number of electrons, compared to the number of protons, only determines the stability of the element and not its classification. take away a proton or two and the element is no longer lithium, same with adding a proton or two.
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Lithium is not mined as a metal, it is mined as a salt compound. So lithium metal is not used in making these batteries. You could use lithium metal in the lab, but not on a large scale.
lithium is mined as a salt, NNNOOOO really?!?!? you wouldnt kid me on that would you? sodium, potassium, and other similar metals are also mined as salt compounds, and the metal and chlorine are separated out from each other. remember these are unstable elements, and nature prefers stability, thus these elements will combine with other unstable elements to create stable compounds.
its not the number of electrons that makes lithium a metal, its the element itself that is classed as a metal. the number of electrons, compared to the number of protons, only determines the stability of the element and not its classification. take away a proton or two and the element is no longer lithium, same with adding a proton or two.
lithium is mined as a salt, NNNOOOO really?!?!? you wouldnt kid me on that would you? sodium, potassium, and other similar metals are also mined as salt compounds, and the metal and chlorine are separated out from each other. remember these are unstable elements, and nature prefers stability, thus these elements will combine with other unstable elements to create stable compounds.
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