A new type of battery is 6 times more efficient than lithium-ion

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Thermal Energy Device (Thermal Battery) is a development by Australian engineers that could become the new standard in the battery industry. The world's first working device on the eve introduced the startup Climate Change Technologies. As it turned out, this type of cell can store 12 times more energy than lead-acid and 5-6 times more than lithium-ion batteries of a similar size. At the same time, the cost of such a battery is 60, or even 80 percent lower.



To charge thermal storage devices, you can use the energy received from any source, from connecting to the network and ending with the solar wind, etc. It is necessary for heating silicon to a temperature of 1400 ° C, which is located in a special protected chamber and cools extremely slowly. In turn, a conventional heat engine is used to extract energy.



The developers claim that their battery will last up to 20 years. At the same time, traces of natural depreciation will not appear even after 3000 cycles. Thanks to its modular structure, the new battery has a minimum size and no maximum. An element can be scaled, increasing its power to tens of megawatts.

A standard thermal battery containing 1,2 MWh of energy will fit in a 6-meter container. The minimum volume starts with 5 kWh option. Naturally, this type of battery at the moment can not be used in cars and especially gadgets due to their "bulkiness". However, according to the designers, they will become useful in industry, shipbuilding, and even in everyday life.

At the moment, countries such as Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark are already interested in the development. And the company Stillmark Telecommunications has signed an agreement with an Australian startup on the commercial use of new batteries.
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  1. Digital error
    Digital error
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    April 3 2019 22: 18
    Thermal Energy Device (thermal battery) - development of Australian engineers

    Stop. We have the whole Rusnano.
    It’s like a whole plant built to produce lithium-ion batteries.
    Is Chubais to blame again?
    1. ver_
      ver_
      +1
      April 4 2019 02: 56
      ... Rusnano - a means of cutting, not building ...
      1. Pishenkov
        Pishenkov
        +1
        April 4 2019 10: 36
        Does this structure have any breakthrough developments over the years of its existence and superfinancing (which even Chubais confirms)? Well, at least the type of the same Australian batteries?
        By the way, they are very applicable, it may not be for gadgets, but for houses, for example, with solar panels or windmills in remote places, various infrastructural things such as luminous road signs and signs, advertising, lighting, industrial and urban, etc.
  2. Nemutaisama
    Nemutaisama
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    April 4 2019 02: 55
    which could become the new standard in the battery industry

    Well, why so exaggerate? The development may be fine, but too specific. The level of self-discharge of such batteries is even pointless to compare with traditional ones, so this will never appear in cars and gadgets.
    The advantage in the capacity-volume ratio is also clearly lost on small sizes.
  3. Sergey Latyshev
    Sergey Latyshev
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    April 4 2019 09: 21
    Every week, news about the development of new super-batteries ....
    Mostly over the hill.

    But in reality we only have junk prices rising ...
  4. pafegosoff
    pafegosoff
    +1
    April 4 2019 20: 39
    And what is his efficiency? If, during charging, he spends 100 kilowatts and gives out 2 kilowatts, then less than 6 times the weight, somehow ... If our deputies want to raise tariffs on electricity for all these batteries and electric cars after 200 kilowatts, the costs are unjustified.
    Somewhere in the Far North, charging from a windmill, in the desert - from solar panels. With a drop in consumption at night, yes, there can be a good alternative to lead.
  5. Ygm
    Ygm
    +2
    April 7 2019 13: 01
    I think it's no secret that ANY batteries sometimes explode.
    Interestingly, and what will be the effect of the explosion, these same, "SIX TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE" ???
    1. ksv36
      ksv36
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      April 10 2019 12: 34
      The explosion effect will be six times more effective than the rest.
  6. Alexander Otenko
    Alexander Otenko
    +2
    April 11 2019 12: 12
    The article is not only empty, but also introduces the reader into confusion. First: they did not explain what a heat accumulator is, but it is some kind of thermally insulated body, in this case silicon. Yes, in preheated silicon, up to 1400 degrees, there is a lot of thermal energy, and in preheated, up to 2800 degrees, 2 times more thermal energy. What is the use, there are more problems. Somehow it is necessary to insulate. 1400 degrees a lot of energy. And how to convert to electricity? Just select for heating the house is also not easy. In general, the application of this miracle is still the task.