The innovations in energy storage are coming so fast and furious it is hard to keep ‘current’ (little humor). Science-fantasy concepts are becoming reality every week in things like graphene batteries (graphene is an eco-friendly, sustainable, sheet of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice pattern with astonishing attributes, pictured below) and Supercapacitors, also known as EDLC (electric double-layer capacitor) or Ult
ra-capacitors that can store previously unimaginable amounts of energy. The race is on hyperdrive. Very exciting. See, Australia co LWP takes 50% stake in graphene battery technology:
“When compared to a Tesla 85-kWh lithium-ion battery for electric vehicles, the aluminum-graphene-oxygen battery offer 15% more power, while occupying 54% less space and being 30% lighter. Its life is nearly twice as long and the estimated cost is about 50% below that of li-ion batteries, says LWP’s press release.”
Link all these on-site storage tools into inter-continental grids that continually absorb and disperse all forms of sustainable, clean energy far and wide, and the question becomes, ‘what energy problem?’
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