With Trump possibly repealing Paris Accord, technologists must take matters into their own hand

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Beyond batteries: This technology could revolutionise energy

Forget lithium battery fires: a safe, turbo-charged alternative way to store power could boost everything from smartphones to smart grids

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Renaud Vigourt

ByMark Harris

AGAINST the backdrop of the Nevada desert a gigantic factory is taking shape. Look at the artist’s impressions of the finished building and you could mistake it for a Martian colony, its ranks of solar panels stark against the reddish dirt. But this is the Gigafactory, a sprawling edifice covering around 600,000 square metres. Here, electric car company Tesla Motors plans to make a single component of its vehicles: the battery.

A good rechargeable car battery will set you back around $10,000, for a product that is toxic, degrades substantially after a few years and must be carefully designed to avoid catastrophic overheating. The Gigafactory represents Tesla CEOElon Musk‘s drive to make better batteries and so realise his dream of affordable electric cars.

Others are similarly exercised. Samsung’s recent woes with exploding batteries in its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone caused it to recall all the devices and cease production. “It will cost us so much it makes my heart ache,” said Koh Dong-Jin, president of Samsung’s mobile business. Better, cheaper batteries are top of the wish list for almost any technology that’s not powered by fossil fuels.

Yet as Musk and others are finding,it’s proving a long, hard road. Might there be a better way? That’s the claim of researchers championing a long-overlooked device to store and supply energy. They think it could actually stand more of a chance of delivering the power we need, how we need it – and so revolutionise the way we use energy. Is it time to look beyond batteries?

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Renaud Vigourt

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But fossil fuels are too cheap. The real cost - including climate catastrophe - is not being included in it's price. It needs to be so these other alternatives can rise.
 
a greenhouse gas is the type of gas you sell for a living which according your your side is at least 2000 times more powerful than co2.

I guess you missed that during your job training.
 
This was never ratified as a Treaty, so Trump is free to abrogate it. He will.

I particularly want Trump to void it and void the EPAS's anti coal regulations. Let him tell voters that they are based on junk science and that he is saving them massive utility bill hikes that obama and the democrats wanted to impose on them.

We will then relish the crying and wailing of the AGW religionists.
 
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/geoengineering-and-climate-change/

Today, with climate change accelerating and little being done to curb the greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists have resurrected the idea of "deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment," as the U.K.'s Royal Society puts it. After all, it's an idea nearly as old as the understanding of the physical principles behind global warming itself. Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius thought that global warming would be a boon to humanity and therefore fossil fuel burning should be encouraged, after calculating by hand the likely temperature impact of continued coal-burning and rising carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the late 19th century—roughly matching the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and their computer models more than a century later.
 
AAAintheBeltway said:
This was never ratified as a Treaty, so Trump is free to abrogate it. He will.

I particularly want Trump to void it and void the EPAS's anti coal regulations. Let him tell voters that they are based on junk science and that he is saving them massive utility bill hikes that obama and the democrats wanted to impose on them.

We will then relish the crying and wailing of the AGW religionists.
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It's your junk economics which makes you think coal is coming back.
 
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