Lithium Sulfur Batteries - the future?

[R120]

Interesting article, I know next to nothing about battery tech aside from how the current crop of systems work, but this seems to be a genuine break through:

new-lithium-sulfer-e-bike-batteries-could-be-cheaper-greener-and-more-efficient.html

 

[northernmonkeyx]

Interesting article, I know next to nothing about battery tech aside from how the current crop of systems work, but this seems to be a genuine break through:

new-lithium-sulfer-e-bike-batteries-could-be-cheaper-greener-and-more-efficient.html

Gonna be ten years before that tech sees the light of day, or never.
Tesla/Panasonic are the leaders in battery tech, they will be the guys to alter any Lithium tech.

 

[Doomanic]

I love articles that have more fluff than a fat bird's belly button...

The new progress means that they have created "unprecedented" battery charge/discharge efficiency in a Lithium-Sulfur battery that could keep a smartphone charged for days or drive an electric vehicle for more than 1000km without recharging.

Totally meaningless claims without any battery specs being included.

Stick two batteries in a Tesla? Boom! 1000KM range.

 

[Beekeeper]

Lithium sulphur has potential but as yet they can’t seem to solve the problem of rapid cathode degradation meaning the number of useable charge / discharge cycles is very low compared to Lithium Ion.

 

[GrahamPaul]

Lithium sulphur has potential but as yet they can’t seem to solve the problem of rapid cathode degradation meaning the number of useable charge / discharge cycles is very low compared to Lithium Ion.

That's not how I read the article, starting from the sentence which says:

"Until recently, the team working on the project were having major issues with the storage chamber for the sulfur electrodes failing after a small number of cycles."​

The rest of the article and the patent application seem to imply that the solution to this is the reason for the breakthrough.

 

[Beekeeper]

That's not how I read the article, starting from the sentence which says:

"Until recently, the team working on the project were having major issues with the storage chamber for the sulfur electrodes failing after a small number of cycles."​

The rest of the article and the patent application seem to imply that the solution to this is the reason for the breakthrough.

Fair point. I’ve just read through it more slowly this time ?