The Lithium-Ion Battery Revolution | BBC Earth Science

47 seconds ago is criminal

Putting a 2022 clip, really? Please can we have something from 2025 here?

I could have done with a half hour show about battery technology as we now see it.

Where's Silicon-carbon batteries?

Is that a new propaganda to supress the truth about what these harmful or in some cases life threatening Li-io batteries have done to the world??

Still Li-io battery blast incidents happen everywhere......

We have come along way. In 1969. I was working with the artificial heart program at the NIH. We looked at Lithia batteries to power the artificial heart the best they could do at that time was the battery that required operation at 800°C.

Lithium greenwashing: The production of one ton of lithium requires approximately 2.2 million liters of water, diverting scarce water resources away from local agriculture and indigenous communities. The extraction process also leads to soil degradation, making it unsuitable for vegetation and disrupting local ecosystems

Decades of innovation stagnation in battery technology, it was a revolution decades ago, now they just refuse to invest in anything but a sure thing, leading to very slow development of battery tech, holding back countless other technological breakthrough's, it's a damn shame that the battery problem expensive though it is, has not yielded development of better sustainable alternatives in a small form factor. Though ice to see sand batteries and rust batteries looking viable for big storage.

Miniature fire bombs. 💣💣

God foresaw that humans would use lithium batteries. But nuclear batteries are the future.
Only scientists with an IQ close to Einstein's could invente it.

Methanol electrolysis offers 5 to 12 times the amount of power storage and it would be a cold day in hell to see it happen but I could imagine pouring rubbing alcohol into my laptop to power it up for the day