Berkley Labs Working on Extending Lithium Ion Battery Life 10 – 15 Years!!
With a 6 Million dollar grant from the Department of Energy, Berkley Labs, with the help of a couple other Institutions, is working on extending the life of Lithium-Ion batteries.
What they are doing for the first time is to study the batteries at a microscopic level. The demand for lithium batteries lasting 10-15 years is essential as we weed our economies off of oil. In order to reach this goal they need to understand what causes the batteries to deteriorate and lose charge and power capacity. If they can get a grip on these and extend the life of our batteries, we could see quite the revolution in our technical devices.
Imagine an Ipod lasting a week on a charge or a cell phone battery that you don’t need to replace after a year. The possibilities in our power hungry society for portable energy are astounding as the new technology and chemistries are produced.
What about you? How many devices do you lug around that require batteries? How will you benefit from longer life lithium-ion batteries?
Written by:
Ken