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#BREAKING #Israel Massive anti-government demonstrations reported in Tel Aviv.
They demand the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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https://interestingengineering.com/science/sodium-battery-charged-in-seconds
>>20746888 (pb) – thought you might be interested, but of course, you have people for this…
New sodium battery that can be charged in seconds developed
Sodium, more abundant than lithium, is more appealing for energy storage systems over traditional lithium-ion electrochemical energy storage systems.
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra
Published: Apr 20, 2024 01:01 PM EST
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a high-power hybrid sodium-ion battery that can be charged in seconds.
Sodium is considered nearly 1000 times more abundant than lithium. Therefore, sodium-ion electrochemical energy storage devices are more appealing than traditional lithium-ion electrochemical energy storage.
Led by Professor Jeung Ku Kang from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the research team integrated anode materials typically used in batteries with cathodes suitable for supercapacitors.
The combination helped the battery to achieve high storage capacities and rapid charge-discharge rates. ''The study indicates that the battery can be a viable next-generation alternative to lithium-ion batteries.''
Hybrid sodium-ion energy storage device
Comprising the newly developed anode and cathode, ''the assembled full cell forms a high-performance hybrid sodium-ion energy storage device, which crosses the energy density of commercial lithium-ion batteries available in the market.'' According to researchers, the device exhibits the characteristics of supercapacitors’ power density.
“The development of a hybrid battery with high energy and high power density requires an improvement to the slow energy storage rate of battery-type anodes as well as the enhancement of the relatively low capacity of supercapacitor-type cathode materials,” said the team in a statement.
Sodium batteries can fulfill an increasing demand
The battery may fulfill an increasing demand for low-cost electrochemical energy storage devices with high energy density for prolonged operation on a single charge and fast-chargeable power density to meet a wide range of applications ranging from mobile electronic devices through electric vehicles (EVs) to large-scale grid systems.
Currently, available Sodium-ion energy storage systems are poor in rechargeability as they have a low power density while providing a relatively high energy density. Currently, two types of sodium storage systems are available, sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) and sodium-ion capacitors (SICs). Therefore researchers focused on sodium-ion hybrid energy storage (SIHES) cells.
SIHES can use the different potential windows of capacitor-type cathodes and battery-type anodes. It has attracted a lot of attention because this storage system, in principle, could simultaneously allow high energy density and fast-rechargeable power density.
According to researchers, the SIHES can achieve an energy density of 247 Wh/kg and a power density of 34,748 W/kg. Professor Kang said that the research represents a breakthrough in overcoming the current limitations of energy storage systems. He anticipates broader applications across various electronic devices, including electric vehicles.
It’s likely to be useful for rapid charging applications ranging from electric vehicles to smart electronic devices and aerospace technologies.
Co-authored by KAIST doctoral candidates Jong Hui Choi and Dong Won Kim, the study was published in the journal Energy Storage Materials.
>If it can be charged in seconds it can also discharge in seconds
So, essentially no different than LiON, diesel or gasoline in that regard; or am i missing something?
Nice work there…
>I think he's referring to the missile launch from Widbley(?) Island (the CIA base) that tried to take out AF1.
There's more to Whidbey Island
https://www.southwhidbeyrecord.com/news/ufo-event-on-whidbey-draws-a-crowd/
UFO event on Whidbey draws a crowd
By Laura Guido • January 15, 2019 1:30 am
UFO event on Whidbey draws a crowd
Washington state has always played a prominent role in the history of unidentified flying objects, and Whidbey Island is home to at least one of the most interesting cases one “UFOologist” has ever encountered.
Maurene Morgan, state director for Mutual UFO Network, outlined the history of and questions raised by a number of unexplained sightings and experiences across the state.
More than 70 people packed the meeting room Saturday at Coupeville Library to hear Morgan’s presentation on strange reports of lights, orbs, triangles and more in the sky going back as far as 1893. Her organization, called MUFON, serves as a research and investigation organization that people can report to, with chapters across the United States and several other countries.
Morgan’s focus is on Washington, from which more than 200 sightings were reported last year, she said.
Since 2005, 30 cases have been reported on Whidbey, most of which originated in Oak Harbor.
Now that more people have knowledge of her organization, Morgan said she hopes there will be more UFOs reported.
One of the most captivating incidents occurred late at night in July 2014. Oak Harbor resident Bud Ebanks was standing in his driveway with a few of his neighbors at around midnight.
Morgan started the story as part of her presentation, but Ebanks himself finished it.
Ebanks said that, without prompting, he and his neighbor’s 12-year-old daughter simultaneously looked at the end of the cul-de-sac. There, he recalled, they saw a white hot disk that pulsated. It hovered above the ground at the end of the cul-de-sac, and, in the middle, there was a dot that almost looked like an eye.
Something yellow dripped from its side.
“I’m thinking, should I shoot it?” Ebanks said. “I’m like, no. I’ll end up as a statistic.”
Ebanks said he and his neighbor’s daughter watched in stunned silence as the disk moved along the street, stopped once more, and then disappeared in between two houses across the street.
Nobody else standing in the driveway saw anything, he said. They’d all been talking and looking the other direction.
Neither Ebanks nor the girl wanted to go and investigate the area of the object they’d just seen.
“We were petrified,” he said.
Ebanks said he didn’t want to report the sighting to anyone, and he didn’t even know who to tell anyway. It was six months later when he finally contacted MUFON.
Morgan said she and other investigators work diligently to rule out any other possible explanations for these kinds of unusual sightings. No transformers blew. There was no activity reported by the base.
And, she said what made Ebank’s sighting most interesting was that she dsicovered an almost identical report from eastern Oregon.
Other attendees at the meeting indicated they’d seen inexplicable phenomena. Many already seemed to know about the extensive history of UFOs.
One man said with absolute certainty that these crafts can only be seen if the beings inside them want to be seen. Otherwise, they’re hidden, he said.
The man couldn’t be identified because he promptly left the meeting after giving his comments.
As for a mysterious “missile” photo taken by a weather camera last June, seemingly in the area of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, both Morgan and most people who participated in the discussion were unconvinced by the explanation that it was an ambulance helicopter, distorted by the long-exposure photo.
In 2009, an Oak Harbor resident photographed a mysterious red light in the sky. That same evening, a Camano Island resident made an identical report.
The police blotter from the Sunday following the MUFON meeting included a caller reporting“weird white lights in the sky.”
After decades of investigations and research, Morgan said her organization and the human race as a whole is no closer to understanding what these instances are or why they occur. She said stories beg questions of our species’ place in the universe, our understanding of reality and our readiness or ability to find and accept truths.
“What do we know after 50 years?” she said.
“Absolutely nothing.”