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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on November 03, 2016, 08:47:41 am

Title: Junkyard Batteries
Post by: Nemesis on November 03, 2016, 08:47:41 am
Link to full article (https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/11/02/making-high-performance-batteries-from-junkyard-scraps/)

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To make such a future possible, Pint headed a research team that used scraps of steel and brass – two of the most commonly discarded materials – to create the world’s first steel-brass battery that can store energy at levels comparable to lead-acid batteries while charging and discharging at rates comparable to ultra-fast charging supercapacitors

Batteries from scrap.  Windmills for power generation.  How long for Stephen to go off grid entirely?