Post #2015478

2026-04-29 13:40 UTC

The battery prototype demonstrated endurance, maintaining a stable structure and perfect reversibility over 6,000 cycles — equivalent to more than 16 years of daily operation — with zero loss in storage capacity. WTF!? If this battery is just half as good as they claim, it could be a game changer for storing power for solar and wind!

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@gian@lemmy.grys.it 2026-04-29 13:50

The problem is that 6000 cycles in laboratory are not the same than 6000 cycles in real life scenarios. It would be interesting to put that battery out in the field and to see how it perform in real life conditions (assuming that they are cheap enough to be produced in large volumes) If they are really that good you are right, but there are always a lot of revolutionary advance in lab that never leave it.

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@satanmat@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 14:26

IF is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting there. And yes IF it is as you said HALF that good, in either direction— the article mentioned ~80% under heavy loads. And that alone would be a game changer. Energy storage is the “oil” of the future. IF — we shall see. But I’m hopeful

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@CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 13:47

If all of the claims from Chinese tech companies and research was half as good as they claim we would all learn Mandarin by now.

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@Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2026-04-29 19:25

Those are not the metrics that are important for storing wind and solar. Cost per MWh is the important one. It is great to see, and isn’t an unreasonable jump from lifepo4. They already do 4-6k charge cycles with something like 20% degradation. This is a bigger deal for electronics and vehicles as it would make battery replacements unnecessary.

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