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What is a battery? How were they invented? How does a modern battery work? How to make batteries sustainable? Our panel of experts takes a deep dive into the world of batteries.
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This discussion was generously supported by the Faraday Institution.
The speakers in the order of appearance are:
Serena Corr is Professor and Chair in Functional Nanomaterials at the University of Sheffield, as a joint appointment between the Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on the design, synthesis and characterization of functional nanomaterials in particular for applications in energy storage, with an emphasis on understanding their intimate structure-property interplay.
Simon Moores is Managing Director of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a price assessment and market advisory company for lithium ion batteries and energy storage supply chains.
David Greenwood leads the Advanced Propulsion Systems team at WMG which covers a wide remit of related areas within Energy Storage (Battery Systems); Energy Conversion (Electric Machines; Power Electronics); and Energy Management.
Judith Richardson is Global Purchasing Director, Electrical Propulsion, at Jaguar Land Rover.
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what about Baghdad battery? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
Wtf is up with all the ad haters? the RI needs money just like any other institution, this video clearly states that there is a paid promotion and it's at the end of the video, you can simply not watch the end. There's nothing wrong with running ads in a scientific or educational environment, as long as it doesn't interfere with their activities. If anything, the money they will get from this will help fund further lectures and spread of information.
What is dark matter molecules?
These are four questions about dark matter molecules
Is dark matter the axions
?
Are the dark matter particles WIMPs?
Are the dark matter particles
SDIM
?
Are the dark matter particles
Neutrino Sterile
?
There are experiments to detect the dark matter in the ground, but we want to use the same experiments in the spacecraft
Experimenting in areas where dark matter is present for collisions at detection sites
In detectors in the areas of dark matter halos in space
Mean must use ground experiments such as Lux experience and 100% Pure Xenon experiment
All experiments should be used in the depths of the earth and space at the same time
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From what I was taught, Galvani noticed the reaction of a frog's leg when in contact with two dissimilar metals, not when wired up to a lightning conductor. Benjamin Franklin was associated with the invention of the lightning conductor while Alessandro Volta replaced the Galvani's frog leg with brine-soaked paper to create a voltage source.
At 28:45 , Tesla plans to now skip this step due to the technology they bought from Maxwell. Instead of a wet process they will electrically charge the foil and also charged the powder thus making them stick together, a bit like powder coating.
ipace: 90kWh for 234mi
Model 3: 75kWh for 310mi
Lol.
How is Brexit going to effect this industry in the Uk
A woman? At the Royal Institution?!
@Simon Moores
What exactly are "battery arms"?!
I would surely like to check her batteries! xoxo
So, is there anybody doing recycling of lithium-ion batteries at scale to recover cobalt, nickel, lithium, aluminium, copper and steel? In North America or Europe?
Did one of the presenters say that a Li ion was a similar size to a Ni ion ? How can that be ? A Ni ion has nearly 10 times the number of protons, let alone the neutrons. Why can't Na or K ions be used in place of Li ?
Hey RI
so many comments on Juguar sales ad that ruined the whole presentation, do you see that!
Thanks for an interesting overview of battery technology. The iPace ad is a total fail, however. Driving an EV is not noisy. Why blast loud music and the simulated growls of an 'infernal' combustion engine at potential customers? The sales pitch video would have worked much better without the racket.
I am envious of a nation that can openly discuss and pursue industrial policy, with resources allocated to capability.
Thumbs down for jaguar commercial.
Thanks to the commenters informing about the true nature of this talk being a great big car ad. Gave this one a miss not more than 2min in
So battery's are going to save the planet? What is the source of the recharge power?
I like how the first lady appears genuinely interested in her topic and knowledgeable about the subject rather than appearing as a presentation.
And later, that was a humorous ad product placement, they should also put it in games small 1 year old children would be playing painting the screen, where it would give them more data on their quest for their most useless audience (in kilotons per year).
I don't think the RI needs to have ads in their talks…
Jaguar commercial at 42:00 was pretty jarring. Not what I expected or want from RI. This commercial pretty much ruins the whole lecture.
Tesla announced a million mile battery.
What a swizz. Serena was only on for 20 minutes! 😡
"Caffode"?!
marketing director of jaguar you are fired!: we want a quiet and affordable electric car and not a star wars race vehicle
Why is everyone going off about Cobalt and child labor now? That wasn't a concern when Cobalt was a vital resource for the first color TVs