Jolly Rancher on Nostr: I don't know, exactly, and +/- this week's Trump tariffs. You can see from the ...

I don't know, exactly, and +/- this week's Trump tariffs. You can see from the picture that the company is Chinese. LTO batteries are solid-state, quite rugged, and Chinese companies are quickly ramping up production. Lithium is lithium, you know about that already. It's found in salt deposits in dry deserts such as the Atacama. It's a comparatively rare element, but nature concentrates it for us in a few places. There are also spodumene deposits here and there among solid rocks.. Titanium is the white stuff in white paint, it's a fairly abundant element.

But really, and toward the end of your exposition, you are moving toward nickel-iron. You have added iron to your battery, now consider nickel for the other electrode. A few other tweaks, like KOH electrolyte and catalytic recombiner caps, and you have a cell made of cheap, environmentally-friendly materials that will last a century. Only about 50% efficient, but it doesn't decline over time.