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Silicon-Air Battery Breakthrough

July 28, 2016Energy Matters

Silicon is cheap and plentiful – but using it in batteries has proved to be quite a vexing task. Researchers at Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich haven’t given up on the prospect and have made significant headway.

We first wrote about silicon-air batteries in 2009. Back then it was predicted rechargeable electric car batteries made using silicon would be available within a decade. As it turns out, it may be a little (or perhaps a lot) longer than that.

There has been progress since 2009 and other related developments. For example, University of Waterloo researchers created a lithium-ion battery with a silicon anode last year; but a major and ongoing issue for true silicon air batteries has been short run times.

The best that had previously been achieved was a few hundred hours – but the electrolyte used was expensive.

Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich, one of the largest interdisciplinary research institutions in Europe, say they believe they have identified the short run-time culprit. They say the issue has to do with the consumption of  active electrolyte through the battery self-discharging.

“If the silicon anode remains in contact with the electrolyte, the battery will continue running,” said Dr. Hermann Tempel from Jülich’s Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK), Fundamental Electrochemistry department.

Dr. Tempel says a test battery kept in contact with active electrolyte achieved a running time of over 1,100 hours, or almost 46 days. A pump system was developed to keep the electrolyte fluid, which consisted of potassium hydroxide dissolved in water, fresh and topped up.

Dr. Tempel is confident they are on the right track by tackling the self discharging issue.

“The battery is not yet perfect, but we now know what we have to work on.”

So while we may not see silicon-air batteries in the decade previously predicted; they are still a real possibility at some point.

If such an energy storage solution was achieved and could be mass produced, it would mean smaller, lighter and cheaper battery systems for all sorts of applications – from solar energy storage to electric vehicles and beyond.

Test set-up for the silicon battery: the battery itself is only the size of a button cell and is located in the hollow cylinder in the middle of the acrylic glass casing. The thin channels that pass through the housing control the supply Test set-up for the silicon battery: the battery itself is only the size of a button cell and is located in the hollow cylinder in the middle of the acrylic glass casing. The thin channels that pass through the housing control the supply and outlet of the electrolyte fluid. Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich

Now that we have a bit of history here is let me vent       

Will show the video a little bit later but I wanted to state that the above picture is stating that he created a self charging battery which you see in the picture, and we knew that silicone batteries have existed for a long time, silicon is also used in solar cells so it's not too far stretch to believe that this guy may have created something new. But being cautious I waited a long time to see if someone complain about his product and or if he ever was indicted for some kind of fraud, this never happened then I find even more evidence with someone I trust just a little bit more we'll try to show that video later to. So now we have something that's self-charging  almost like a silicone battery or made with silicone. I wasn't the only one who gets the lead look at this next video and understand.

Okay if you watch the last minute of this video then you will also see that he was skeptical about these types of devices that self charge, but after he did the initial test himself he said it was quite possible so we have something to keep researching. So my point is if we have crystal batteries that seem to last over 5 years and now we have these types of batteries that can self charge we are looking at a new error 4 energy consumption. But the mainstream media seems not to be focused on these types of inventions, again that may have to do with capital how do you make money if your battery self charge has a million times, or how do you make money if your battery last for 5 years without recharging. Who wants that on the market, but is these things are that easy to make then I think we need to express our independence and start making these things maybe we can put a company together that will sell privately things that are almost impossible to get because they are made and not sold on the main Market circuit. This is Media Library and we hope you like this information maybe one of you will give us a call so we can discuss putting these types of devices on the market Maybe and auctions or something like an eBay who knows when you have these types of Minds coming together Anything is Possible so with that I'm going to put this guy's video on that we promise and I'm out.

So we've giving you the information which was the purpose of this paper, but now we want to leave you with one last video what is the purpose of why I create media library or show me your proof and it's follows with the idea of this video to get people to experiment, to become independent from the corporate world and build your own. I couldn't have said it any better so that's the reason why we are giving this video here.

So if you guys could hear this sort of things in United States of America please send me those addresses of people talking about this subject in this video, and encouraging people to experiments to find out the secrets for themselves. Of course remember to watch all of his videos again you're going to find out a lot of sings that or not covered in United States. Which leaves a market open for us to explore.