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Batteries have an important role as energy sources with environmental advantages. They offset the negative environmental impacts of fossil fuels or nuclear-based power; they are also recyclable. These attributes have led to increasing research with the aim of improving battery design and environmental impact, particularly regarding their end of life. In addition, there is a desire to improve battery safety as well as design batteries from more sustainable and less toxic materials.
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New research shows that aluminium battery could offer several advantages:
Aluminium metal anode batteries could hold promise as an environmentally friendly and sustainable replacement for the current lithium battery technology. Among aluminium’s benefits are its abundance, it is the third most plentiful element the Earth’s crust.
To date aluminium anode batteries have not moved into commercial use, mainly because using graphite as a cathode leads to a battery with an energy content which is too low to be useful.
This is promising for future research and development of aluminium as well as other metal-organic batteries.
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New UK battery project is said to be vital for balancing the country’s electricity demand
Work has begun on what is said to be Europe’s biggest battery. The 100MW Minety power storage project, which is being built in southwest England, UK, will comprise two 50MW battery storage systems. The project is backed by China Huaneng Group and Chinese sovereign wealth fund CNIC.
Shell Energy Europe Limited (SEEL) has agreed a multi-year power offtake agreement which will enable the oil and gas major, along with its recently acquired subsidiary Limejump, to optimise the use of renewable power in the area.
Renewable power
In a statement David Wells, Vice President of SEEL said ‘Projects like this will be vital for balancing the UK’s electricity demand and supply as wind and solar power play bigger roles in powering our lives.
Battery
The major hurdles for battery design, states the EU’s document, include finding suitable materials for electrodes and electrolytes that will work well together, not compromise battery design, and meet the sustainability criteria now required. The process is trial and error, but progress is being made.
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So, the history of the word aluminum (American spelling, since I’m American) is pretty boring. Sir Humphry Davy (If you think you have a bad name…) coined it himself in 1812, from aluma, the name for what we now call aluminum oxide (from alum, meaning, more less, bitter salt).
The interesting part comes in with the pronunciation. Americans say aluminum. English people say aluminium. Why?
The word, with the aluminum spelling, was premiered in Chemical Philosophy, a book by Davy, in 1812. But, then, that same year, someone reviewing Davy’s book anonymously objected to the spelling, proposing a new one, so that the new chemical would match other chemicals, like potassium and ammonium.
Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound.
This new spelling took off, and by now aluminium is by far the more common spelling of the word.
But in America, the aluminum spelling remains strong, thanks largely in part to Charles Martin Hall. Hall invented a much quicker and easier way of producing aluminum in 1884. While Hall preferred the aluminium spelling, in advertisements he misspelled it aluminum, and inadvertently popularized the spelling throughout America.
Now, while almost the entire English-speaking world says aluminium because of one guy’s book review, America still says aluminum because of one guy’s fuckup.
Apropo of nothing, Charles Martin Hall was kind of a looker, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Cadeau de la préfecture à l'usine #Alteo qui pourra jusqu'au 8 juin déroger aux normes environnementales en déversant des rejets liquides dans les eaux du @ParcCalanques (parc national).
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