What Comes After Lithium-Ion? - with George Crabtree

What comes after Lithium-ion? It’s only one of the most important technology questions in the world! Everything in the future of electronics, road vehicles, renewables, the electricity grid and even commercial aviation hinges on the answer.  So I went looking for a true expert, a realist, a deep thinker and someone working at the absolute global cutting-edge of energy storage science and engineering. And I found Dr George Crabtree!

Welcome to FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe, futurist and keynote speaker. In this episode, we're examining the future of batteries with George Crabtree, a deep thinker at the absolute global cutting-edge of energy storage science and engineering. George is Director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) at Argonne National Laboratory. 

There are lots of highlights to this conversation. As well as batteries, we touched on superconductivity, minerals supply, long-haul trucks, aviation, ultracapacitors, the hydrogen economy and more. But the one I like best is George's confidence. Argonne and the JCESR scientists are aiming BIG. And while there are formidable challenges, it looks like those step-change improvements to Lithium-ion batteries and large-scale grid batteries are only a matter of time!
 
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