AIR Battery
A new dawn in the energy sector is surfacing to the world after a research team from the universities of St Andrews, Strathclyde and Newcastle announced that it had made a major breakthrough in the production of a novel battery. Known as the STAIR battery or St Andrews Air battery in full, the battery will use air to produce energy. To be precise, the process of producing energy involves; absorption of oxygen from the air which is then reacted with a form of porous carbon to produce an electric charge that is then conveyed to the ends.
By using oxygen, the battery will be lighter. Moreover, it is expected to last ten times longer than the current lithium based batteries that rely on the use of traditional chemicals to produce charge. The battery will also be more powerful and cheaper to make since it only requires cheap carbon to make and thus will be less expensive than current battery-making technology. It also goes without saying that the oxygen required as a reactant is found for free in the atmosphere, thus it shall be cheaper compared to other sources of energy.
In a nut shell, this invention will change the future of cheap energy productions that should be emulated if the world is to move to cheaper greener energy. The research team estimates that it needs at least two more years to improve the research but it will take five years before the first STAIR battery is.
Soucrce: Tech Radar
