Despite the reduction in the cost of lithium batteries and pumped-storage hydroelectricity, the storage of significant quantities of electricity remains one of the main challenges of our time. But what if the solution was right under our nose? Or rather right around us and our home? A team of international researchers have developed a prototype of a brick that is capable of storing electricity, allowing basic bricks to essentially function like batteries.
The goal of the researchers is to augment the energy density of the bricks, which, for the moment, only represent 1% of that of lithium batteries. But the researchers believe that it could be possible to increase this tenfold by adding materials like metallic oxides.
Beyond the economic advantage, these supercapacitors can be charged and recharged many more times than batteries before losing their storage capacity. The bricks can be recycled 10,000 times before their capacity is significantly diminished. For the time being, the prototype is only at the laboratory trial phase and would require years more of research before being put into practical use. But the idea allows us to envision a world of possibilities for the future of electric storage.
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