A New Aluminum-Graphene Battery has World Changing Potential

• Imagine a cellphone battery that can recharge in seconds needing no recharge for 60-72 hours.
  
  
• Imagine having much higher power capabilities on your cellphone.
  
  
• Imagine an electric SUV that's lighter and needs no cooling, recharging completely in a half hour.
   
• Imagine solar cells that can handle 70-80 percent of energy needs, with long-term energy storage.
  
  
• Imagine such a battery being far cheaper to make, from the second most common solid elements on Earth, rather than rare lithium, which only has a few sources in the world.
  
  
• Imagine if the production of the battery has a fraction of the environmental consequence of lithium-ion cells.
   
• Imagine the battery lasting 2-3 times longer than lithium batteries with no loss of storage capacity.
  
  
• And there's no danger of this battery overheating. None.

These are some of the promises of a new battery cell developed by an Australian company, Graphene Manufacturing Group. The batteries are being test-marketed now, and may be ready for the world market by early 2022. Like the blue LED, they have the potential of transforming the world's energy system, and therefore its economy and politics.

With all the current bad news, sometimes applied science gives us a reason to look forward to the near future. Curiosity keeps me going.