NantEnergy's zinc-air rechargeable battery

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Patrick Soon-Shiong, NantKwest CEO, chairman of NantEnergy and Los Angeles Times owner, discusses NantEnergy's new zinc-air rechargeable battery system that he hopes will eventually replace the lithium battery.

NantEnergy said that at $100 per kilowatt-hour, the cost of zinc air batteries compared favorably with that of lithium-ion batteries, which can be $250 per kilowatt-hour but are more typically $300 to $400

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/business/energy-environment/zinc-battery-explain.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/business/energy-environment/zinc-battery-solar-power.html

[video=youtube;u8a-H62ogf8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8a-H62ogf8[/video]
 
We had commercial zinc air batteries for laptops 20 years ago. They failed. Maybe the engineering really has gotten better, but I really doubt it’s gotten *that* much better.
 
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