RichD wrote:
>
> Battery technology is an active area of research, but an
> obvious question occurs to me: why is it, no one has determined
> the maximum possible energy/volume, and energy/weight?
> And from there, discover the chemistry which achieves it?
>
> Is there some lacuna in our understanding of solid state physics
> which necessitates an empirical, rather than theoretical approach?
Ya gotta reduce to practice, it must recharge at least 1000 times;
exploding during storage, use, or recharge is a bad thing.
1) Aluminum / fluorine battery is great gazongas on paper - dig the
equivalent weights;
2) tetrafluorotetracyanoquinodimethane /
1,3,6,8-tetrakis(dimethylamino)pyrene is great gazongas on paper.
3) Go build either one, inorganic or organic. We'll wait.
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