A surprising breakthrough could help sodium-ion batteries rival lithium—and even turn seawater into drinking water. Scientists discovered that keeping water inside a key battery material, instead of removing it as traditionally done, dramatically boosts performance. The “wet” version stores nearly twice as much charge, charges faster, and remains stable for hundreds of cycles, placing it among the top-performing sodium battery materials ever reported.
gee…if only we could charge our smartphones. It’s expensive throwing them in the river when the battery drains.
Or some way to passively charge phones fast enough that they never need to get plugged in again. I hear one of the ways this would be done, would be by absorbing ambient radiowaves from telephone poles