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Whizzes' lithium-iron-oxide battery 'octuples' capacity on the cheap

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Re: Reaction!

What could possibly go wrong?

All risks are relative. If you had ten times the energy density of a current lithium battery you'd be around the energy density of gunpowder. But that's still in very rough terms a tenth of the energy density of petrol or diesel, which is a risk most people seem happy with, so for automotive use I think we can say that a worst case accident with this speculative battery technology is still going to be a whole lot safer than the worst case car accident for existing liquid or gas fuel technologies.

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