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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (2978)	8/11/2019 2:38:53 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13803

There are a lot of scientific effort going in the duo Solar PV Storage We are today, in this two components of renewables above, where in computers we were in 1990. You surely remember when -circa 1990- memory and computer power were expensive. Then advanced countries (EU, US and Japan) were making joint efforts to make memory chips and lower the costs of computer by designing and manufacturing better processors. About 10 years later the price performance of memory and computer power went down and unleashed what we have witnessed in the past 20 years. Same will happen to Solar PV and Storage. It is just a matter of time... NOTE the Chinese got all that technological progress ready to go without investing in R&D.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (2978)	8/11/2019 4:31:36 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Recommended By elmatador Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13803

So far the most promising material to surround a carbon-anode inside a pouch, as part of a lithium battery, is Lithium difluoro(oxalato)borate, CAS 409071-16-5. A white powder soluble in a range of non-polar solvents. This inorganic compound where a two carbon dioxides have replaced two fluorines is more effective than lithium tetrafluoroborate LiBF4 or lithiumhexafluorophosphate LiPF6 and is non-toxic and stable over a much wider range of conditions than these alternatives. I use lithium fluoride as a flux in ceramics, a white powder costing about $34 a pound. Combining fluoride with either lithium or boron is extremely exothermic, so not even the heat of a 2,400 F ceramic kiln can liberate free fluorine gas from this bond. Lithium borate is the basis of glass with extremely-low thermal-expansion, used in glass or ceramic cookware.