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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by hwillis on Thursday March 02, 2017 @09:18PM (#13780249)
Yes, but its not a useful measure. Most batteries will have similar specific energy when compared by lithium directly. How effectively the lithium is used is also almost completely irrelevant to the cost, weight and size of the battery. It's just a really weird thing to measure and they don't actually specify what the grams are of- lithium or sulfur are just the only things that make sense.
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by yorwba on Thursday March 02, 2017 @09:57PM (#13780413)
The grams are specified as "g (Li metal)", so grams of lithium.
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by hwillis on Friday March 03, 2017 @12:49AM (#13781010)
Yes, but on first read I thought that they were specifying for the battery using lithium metal as they were also talking about sodium and nonmetallic lithium. It's just so random I didn't read it correctly.
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by yessql on Friday March 03, 2017 @12:14PM (#13784326)
Is lithium the most expensive material in the chemistry?
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by mtdewcmu on Friday March 03, 2017 @05:25PM (#13787410)
I made a cursory attempt to find the answer, and I was unsuccessful. I did find this[1], though (from my alma mater).

[1] https://engineering.cmu.edu/media/press/2016/12_13_whitacre_...