This week on Chemistry World
Posted by Patrick on Mon 26 Sep 2011Categories: News , This week's stories | [2] Comments
25 September 2011: Have something to say about an article you’ve read on Chemistry World this week? Leave your comments below…
Messenger sheds light on Mercury’s formation
Nasa probe may rewrite the books on the birth of the solar system’s smallest planet
Colourful research
Jeremy Smith tells Ruth Doherty why choosing inorganic chemistry was a case of columns versus colour
Solving a tangled polymer problem
A new model can predict flow behaviour of branched polymer melts like LDPE
Breathing life into medical devices
Tiny piezoelectric polymer belts produce electricity from respiration
Conjuring up gram quantities of a stabilising anion
German chemists have made gram quantities of an extremely useful anion via a rather scary route
Interview: Giles Cottier
The president of SAFC has set ambitious growth targets that he plans to meet by sticking close to his customers
Bacteria: the ultimate secret agent
Chemists have hidden secret messages in fluorescent bacteria using colour couplets to encode letters and punctuation
Patching up patients with a heart of gold
Cell communication in a patch designed to heal damaged hearts can be improved using gold nanowires
Electric vehicles set to charge ahead
Batteries may be the future for cars but there are still a number of technical hurdles to overcome
Wed 28 Sep 2011 at 1:43 am
Electric vehicles set to charge ahead
As usual the costs of batteries are incorrectly reported. You can as an individual buy large format prismatic batteries at the $300 a kWh or around $7000k for a 20 kWh pack.
$800 is a joke.
Fri 30 Sep 2011 at 9:38 am
I agree with drgrieve. Where on earth are these so-called experts living? Don’t they actually interact with the real world? 50 years ago if you were some beardie-wierdy-boffin tucked away in a lab somewhere, you could be forgiven for being so out of touch with reality – even if it were your ‘field of expertise’ (hah!).
For heavens sake do some research on the net. Wait! I’ll do it for you … http://alliancerenewableenergy.com/160-Ah-TS-LFP160AHA.htm?productId=9 … prismatic LiFePO4 cell, 3.2V nominal, 160Ah = 0.512kWh @ US$172. That’s US$336 per kWh and probably considerably less in quantity.
As soon as I see this sort of nonsense in an article I just stop reading it as clearly the person saying it hasn’t the faintest idea what they are talking about. Unfortunately, this situation is very common in the media generally. One has to assume they are all in the pockets of Big Oil. MW