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Posted by Tim De Chant on Fri, 17 Mar 2017
Super-Safe Glass Battery Charges in Minutes, Not Hours
Super-Safe Glass Battery Charges in Minutes, Not Hours — NOVA Next | PBS
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Who says that only young scientists make breakthroughs?

For John Goodenough, the 94-year-old co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, lightning appears to have struck twice. He recently published his latest battery design, the lithium-glass battery, an entirely solid cell that has a strikingly long list of admirable characteristics.
Will a New Glass Battery Accelerate the End of Oil?
By Mark Anderson
Posted 3 Mar 2017
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/does-new-glass-battery-accelerate-the-end-of-oil

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John Goodenough, coinventor of the lithium-ion battery, heads a team of researchers developing the technology that could one day supplant it.
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But the development is going to be with the battery manufacturers. I don’t want to do development. I don’t want to be going into business. I’m 94. I don’t need the money.”
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