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Real Engineering's video: https://youtu.be/ahxBbEwhIE0
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Can Batteries Power Everything? This video is about the physical and chemical limitations to electrolytic batteries, and how we might surpass the energy density and specific energy of lithium-ion batteries (like the Panasonic 18650 batteries used in the Tesla Model S, for example).

REFERENCES:

Lithium Fluorine Hydrogen NASA Rocket fuel test: https://archive.org/details/na....sa\_techdoc\_1970001

Limits on Cell Potential of Batteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical_cell

Lithium Ion Batteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion\_battery

Standard Electrode Potential for Lithium, Lithium Graphite, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Standard\_electrode\

Trends in Gravimetric Energy Density (Specific Energy): https://www.researchgate.net/f....igure/255748970\_fig

Elon Musk/Telsa on why Lithium-ion is not exactly a lithium battery: http://benchmarkminerals.com/e....lon-musk-our-lithium

Lithium Sulfur Problems: http://www.sciencedirect.com/s....cience/article/pii/S

https://www.researchgate.net/p....ublication/225512575

Supercapacitors: http://www.electronicdesign.co....m/power/can-supercap

Panasonic 18650B Battery specs: https://na.industrial.panasoni....c.com/sites/default/

Anker PowerCore+ 26800 disassembled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJS3m\_CGbeY

Types of Lithium Ion Batteries: http://batteryuniversity.com/l....earn/article/types\_

Batteries & Electrochemical Cells on Hyperphysics: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.g....su.edu/hbase/Chemica

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