I'm skeptical.

Wait a second...if it's 100% carbon, where are the positively charged lithium ions, and negatively charged anions coming from? Now I'm skeptical too, but I still want to see them in action and for sale.

If this is for real...

FINALFUCKINGLY!

It always blows my mind that in 2014 with all our technology we still don't have any newer battery technology than lithium ion and nickel cadmium.

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But didn't the video say the 'electrolyte' was still made of lithium ions? Maybe I missed something?
I want it to be a real, cheap, stable, eco-friendly, powerful battery, but I have to wait to see it for sale and in action first.

And these batteries do us the additional favor of sequestering more of our extra carbon? I hope so.

I'm hopeful, but this smacks of vaporware. Basically a press release that says nothing. We'll see if/when this comes to market. If not, it would not be the first time the world was offered a game-changing battery technology and then...nothing.

Tell an engineer that you want a battery that’s powerful, safe, reliable, and cheap, and he’ll probably respond, “Powerful, safe, reliable, cheap: pick any two.”

It's "dual carbon" because both anode and diode are carbon. It is still a lithium ion battery, but it is much cheaper because most lithium ion batteries today use rare earth metals that are hard to mine, very expensive and difficult to recycle/dispose of.

So this battery might be cheaper and safer, but jury's still out on powerful and reliable.

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