Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: ask me about my battery, published by bhauth on April 21, 2023 on LessWrong.

Some years ago, I designed a battery chemistry. Then, I got a semi-related chemical industry job. Then, in 2020, I did some testing at a university lab. Here's the basic design:

As far as I was able to test it, the battery design worked, but the project died. I haven't been able to do much with that design since.

The current name for this battery chemistry is "SMAC" for "sodium metal aqueous cathode". If you want, you can ask about:

technical details

experimental results

why I didn't do X

the response from X types of people

other battery chemistries

I could certainly provide more details here, but I'm curious what people are most interested in.

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