The race to better batteries!

Yo! This week’s mail was delayed by a day. But as the saying goes... Better late than never! Hope you are enjoying your weekend, we’ll keep today’s story simple.

💸 Recently, petrol prices have been shooting straight up! 📈 It went so high, my friend decided to indefinitely postpone his plans to buy a car 🚗 But on the other hand, the electric vehicle market is growing really fast. Also, many countries are focusing on investing highly in green energy sources 🌳

⁉️ But what do we really need to make the switch fully to green energy? The answer is simple... We Need Better Batteries! 💡 Cuz unlike fossil fuels, solar energy can’t run 24x7 ⏲ ☹️

🎐 Windmills need the wind, 🌊 tidal energy needs tides & ☀️ the solar panels need the sun all of which are available for free but not 24x7. How do we solve this problem?

🔋 We collect energy when they are available & store them in batteries when they are not available. As the number of renewable energy needs grows, the race has been going on to figure out how to build better, more energy-efficient & higher capacity batteries.

Someday, we'll be storing electricity the same way we are keeping our digital data fingers crossed

🎥 Video of the week

The world's biggest battery looks nothing like a battery by TED-Ed