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How Sulfur Could Be A Surprise Ingredient In Cheaper, Better Batteries

16 Feb 2024 | Abstracted from MIT Technology Review

"Sulfur is widely abundant and inexpensive...The cost of materials is around half that of lithium-ion cells...they could also beat out lithium-ion on a crucial metric: energy density. A lithium-sulfur battery can pack in nearly twice the energy as a lithium-ion battery of the same weight

"...there are still major technical barriers...Chief among them is getting batteries to last..."

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