A Scientist Answers Your Battery Questions

December 26th, 2012 by Zachary Shahan

After announcing a big EV battery research project on December 1, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) let us know about a Q&A opportunity with one of its scientists regarding batteries. After collecting a number of questions, Berkeley Lab battery scientist Venkat Srinivasan answered several of these questions. Here’s the video:

Dr. Srinivasan may still answer questions you have about batteries if you post them in the comments of the video above. If you’ve got some, head on over there and type away!

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Tags: Berkeley Lab, EV batteries, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, quickies, videos

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anderlan

HERE IS THE URL OF THE VIDEO WITH A SCIENTIST TALKING ABOUT BATTERIES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ukJZS0BJs
- Bob_Wallace
  
  Thanks.
  
  Now, do you can locate your Caps Lock key and punch it off?
  - anderlan
    
    Hehe. Was understandably disappointed with our beloved CT editors, blowing off a little steam, sorry.
    - Bob_Wallace
      
      The site is run by humans and we know that they sometimes err.
      
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sina

i can’t understand how this video relate to batteries breakthrough !?
- dynamo.joe
  
  I let the video keep running and the battery dude was the 3rd one.
  - http://www.facebook.com/matthew.t.peffly Matthew Todd Peffly
    
    Ohhhh the 3rd video, wait for it
  - Guest
    
    HERE IS THE URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ukJZS0BJs
    YOU ARE USELESS. YOU FAIL AT INTERNET. SAME FOR THE EDITORS OF THIS BLOG.
- http://zacharyshahan.com/ Zachary Shahan
  
  Apologies. Apparently, I initially used the link to the channel instead of the link to the video.