AI can improve batteries which will never see the light of day
 

Is there nothing AI can't do?

After decades of humans inventing new battery tech which for some reason never gets to market, it appears that the boffins have come up with a way of making AI do the job for them.

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon developed an AI tool called Dragonfly which will better electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries, allowing the batteries to charge faster.

The AI thought it was a clever idea because the electrolyte moves ions between the two electrodes in the battery. Lithium ions are formed at the negative electrode, flow to the anode and cathode, where they gain electrons. When the battery is charged, the ions move back to the anode.

It is a great idea, one of many battery inovations we have written about over the decades which we doubt will ever see a product. But that does not matter because the Carnegie Mellon boffins did not waste much time on the project because Dragonfly did most of the heavy lifting.

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