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Nice video. Happy to see you guys testing out the HDR waters.

A nice idea to use an existing technology - printers - to encode data, Impressive that they managed to get a proof of concept to work quite well, goes to show that the idea is very reasonable. Doesn't seem super dense tho. Thought the long term arguments for the stability are a little theoretical, it'd be cool to see more work on that side of things, im sure that there is promise there too. Density is also not strong at 0.0271mbyte/mm2 vs blueray at 23mbyte/mm2... though maybe thats apples vs oranges as i guess long term storage is more the goal.

Well they're the ones that missed out on the free advertisement!

I thought if doing this! Fair play with actually going through with it! What did you ask them?

Christ their website really is devoid of information, but there was some details of the battery cells in one post in their "latest news" section (its in Swedish sadly, so i cant understand more than the slides. But the source is there if anyone feels like translating those couple of talking points :P). So it looks like they're not too bad, with a low density compared to lithium ion cells, and much better cycling.But i have really no idea how these batteries work, I cant find anything on them. The company does to have patents on organic electrodes and water-based electrolyte, but no "normal" documents on battery structure (reading patents is a bore, maybe its in there). A lot of this tech & materials seems to be based on the university's research group, their papers utilise the same materials as in the patents, although they focus on redox flow batteries. One post does associate Ligna Energy. So its unclear to me weather they are making just "normal" batteries, or also redox flow batteries later on for even larger scale solutions. Overall I think that the tech they have developed is really cool, using a waste product to make something of high value like batteries is smart, and the research papers seems to indicate they put a lot of work in optimizing organic redox flow batteries. Even if the performance isn't like that of Lithium ion batteries, its evident that they are targeting at a very different need than lithium cells which are expensive and relatively dangerous solution. I guess it can be frustrating to read about research technology that isn't at the point of being in the working world yet, but its equally frustrating to have a novel technology get immediately dismissed just because its not in everyones hands yet.

I'd put my guesses on no - lithium will always be much smaller than organic molecules, cant get around size.

its odd that their papers seem to mention large scale prep, while the op article/website mentions IOT devices. But yeah, I agree, it certainly wont have the density of metal counterparts.

They are working with the Laboratory or organic electronics. Using wood as a starting material is a good way to make a high value material from something cheap and abundant. Apparently they may be using a side-product of the forest and paper industries. If these can be made more cheaply than metal based derivatives it could really help with the adoption of renewables and large scale batteries in general. I would also imagine they somewhat safer then metal based batteries. Thanks for sharing the article.

This is not AI being used to preemptively make drugs illegal before they exist (or even discovering new ones (with regards the jacs paper)). It is being used to try and get a structure of a molecule using only one instrument in tandem with an AI model to help analyse the data. (Figuring out a structure is hard, and usually requires a battery of instruments - this is where the novelty of this paper lies). Structure and activity are so hard to guess: look at the difference between heroin and fentanyl. It would be hard to guess at first sight that they act similarly. Yet I think we can argue that it's a good idea they're both being controlled, despite their considerably different structures.

Fair, but you don't go there for b-roll now. I like MKBHD, though can be same-y. His "in hand b-roll" (is that still b-roll?) is great.