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Summary Reader Response Draft 3

The article “The Future”, Lockett (2022) introduces a new discovery of lithium-sulphur batteries and how it will shape the future. Currently the battery tech of choice has always been lithium-ion battery, however they have some downsides to using it. According to Lockett (2022), the raw materials that are needed to build lithium-ion battery are lithium, graphite, cobalt and manganese. However, cobalt is environmentally damaging as they leach out toxic chemical when mining it. There is also the life cycle problem where the lithium-ion battery will lose its power storage capacity if it is repeatedly being charged, battery degradation is also an issue for the electronic vehicle (EV) world as it will cost a fortune to replace the battery in it, thus it will have to be thrown away and contributed to electronic waste which is becoming a problem for the world to deal with. There is also the density problem as Lithium-ion battery packs are quite energy-dense but is heavy and bulky. This will l

Summary Reader Response Draft 2

This article “The Future”, Lockett (2022) introduces a new discovery of lithium-sulphur batteries and how it will shape the future. Currently the battery tech of choice has always been lithium-ion battery, however they have some downsides to using it. According to Lockett (2022), the raw materials that are needed to build lithium-ion battery are lithium, graphite, cobalt and manganese. However cobalt is environmentally damaging as they leach out toxic chemical when mining it. There is also the life cycle problem where the lithium-ion battery will lose its power storage capacity if it is repeatedly being charged, battery degradation is also an issue for the electronic vehicle (EV) world as it will cost a fortune to replace the battery in it, thus it will have to be thrown away and contributed to electronic waste which is becoming a problem for the world to deal with. There is also the density problem as Lithium-ion battery packs are quite energy-dense but is heavy and bulky. This wil