Morning in the suburbs of Brisbane begins as usual. Birds, humid air, and solar panels on roofs. Energy is already flowing. While people sleep in their homes, the sun’s rays fill the batteries. And everything would follow the usual
On one of the rare clear days, an engineer from the Osaka office was poring over tables and graphs. In another hemisphere, an entrepreneur in Düsseldorf was flipping through presentations in which every second of charging was converted into
The spring sun was already warming Delhi when an urgent analytical report arrived at the office of the Minister of Digital Development. It did not concern another glitch in the government services app or the spread of fake news.
Batteries are tired. The energy sector is pushing for faster growth, transport is rushing to eliminate exhaust emissions, and portable devices increasingly require high capacity, lightness, and speed. Lithium-ion batteries, which power the modern world, are beginning to fail.
The stage is dimly lit. A woman is moving in the center. Each step is precise, each turn measured. Opposite her is a robot that repeats her movements with the same precision. Instead of musical accompaniment, there are the
