Aluminum Battery?

From: sanman (manofsan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: 3 Nov 2004 13:49:55 -0800

Could someone please give their informed feedback on whether this
outfit is onto something real, or whether it's just a bunch of fake
hype?

http://www.europositron.net/

They claim to have developed some nano-scale method to treat aluminum
to avoid oxidation, so that it can be used to make batteries with 20
times the energy density of Lithium-Ion.

Is this for real, or is this just yet another scam?

I never knew Aluminum was even a candidate for battery material. I
think I remember reading about some Vanadium compound once -- for
something called a flow cell -- but I never heard anything about
Aluminum.

The site doesn't give any direct information on the electrochemistry
of this aluminum battery.

Here's some site I got thru google, that briefly talks about Aluminum
electrochemistry:

http://www.ectechnic.co.uk/alumair.html

So, is it safe to say that it's not the energy density of Aluminum as
a battery material that's in doubt, but it's the side-reactions with
hydrogen that are entirely to blame for its lack of wider appeal?

How would one stop the hydrogen corrosion? Any ideas?

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