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What is Al-Air Battery?
Aluminum air batteries produce electricity from the reaction of oxygen in the air with aluminum. The formula is quite simple: aluminum, + air, = power. A reaction of oxygen and aluminum in the air creates electricity and leads to a charge that can be used; they have one of the highest energy densities of all batteries,

How does an Al-Air Battery work?
The ‘fuel’ is an aluminum metal known as the anode, which reacts with the oxygen, known cathode, around it to create power. Since the cathode is just oxygen from the surrounding air, there is no need to carry the weight of another metal like a conventional battery, making it considerably lighter.

Air is sucked into the cathode system containing a catalyst to speed up a chemical reaction to separate the oxygen molecules from the air and other components of air by the silver-based catalyst that blocks co2 from entering the battery, but it allows oxygen to pass through the electrolyte to react with the water and produce negative hydroxide ions at the anode, positive ions of oxygen react with the aluminum causing the formation of aluminum trihydroxide.

Which is a white powder and electrons. Those electrons mean we can generate electricity when the battery is connected to a load like a light bulb. These electrons move from the anode to the cathode to give back those electrons that were lost during the chemical reaction.

Advantages of Al-Air Battery:
1) Aluminium air batteries require no electricity as they don't need to be charged.
2) The aluminum Hydroxide solution generated in the used battery can be sent to a recycling unit to get 100% aluminum back.
3) Aluminium air battery technology is safer because it uses only a water-based electrolyte that is free from toxins, unlike lithium-ion technology, which uses organic toxins-based electrolytes that are highly inflammable.

Disadvantages of Al-Air Battery:
1) Nothing's perfect, and neither are these batteries' major disadvantages and challenges, like the fact that it's not rechargeable.
2) The battery will no longer produce electricity once the aluminum anode is consumed by its reaction with atmospheric oxygen. It just stops working and has to be replaced.
2) An aluminum-air battery would have to be towed to a battery swap station; that's a big problem.

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00:00 - Intro
00:10 - What is Aluminum Battery
01:55 - How does an Aluminum Air Battery Works?
04:05 - Battery Swapping
05:08 - This Technology is not just for Cars
06:00 - Aluminum Battery vs Lithium-Ion Battery
07:38 - Advantages of Al-Air Battery
08:13 - Advantages of Al-Air Battery
09:41 - Wrap Up

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