Summary
Is battery technology the key to decarbonising energy and reinventing transport? If so, can the current technology, Lithium-Ion batteries, evolve quickly enough to meet growing demand. If capacity is the problem, is Lithium-ion the answer and what are the alternatives? Can we expect to fly in battery powered aeroplanes in the near future?
Join Evan Davis and his guests as they discuss the future of the power of batteries.
GUESTS
Huw Hampson-Jones, CEO Oxis Energy
Cyrille Brisson, Vice-President, Eaton
Chris Morrison, Head of Peaking Plant, Centrica.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.6 | In this edition of the bottom line, we'll be talking about a technology that has the potential to save the world. |
| 0:09.3 | Batteries. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the first in the new series of the programme, and where better to start than with an industry that has the potential to save the world. |
| 0:18.9 | I exaggerate not. |
| 0:20.3 | Yes, it is an industry that holds the key |
| 0:22.7 | to decarbonising energy, in transport in particular, and in making renewable electricity |
| 0:28.7 | work on a massive scale. The technology of which I speak is that of batteries, a technology of |
| 0:35.1 | compressing large amounts of stored energy into a small, dense, practical form. |
| 0:41.1 | Well, the question facing us all is whether batteries are in the process of delivering on the |
| 0:46.0 | promise and joining me to tell us and my three guests. And let's take a few moments to meet the |
| 0:51.2 | three of them. And first up is Hugh Hampson-Jones from a company called |
| 0:55.1 | Oxus Energy. Hugh, batteries and you. What does the link? Essentially, I'm the chief executive |
| 1:01.7 | officer and Oxus Energy is pioneering the adoption of lithium sulphur as the next-generation |
| 1:09.7 | battery technology. |
| 1:11.6 | Right. |
| 1:12.4 | So are you just a research company or are you making things or selling stuff at the moment? |
| 1:16.9 | No. |
| 1:17.0 | We have been researching the technology since 2005 |
| 1:21.0 | and we are now in the process of commercialising the cell technology |
| 1:25.8 | for use in applications or vehicles. |
| 1:29.3 | Right. So lithium ion is the sort of standard battery that people are now familiar with in many applications. |
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