Lithium air battery technology is the latest breakthrough that could change the future of sustainable energy

Scientists and engineers at a U.S. Research Center called Argon are claiming that they have a new battery that has four times the energy density of conventional lithium ion.

Batteries with this level of energy density could easily power commercial airplanes, ships, long haul trucks, all of the things that we currently think are too big and energy hungry to run on batteries.

In theory we could make an even cheaper battery cell with just iron and salt.

The Chinese EV maker BYD is reportedly planning on releasing the first sodium ion battery powered electric car this year .

Sodium ion batteries, similar to lithium, but not the same, have a slower charge rate and energy density.

Saku 3D printing platform can print ceramic, glass, metals, and polymer in a single layer.

Process is also designed to incorporate artificial intelligence quality checks of every layer to minimize defects and scrappage.

Process inherently reduces waste by only applying necessary material and recycling any excess right inside the machine.

This allows them to reduce factory footprint by 44% , lower capital expenditure by 23% , slash the number of operations by 69% .