Battery made from water and clay could be used on Mars

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Battery made from water and clay could be used on Mars

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The new battery could be assembled from Martian materials

NASA

When pushed into the smallest of cracks, water can be used in unexpected ways. A new battery design that relies on tiny amounts of water confined within layers of clay could eventually offer sustainable power in places as extreme as Mars.

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at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and his colleagues built the battery with components similar to those of conventional batteries, including two electrodes, one with a negative and one with a positive charge. But instead of making these electrodes out of metal, they used the…

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