Episode #339: Battery Technology with James Kaschmitter

Summary

James Kaschmitter, an expert in battery technology, discusses the advancements in energy storage and manufacturing. He shares insights from his extensive experience, including the development of the first Li-ion cells in the U.S. and the invention of the carbon aerogel supercapacitor. This episode explores the cutting-edge innovations shaping the future of energy storage.

Key takeaways

• 1James Kaschmitter: Founder/CEO and Senior Battery Specialist at SpectraPower, LLC with over 30 years in the battery industry.
• 2Developed some of the first Li-ion cells in the U.S.
• 3Invented the carbon aerogel supercapacitor.
• 4Upcoming events in Turkey and Egypt in 2025.

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Transcript excerpt

battery technology with james cashmitter you are listening to brothers of the serpent podcast and welcome back ladies and gentlemen boys and girls angels and demons and monsters and serpents this is brothers of the serpent podcast and we are coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent cube of science where we are nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atop the ober's plateau we have a special episode for you today we are joined by james cashmitter who is the ceo of spectra power he is a battery expert and uh so we've been we're going to get him on the show to explain to us the like how batteries work we're interested we're all interested in this because of you know like how did people start uh carrying around electricity with them right batteries are important for that we all know you know about the baghdad batteries but james is a an expert in lithium ion battery technology is that right james correct yes all right well welcome to the show man thank you very much for coming on thank you yeah my pleasure thanks russ uh so i'll pull up the screen share i guess sure yeah go into the launch into the presentation let me see so how's that is that good yep okay uh it's james cashmitter just to get it right so i have a battery research company in livermore california spectra power llc um going to talk about lithium ion batteries but kind of with a perspective on sort of features benefits and issues uh with lithium ion uh the um i'll just give a brief background on my background so i started working in lithium ion at lawrence livermore national lab in 1989...

Excerpt from Brothers of the Serpent, Dec 14, 2024. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.