alt Hacker NewsFor comparison gasoline has about 9000 Wh/L of raw chemical energy, of which maybe 30-40% gets converted to useful work.
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culopatin • yesterday at 8:17 PM
Almost half way there
jeffbee • yesterday at 8:49 PM
ICE engines outsource half of the reactants to the atmosphere, so this comparison isn't as useful as it appears at first.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Gunpowder is 4-10 times less energy dense than gasoline. The difference is that gunpowder includes fuel and oxygen-producing substances, much like most of Li-ion batteries.
This thing is in gunpowder energy density range.