Electroforming battery grids is no longer a laboratory scale idea – DSL Dresden has made it a viable proposition. With lead prices likely to stay high, the Editor learns from Hans Warlimont why the technology is a money-saver for lead-acid battery makers.
I can remember the day I first met Hans Warlimont. It was in January 2001 at the now sadly defunct Long Beach Battery Conference, in California. Warlimont, a metallurgist who has worked in industry and academe, had come up with a very different way of producing battery grids, using electro-deposition; and this was . . .
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