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Burned rice hulls could help batteries store more charge

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Burning rice hulls provides a carbon neutral source of electricity.

Rice hull ash could provide a higher quality material for making battery electrodes.

The process is more sustainable than producing graphite from biomass, which must be heated to 2000C ( 3600F ) This is the first demonstration of hard carbon made through combustion.