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Does this hemp battery company have the energy to replace lithium?
Before most batteries effectively powered the world by using lithium ions to send a shock to the anode, or positive end, they used zinc anodes combined with mercury — which we now know can be deadly. “In a lot of cases, the only thing battery companies …