By 2030, vehicles will be able to run on baking powder, claims the expert

Oxford: According to an Oxford University expert, it is quite possible that by the end of this decade, cars will be powered by baking powder and ships powered by fertilizer.

Currently, lithium-ion batteries are considered to play a key role in the transition to sustainable energy. Electric devices like Teslas, iPhones, and cordless drills all use these batteries.

While many businesses consider hydrogen energy to be the aviation industry's green future. Yet according to Bill David, an expert in organic chemistry at the University of Oxford, baking soda, which is frequently found in kitchens, will outlive hydrogen fuel and lithium-ion batteries.

Professor Bill David predicts that sodium, which may be found in salt, seawater, and baking powder, would predominate in batteries for future automobiles and household appliances.

This element is more prevalent in the planet than lithium, although getting lithium through mining is become more challenging with time.

This forecast was made by Professor Bill David, a member of the team that developed lithium batteries in the 1980s, ahead of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Washington, DC.

According to him, this is not performing at its best, thus researchers will require both items. These batteries will still contain lithium, but there will be more salt surrounding it.

He predicted that most electric vehicle batteries deployed by 2030 will be made of lithium and sodium. It would not be remarkable if by 2040 sodium batteries outweigh lithium batteries by 10 times, or possibly 100 times. He claimed that while salt can be used to make sodium batteries, baking powder will be more effective.

On the other hand, while aviation companies believe that hydrogen energy is the environmentally friendly future of the sector, Professor Bill David believes that ammonia found in fertilizers is a sustainable solution to this problem.