TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Composition: The liquid catholyte has sulfur (S) concentration of at least 5, preferably at least 10 M.Preferred Material: The electronically conductive material comprises carbon.Preferred Component: The negative electrode is an alkali metal electrode, preferably lithium (Li) metal electrode.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - POLYMERS - Preferred Material: The electronically conductive material comprises electronically conductive polymer.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ELECTRICAL POWER AND ENERGY - Preferred Property: The battery cell attains at least 10, preferably at least 20% utilization at ambient temperature. The positive electrode comprises a layer having an average thickness of at least 40 micron. The cell discharges at an average current density of at least 0.5 mA/cm2 over at 50 cycles in criteria and at least 2 cycles.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Component: The solvent comprises ether, dimethoxyethane or dioxolane. EXAMPLE - A cathode film was made with slurry composition (wt.%) carbon black (70), polyethylene oxide (25), and Brij (RTM) (5). The cathode film weighed approximately 0.0037 g/cm2 and was vacuum dried overnight before transferring into argon glovebox for final cell assembly. Sulfur was added to cathode by inserting 200 microL of tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether solution with 0.5 moles of lithium-trifluoromethanesulfonimide and approximately 3 moles of dissolved sulfur (S). After insertion of dissolved S into cathode, the microporous separator was placed on the cathode, then additional 20 microL of dissolved S solution was placed on the microporous separator. A 5 mil thick lithium anode film was placed on separator sheet, assembled, and compressed at 2 psi. The cell was tested with rates of 5-microamp/cm2 for discharging to a cutoff voltage of 1.5 V and 90 microamp/cm2 for recharging.    Result showed that cell performance was consistent and more than 70 recharge cycles had been obtained at 40% S utilization.