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Meanwhile, Tump fired the entire national science board
Kid Rock is working on a new battery. Game changer.
Hook a generator up to Republican flip flopping hypocrisy, and we could power the universe.
Revolutionary new battery idea that will overtake lithium ion huh? Throw it on the pile
For grid-storage they may very well be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_redox_flow_battery
is e.g. in place in Sacramaneto, CA with a storage of 2 GWh and a maximum power of 200 MW.
For grid-storage durability and ovrerall cost efficiency are more important than energy density so I expect redox flow batteries to overtake lithium ion based batteries there.
Meanwhile the US has a president who doesn't understand how magnets work.
To be fair, neither do i. Or probably most people. But he fires people who do.
Magic is an understanding.
I've seen this article every two weeks for the last 15 years.
Ehh I follow the battery news well enough to know it's different this time.
The way you can tell is that it isn't coming from the MIT press release department.
Honestly, it's a good time for batteries and solar panels.
I think we're just going to let out current infrastructure rot out from under us and while house generators run on gas.
I mean, we could modernize our infrastructure, but we can barely keep bridges standing and I'm not sure if utilities are communism or not. I suspect that they are.
The lithium iron phosphate is already pretty impressive, just a bit pricey.
Anything "flow" is going to be game changing to an extent I think let readers really barely understand. It turns energy storage into something as boring and understood as the refrigeration cycle. Flow means storage at scale becomes trivial.
The actual story buried at the end of a Sino #1 article-
In the United States, companies like Oregon-based ESS Tech Inc. are already deploying iron flow systems for tech giants like Google.
However, some of these existing designs could struggle with “dendrites” — tiny, needle-like crystals that can short-circuit the battery. The Chinese team believes they have leapfrogged these hurdles by using an alkaline-based chemistry and their new molecular “shield.”
But at what cost?
Less?
Iron batteries are big and heavy. Not good for portable applications.
Sounds heavy
Not a problem if these are used for grid storage.
Or ships.
Hah ok
By the way, what happens with redox-flow battery technology?
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