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Startup Company to Produce Liquid Metal Batteries for Grid Energy Storage

Guest Contributor — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:19:03 +0000

Cheap batteries that can store power from renewable energy sources like wind and solar are being developed by a startup company. Liquid Metal Battery’s ambition as a company is to bring this rechargeable battery at a very affordable price to the market. Even though their workspace is a small basement headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the […]

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New Grid-Ready Aqueous Lithium Ion Battery to Be Developed in German University

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:53:25 +0000

Although they’re being touted as the perfect energy storage medium for electric cars, lithium ion batteries, in the form they exist today, are not as good for grid energy storage applications. Dr. Fabio La Mantia from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum – Germany is going to develop an aqueous lithium ion battery adapted perfectly for the electrical grid. […]

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MIT Liquid Battery Inventor Returns With Big Plans for Ultra-High Current Industry

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:09:58 +0000

We have been talking about liquid batteries back in March, when an MIT announcement stated that they invented one that could store much more than regular batteries can in a simpler and fashionable way by using liquid metals and liquid electrolyte in the middle.

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