sodium nickel battery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:15:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 General Electric Develops New Long Lasting Battery https://www.greenoptimistic.com/general-electric-develops-new-long-lasting-battery-20120713/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/general-electric-develops-new-long-lasting-battery-20120713/#respond Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:15:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=25485 GE is now developing a more durable and long lasting battery that charges more quickly. It will make off-grid power generation more efficient and help utilities incorporate power from a wide range of sources including solar and wind power. A $100 million battery factory was recently opened by GE to make this new kind of […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/general-electric-develops-new-long-lasting-battery-20120713/feed/ 0 25485 PNNL Researchers Reinvent Sodium-Nickel Chloride Batteries and Make Them 30% More Powerful https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sodium-nickel-chloride-batteries-pnnl-20101012/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sodium-nickel-chloride-batteries-pnnl-20101012/#respond Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:52:30 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11113 Lithium ion batteries have been so far the best option for storing energy. Lithium is nevertheless an expensive material and a precious natural resource, whose extraction involves complex chemical processes, often damaging to the environment. Sodium-nickel chloride batteries, on the other hand, promise a cheaper alternative to lithium ion due to recent innovations from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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