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The Liquid Metal Battery: Innovation in stationary electricity storage

School of Convergence Science · 518.3K views · 2019-01-18 · 1:04:12

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MIT's Donald Sadoway presents the liquid metal battery as a design for grid-scale stationary electricity storage, at an Imperial College London event in 2018. He covers the grid benefits of massive-scale storage.

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HN brings it up in energy storage threads as a promising scalable grid storage technology, and calls it worth the hour.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2019–2021

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Renewables, batteries & storageMaterials sciencePower grid, heating & buildings
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digibri · 2019-07 · Strong recommendation

This talk by Dr Sadoway is pretty amazing regarding his team's design for utility-scale liquid metal batteries: [VIDEO] It's an hour long, but it's well worth the time investment. This is not merely a theoretical technology. A company has been created around this technology: [LINK] (I am not connected to any of this, but I am quite excited by it.)

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RobertoG · 2021-07 · Recommendation

We are probably using the wrong kind of battery for grid storage. There are some promising techs out there, like Liquid Metal Battery: [LINK] [VIDEO]

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lebuffon · 2021-04 · Recommendation

I think this guy is onto something... Liquid metal batteries will be better than gravity storage IMHO. [VIDEO] First commercial scale system is going live in 2021 so we shall see how it works out.

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