This is an interesting new old battery chemistry, developed to be rechargeable. And now the company is selling a storage system to a customer. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/05/16/urban-electric-power-pine-gate-renewables-agree-on-multi-gwh-battery-supply-deal/
Archive for the ‘Rechargeable’ Category:
2021-08-17 Laser Hydride Film Stores Hydrogen
This company called Plasma Kinetics has developed a thin film that can store hydrogen at the same volume as a 5000 PSI cylinder but lighter, and lighter than batteries. The medium can be very thin film or disks. The hydrogen is released by shining a laser onto the film. Because the hydrogen does not have
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2021-07-04 UEP’s BESS Lowers Costs $50/kWh
This is very interesting. A BESS that takes up less room than a lead-acid battery, can hold more kWh’s and is cheaper. They have a demo 2 MWh system in racks indoors. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/06/30/urban-electric-powers-long-term-storage-solution-takes-battery-storage-back-to-the-basics/
2021-05-07 Relithiation To Make Old Batteries Like New
If the old cells were made easier to take apart and reassemble it would be helpful. I think that someday the battery makers may do what Eagle Picher did for batteries on spacecraft. There is a container of electrolyte inside the battery. To activate the battery a small charge blows the electrolyte out of the
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2021-04-03 Sand Battery To Store Heat
This is a novel idea. Heat up sand during the daytime with solar energy. After sunset circulate the hot sand through a steam generator to run a turbine and generator. Short 2 min video. https://youtu.be/KozXB04eM-c
2021-03-26 Breakthrough Liquid Metal Battery – Sadoway & AMBRI
A tutorial about Ambri’s liquid metal batteries “If you want your battery to be dirt cheap, make it out of dirt!” – Donald Sadoway https://youtu.be/2BlyDVb5L3U LMBs are different. Sadoway says that the designers of Lithium-ion Batteries have to guard against thermal rise; The designers of liquid metal batteries have to guard against thermal fall.
2021-02-28 3 kW Solar + LiFe Battery For Under $3000
This is the kind of setup I would like to have. I would use it to run my heat pump / air conditioner and maybe a few other things like the microwave oven. And it would be used for charging my EV when it’s at home. The two solar PV panels are 800 watts total.
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2021-02-25 New Home Hydrogen ‘Battery’ Good For 3 Days
This was developed by the University in Australia. It seems to be two or three separate parts. It takes solar electricity and converts it to hydrogen. The H2 is stored in metal hydride ?cartridges? Then the H2 is made into electricity by fuel cells. It says that it also has a 5 kWh lithium battery
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2021-02-18 EV Batteries Charge In 5 Minutes
They say the problem is ‘range anxiety.’ The batteries can charge 100 miles in 5 minutes. This is one of Hashem’s videos. The references are in the pinned comment. https://www.facebook.com/693504594115135/posts/2330587737073471/?app=fbl
2021-02-13 Article Talks Trash Re: EVs and Lithium Batteries
My replies to article cited by an “electrical engineer with 34 yrs experience”. https://returntonow.net/2021/02/09/the-spiraling-environmental-costs-of-lithium-batteries-could-rival-fossil-fuel/ << Ned Goldston Thanks for the link to the article. The article is written with false information (e.g. li-Ion batteries cannot be recycled), the reference used is at least 8 years out of date, and the most telling is the last
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