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Ah right, so they’re limiting the tank size and volume of the electrolyte to make the comparison. And selling it as a closed system similar to a normal battery.
by Brakenshire 8y ago
Ah right, so they’re limiting the tank size and volume of the electrolyte to make the comparison. And selling it as a closed system similar to a normal battery.
- dragontamer 8y agoYeah. A "Flow" Battery's got the advantage of scale. To scale a flow battery, all you gotta do is build a bigger tank. A Lithium Ion battery requires you to build complex circuitry and chemicals throughout the whole battery. In many ways, Lithium Ion batteries are like Solid State Drives: You got complex circuitry through and through. While Flow batteries are more like a Tape Drive: The drive is way more expensive to make, but "tape" (ie: Tank) is so cheap that the economics of energy storage eventually wins out.