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TLDR: first deployment of Form Energy's "aqueous air" grid battery, 1 megawatt, 150 megawatt hour, no tech details. MIT professor founder, backed by Bill Gates
by markvdb 6y ago
TLDR: first deployment of Form Energy's "aqueous air" grid battery, 1 megawatt, 150 megawatt hour, no tech details.
MIT professor founder, backed by Bill Gates amongst others.
According to MIT tech review [0] , their main line of research is an "air-breathing aqueous sulfur flow battery".
- impostervt 6y agoYa, it's basically a press release. Does the solution exist or are they going to be developing it as they go? What's it look like?
- xchaotic 6y agoExactly, is it chemistry based (iron oxide) or pumping water?
- gwicks56 6y agoAccording to their website[1], this is the extent of what they have to say about their technology: The Technology Form Energy has identified and is developing a novel approach that is low-cost, safe, and scalable. This battery would allow for a 100% renewable, carbon free grid. Super useful [1]" https://formenergy.com/about/ https://formenergy.com/about/
- 1958325146 6y agoIt looks like an iron-based chemistry: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20200136153.PGNR http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=....
- 1958325146 6y agoSorry, you have to append a period to a URL to make it work. HN does not believe in URLs that end in periods, apparently.