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A Carbon-Air Battery as a Next-Gen Energy Storage System
- reacharavindh 5y agoIf I may apply a “computer Engineer’s way of thinking” to the renewable power storage problem, it looks like data and caching. Our ideal solution may be a tiered setup such as - renewable energy sources -> Supercapacitors(high throughput, low capacity) -> Lithium-ion (expensive, quick discharge, medium capacity) -> molten salt or hydro(pumping up water to be brought down later to generate electricity), or produce green hydrogen, or carbon-air battery. All of latter ones are high scale, high volume, lower efficiency, lower discharge speed solutions. It is similar to how computers store the data needed by CPUs in processor cache, DRAM, SSDs, cheap hard drives, and cloud storage.