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I can't imagine this is more mature then lithium ion batteries, or traditional batteries in general. They are everywhere in my apartment but afaik flow batterie
by LeanderK 4y ago
I can't imagine this is more mature then lithium ion batteries, or traditional batteries in general. They are everywhere in my apartment but afaik flow batteries are not used yet.
- neltnerb 4y agoI agree, especially on the industrial design and manufacturing side. The concept has exited for ages, and I love decoupling power and energy density for all kinds of reasons (though I'm sure standard batteries are just tuned perfectly enough in large facilities that it's no big difference). But the big cost reductions don't happen because an idea is mature, they occur because they're being produced at large enough scale that lots of people have spent time and energy on all of the thousand tiny things that individually reduce the cost. The stuff in this article is borderline just industrial design and they're talking a 3x change in footprint? There has to be lots of other low hanging fruit... we're still improving lithium battery electrodes and each improvement really does improve them. The same will be true for flow batteries if they ever get made at enough scale.