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No, it's a reflow battery - meaning you can make the capacity arbitrarily large (literally you have a tank of one redox, a tank of another). Hopefully this will
by jarvist 12y ago
No, it's a reflow battery - meaning you can make the capacity arbitrarily large (literally you have a tank of one redox, a tank of another). Hopefully this will make it much cheaper for large capacities.
Yes, it's heavy for the capacity, but this does not matter for fixed installations.
Number of charge cycles & recycle-ability makes an enormous difference to the balance of systems cost for a battery.
- shabble 12y agoI wonder how stable the "charged" state solution is? Could you charge it up in one location, and truck/ship/pump it somewhere else for consumption? Imagine refitting crude oil supertankers to handle the acidity and ship solar power from some remote coastal desert to more useful places. Other than the headmelting price of Va, it could conceivably be cheaper than building transmission lines & their associated resistance losses. (I'm probably missing some key fact of why this wouldn't work. But it's a nice idea)
- ScottBurson 12y agoThat would be so much less efficient than transporting hydrocarbon fuels as to be pointless.