China develops iron battery 80 times cheaper than lithium that can last 16 years. It provides a budget-friendly, high-endurance answer for the world’s massive energy storage needs.
sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
China's new iron battery hits 99.4 percent efficiency over 6000 cycles
A research team at the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has advanced "all-iron" flow battery technology.Mrigakshi Dixit (Interesting Engineering)
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is e.g. in place in Sacramaneto, CA with a storage of 2 GWh and a maximum power of 200 MW.
For grid-storage durability and ovrerall cost efficiency are more important than energy density so I expect redox flow batteries to overtake lithium ion based batteries there.
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in reply to diykeyboards • • •Ehh I follow the battery news well enough to know it's different this time.
The way you can tell is that it isn't coming from the MIT press release department.
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in reply to TropicalDingdong • • •Honestly, it's a good time for batteries and solar panels.
I think we're just going to let out current infrastructure rot out from under us and while house generators run on gas.
I mean, we could modernize our infrastructure, but we can barely keep bridges standing and I'm not sure if utilities are communism or not. I suspect that they are.
The lithium iron phosphate is already pretty impressive, just a bit pricey.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Weird how China is always inventing things that already exist.
It's almost like all they do is copy others.
These types of batteries have been in use for a while they're just not that common as they take up a LOT of space, and there are better options that use less space.
zergtoshi
in reply to HiTekRedNek • • •That would reduce maintenance on iron redox flow batteries sigificantly if true.
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I'm starting to see that China may have a large presence on lemmy. It would make sense with the .ml groups. You can see a lot of pro China stuff here plus lemmy is a generator against things like AI which benefits China.
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I'm sure this one won't be bullshit and will come into production tomorrow, right?
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Sodium ion batteries are already hitting production.
Iron flow and vanadium redox batteries also already exist in the real world.
Grid and residential battery installations are happening at a rapidly accelerating pace.
Lithium ion battery prices have dropped something like 90% over the last 15 years.
Battery technology is improving at dramatic rate, both lithium ion and non lithium ion solutions.