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New batteries news - Timelord - 3 March 2012
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/liquid-battery-could-charge-green-energy-003943589.html
RE: New batteries news - NorthernRaider - 3 March 2012
One of the weays my friends in the wind farm industry are looking into storing energy from turbines so we dont have the use it or lose it problem is to just use the turbines to split water into hydrogen and oxygen we we can then clean burn on demand to drive generators.
RE: New batteries news - Skean Dhude - 3 March 2012
Technology will resolve all our issues if allowed to.
All advances improve on what we have now and many other technologies can use it. We need to find a way to add solar panels to our houses and store that, this is that way, then feed back excess to the grid for those that don't.As it grows then we can wean off big power stations. Personally, I think fusion power is the way and anyone who wants to reduce it goes solar. Wind power is only good for politicians but nobody else has that much wind.
RE: New batteries news - Skvez - 5 March 2012
Liquid Metal batteries might be a notable technology improvement unfortunately no units are given to assess this new technology.
Ideally we'd want to see kWh/Litre, kWh/m^3, cycle efficiency (electricity to battery power and back to electricity again) and cycle life to compare with something like LiPo (Lithium Polymer).
Splitting water into Hydrogen and Oxygen and then burning the Hydrogen is not very cycle efficient (by present technology) but it's still better than throwing excess power away.
Nuclear Fusion is still a big lab experiment, it's not been sustained for a useful amount of time and still requires more energy into the containment electromagnets than is extracted.