Posted on 07/26/2021 12:42:14 PM PDT by Red Badger
I am all for it. Anything that can increase large scale energy storage is helpful, and I don’t have to be a stinking greenie virtue signaler to benefit from it.
Just burn coal.
and if it catches fire, it’ll be epic...
“Converting back and forth between iron and rust allows the energy that is stored in the battery to be stored longer than conventional batteries.”
Who knew, we had junk yards all across the US making electricity all this time.
Sure, put one in my garage and when it’s charged by the sun I’ll use it to offset electric costs - IF it’s cost efficient
100 hours without wattage context is useless. 1 megawatt without a time context is useless. Do they actually make batteries?
More fanfare about a non existent problem.
AGM batteries already deliver this level of efficiency and cost.
I like it, too. But I want it at a smaller scale so I can buy one or two for my house. Anytime the green energy is done by utilities there’s always a lot of palm greasing and inefficiencies and bureaucratic red tape.
Yep, just toss your junk into the kiddie/dog pool and fill with magic solutions and you get that they got.
what do they use for anode and cathode material?
In my opinion, any “battery” that uses oxygen, from the atmosphere, is NOT a battery.
This thing is going to pollute, if it works at all.
You noticed that as well.
They essentially make no claims regarding supplying useful amounts of power in any.
“one that can feed electricity to the grid for approximately 100 hours”
That is why one should suspect that this story is fake. Time without power is meaningless nonsense. Notice that your electric bill uses Kilowatt Hours. A 9volt battery could feed energy back to the grid for 100hours if the current was low enough. Of course it would contribute nothing of value.
Those who make false claims are often not even bright enough to use the proper terms.
My thought exactly. There is a substance called thermite, that once ignited, can burn through just about anything.
Red iron oxide -325 mesh three parts by weight
Finely divided aluminum metal -325 mesh, one part by weight
This compound might not generate much electricity, but man, the heat it can put out.
And neither carbon dioxide nor water will put it out before it is all consumed.
LOL, yes. For me, that is a set point as well.
I am not in the LEAST interested in getting solar panels on my roof that feed power back into the grid.
If I ever get solar panels, they will be charging my OWN batteries.
And, as Tell It Right accurately points out, there is all the bureaucratic BS associated with the power companies. If they ball it up, when things happen, you will STILL be one of those 102,328 customers currently without power.
I am not at all against them doing it-if they stupidly go down the same road Texas did, they SHOULD have a way to store energy from their stupid “renewables” purchased with government subsidies, but of course...these are subject to the same stupidity.
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