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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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Discharge mode is shown; the arrows are reversed for electrolytic/charge mode. Furthermore, this electrode permits higher charging voltages by suppressing the parasitic water-splitting reactions. Cell schematic. AQDSH 2 refers to the reduced form of AQDS. Huskinson et al. Click to enlarge. —ARPA-E Program Director John Lemmon.

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How Smart EV Charging Will Help Promote Renewable Power Generation

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But, if householders and businesses can be flexible about when they charge their EVs, then they can help to balance the grid and support renewable power generation. With grids increasingly powered by renewables, electrical demand has to follow supply. The flexibility of controlled EV charging. How EVs can help balance the grid.

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New cathodes for low-temperature solid-oxide fuel cells

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As reported in a paper in the Journal of Power Sources , the fuel cell performance of the SOFCs with an optimized ALD YSZ surface treatment is close to that of SOFCs with porous Pt, which is known as the best performing catalyst in the low-temperature regime (250–450 °C). Earlier post.).

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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. —Philippe Boisseau, President Total Gas & Power.

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New $30M ARPA-E program to develop new solar conversion and storage technologies; targeting higher solar penetration in mix

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Schematic comparing the cost and dispatchability of PV to CSP with thermal storage. The “PV+Storage” box includes the high cost of electrical storage for PV. The FOCUS Program target zone for electricity generation is indicated. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge.

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Mad Power thoughts

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It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. This was plain wrong.

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MIT team calls initial performance results of magnesium-antimony liquid metal battery “promising”

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Sadoway and Bradwell, along with Dr. Luis Ortiz, are also founders of Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications. During charging, Mg is electrochemically extracted from the Mg?Sb

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