Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2023
The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. The new sodium-based molten salt battery uses two distinct reactions. of peak charge capacity.
Cars That Think
APRIL 15, 2022
As the pressure to decarbonize electricity grids mounts, so does the need to have long-term storage options for power generated from renewables. While rechargeable batteries are the solution of choice for consumer-level use, they are impractical for grid-scale consideration.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 20, 2024
The European Union plans to begin charging shippers for carbon emissions this year. Researchers are considering three different types: a lead-cooled fast reactor, a uranium-fueled, helium-gas-cooled reactor, and a molten-salt-cooled reactor, shown here [below, at bottom]. One is a thorium-fueled molten-salt reactor.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
Professor Donald Sadoway and colleagues have already started a company, Ambri (initially Liquid Metal Battery Corporation), to produce electrical-grid-scale liquid batteries, which comprise layers of molten material which automatically separate due to their differing densities. Earlier post.). —Wang et al. Burke, Dane A.
Setec Powerr
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
And with the popularity of electric vehicles, the grid is under more and more pressure, so the demand for energy storage is growing. Technologies include energy storage with molten salt and liquid air or cryogenic storage. But feasibility in today’s grid applications requires the application of the latest technologies.
Cars That Think
JUNE 12, 2023
Energy storage has two main factors—how fast it can be charged and discharged (the spigot) and how much total energy it can hold (the bathtub). The startup Kyoto Group , based in the Netherlands, is targeting this industrial use of heat with their thermal storage system, which stores energy in the form of molten salt.
Baua Electric
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Renewable energy integration involves the incorporation of renewable energy sources into existing energy systems, such as electrical grids or heating systems. Because they usually sit for a long period of time, their charging can be shifted to periods when either solar generation is high or electricity prices are low.
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