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Project CaSino investigating calcium-sulfur batteries

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Lithium is a stellar element for an electrochemical cell in many ways—it combines a high power storage capacity and cell voltage with fast ion migration. From the consortium, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and its Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) play a pioneering role in the field of research on calcium batteries.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Finally there may be new energy storage that requires less lithium. Under some reasonable assumptions, batteries cast off from fully electrified transportation can provide about one half day of our total power consumption including electrified transportation. February 17, 2009 9:11 am Link Smart grid great Dumb govt.

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