Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. IEEE Spectrum did its best to cover those developments, and these were the stories that our readers liked best.

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Hydrogen Molten Salt Green China 105

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.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

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. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MIT Molten Salt Batteries Battery 301

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. trough with molten salt system, this technology can reduce. Laboratory, Grid.

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