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

Green Car Congress

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones. Click to enlarge.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

As for the middle-class Extinction Rebellion poseurs and their road-closing chums from Insult Britain, sorry Insulate Britain, they are basing their apocalyptic predictions of ‘catastrophe’ and billions of deaths on gross exaggerations. This was plain wrong. Gas is the only answer. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

It’s called Electric Island. You’re not going to be able to pull a Class 8 truck up to a consumer charging station and charge it towing the trailer. Iron phosphate batteries are great because they’re durable, they’re cheap. It won’t work. What happens when we plug in 1.2-megawatt megawatt chargers?

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