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MARCH 2, 2023

Researchers led by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have extended the capacity and duration of sodium-aluminum batteries. The new sodium-based molten salt battery uses two distinct reactions. The team previously reported a neutral molten salt reaction.

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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. Scientists have been looking for solutions in gravity energy storage , thermal or geothermal storage , and also molten-salt batteries.

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APRIL 18, 2019

Illustration of the process to restore lithium ions to degraded NMC cathodes using eutectic molten salts at ambient pressure. The team is tuning this process so that it can be used to recycle any type of cathode materials used in lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. The work was published in Advanced Energy Materials.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 14, 2024

Having crossed some technical hurdles, low cost sodium batteries are hurtling towards the market for grid energy storage, EVs, and more. The post Sodium Batteries Challenge Lithium-Ion On Cost, Supply Chain appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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JUNE 4, 2021

The Natrium technology has a 345MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt-based integrated energy storage system that will provide clean, flexible energy and stability for the grid. TerraPower and PacifiCorp announced efforts to advance a Natrium reactor demonstration project at a retiring coal plant in Wyoming.

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MARCH 5, 2015

Molten salt batteries still account for a majority of installations by energy capacity, because of NGK Insulators’ early lead, but are no longer the technology of choice, according to Lux. Demand management and renewable connected systems are driving the primary grid storage applications.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The winning concepts were: A molten air battery that uses a molten salt electrolyte at elevated temperature from Professor Stuart Licht at George Washington University. The Open Innovation Contest, initiated by BASF at the beginning of February, aims to find ideas for the storage of energy from renewable energy sources.

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