One of these outfits is installing its technology in California now and these kind of flow batteries might be common for grid storage and appear to make economic sense. It is economics, not technology that picks winners and losers, the tech used will depend on its application and these might make sense for grid scale storage and sodium, or even zinc-based batteries might make sense for home solar or as energy buffers at EV recharge stations. The way I see it there are three major markets for batteries, transport, grid storage and solar/wind home storage and all three might require a several technologies in each application. It seems flow batteries could appear pretty quickly and can be modularized for grid storage applications.
Why Salt Water may be the Future of Batteries
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Why Salt Water may be the Future of Batteries. The first 100 people to use code UNDECIDED at the link below will get 60% off of Incogni:
https://incogni.com/undecided There’s no shortage of solutions to the world’s need for renewable energy storage, but there is a shortage of accessible and cheap resources to use for those solutions. Lithium and vanadium aren't limitless, so what about regular, run-of-the-mill salt? Redox flow batteries, or RFBs, can exploit the abundance of elements like sodium and iron. One U.S. company already has salt water batteries ready to go, with at least two others developing iron flow variations built to effectively run on rust. They promise to last longer and be far cheaper than the competition. So, what happens if we go with the flow?